{"id":152579,"date":"2021-09-30T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=152579"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T01:27:03","slug":"review-the-gilded-cage-by-lynette-noni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2021\/09\/30\/review-the-gilded-cage-by-lynette-noni\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: The Gilded Cage by Lynette Noni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lynette Noni is trying to kill me, call the police! And there you have it. My review of The Gilded Cage<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Lynette Noni \u2014 available now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, is that not enough information for you? Would you perhaps like to know some more things about the book?<\/p>\n\n\n

\"Lynette<\/a>

Lynette Noni (Photo by Lucy Bell).<\/p><\/div>\n

Okay, well I could start by saying that if you\u2019ve read The Prison Healer<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and you thought the follow up book in the series couldn\u2019t possibly be as wildly romantic, intensely suspenseful or emotionally devastating, then you are 100% mistaken! Not only is The Gilded Cage<\/em> a worthy sequel to The Prison Healer<\/em>, it also manages to up the ante. This book has aaaaaall of the emotions. It\u2019s fast paced, suspenseful, full of surprises, brimming with romance and heart-warming friendships and family drama and adventure and \u2026 literally everything. Whatever boxes you liked ticked when you read YA fantasy, I\u2019m fairly confident this book will tick them all with a dramatic flourish!<\/p>\n\n\n

Introducing some marvellous new characters and broadening the horizon of this addictive fantasy world, The Gilded Cage<\/em> sees main character Kiva Meriden plunged into a dangerous game of deceit in which she must figure out how to reconcile her family obligations and vengeance vendetta with the new friendships she has forged and the knowledge she has gained about her enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the death prison of Zalindov, Kiva\u2019s main objective was survival. Now that she is free, she finds herself up to her eyeballs in court intrigue and politics, plotting with her family and deceiving her loved ones \u2026 it\u2019s all incredibly heart-wrenching and fraught with so much delicious tension I was completely beside myself by the time I got to the end. Which brings me back to the fact Lynette Noni is trying to kill me. Truly, I almost did not survive the epic conclusion to The Gilded Cage<\/em>. It was pure agony and I loved every second. Bring on the next book!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By far and away one of my favourite YA fantasy series of the year, if you haven\u2019t yet read The Prison Healer<\/em>, I strongly urge you to dive in. And if you have read The Prison Healer<\/em> then I\u2019m preaching to the choir and I\u2019m sure you will be as desperate to get your hands on The Gilded Cage<\/em> as I was. Enjoy!! It\u2019s a wild ride and when it\u2019s over you can join me in a world of pain as we anxiously await the next book. Fortunately, the wait will not be very long as the next book is rumoured to be coming as soon as June 2022. (Hooray!) The title has been announced as The Blood Traitor<\/em> and it will complete the trilogy, which is good news for my poor battered heart as it simply isn\u2019t strong enough to withstand another Lynette Noni cliffhanger ending. (Actually not true. I will gobble up as many cliffhanger endings as she cares to serve up, but will reserve my right to be a total drama queen about it every time.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty stars out of ten from me \u2014 can\u2019t get enough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014The Gilded Cage<\/a><\/em> by Lynette Noni (Penguin Books Australia) is out now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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