Goldfinch

The Plated Prisoner, Book 6

De: Raven Kennedy

Narrado por: Bella Sanby, Owen Hall

Brought to you by Penguin.

AUREN'S STORY ISN'T OVER YET.

SHE WILL FLY. SHE WILL SOAR.

One king caged my body.

Another has caged my mind.

War has broken out between Annwyn and Orea, though that’s not the only battle being waged.

There’s a fight inside me, and it’s one I’m determined to win, no matter how much they try to strip me down and hollow me out.

Yet they’ve forgotten one thing. The ancient magic of the pair bond. One can never truly be lost when two souls are already bound.

Because Slade and I? We are connected by more than just fated magic, and we will always find each other.

In any life.

The fae king is trying to destroy me. My heritage. My memory. But what he hasn’t realized is this: gold bends, but stone breaks.

And a Goldfinch does not fall.

It flies.

©2024 Raven Kennedy (P)2024 Penguin Audio

what a beautiful end to a brutal journey

wow this was quite the ride! such a tragic story, cruel worlds but a beautiful ending.
I don't know how to describe this one without spoilers so I will just say that I had all rainbow of emotions with this one. the road was bumpy, and at one point I got super angry at Raven but I pushed through and it was worth it.
I feel I need a novella/long epilog about Ryett because I need closer, he deserves a happy ending

Nice magic system , took me by surprise

Contemplated on reading the book myself, the narrator was not my cup of tea. Really did not like the actress’s portrayal of male characters.

amazing

i loved every moment of it! i have to admit it was kinda hard to get use to the narrators but overall they did a magnificent job this story was delightful to listen. thank you for another great story to remember!

Slade and Auren 🥹

Beautiful Ending 😩❤️
I’ll miss these two so much . I enjoyed everything about this. Chapter 59 and 60 nearly ripped my heart out ❤️

Thank you Raven for this amazing ending!

This book had me in tears. Such an amazing twist!! It will forever be on my heart.

To the voice actors, thanks for bringing this amazing book to life!

Beautiful story...horrible performance

A fantastic ending to one of my favorite series. Was it perfectly written? No! Did it make me feel all kind of feelings? Absolutely!
I could feel the writers love for this story, and sometimes with the last book of a series, thats not the case.
A lot of new characters wete introduced, wich is a really bad choise from the writer. But the performance was sadly, just like the previous book, horrible.
This voice actress should never do a book again. Instead of making the male characters sexy, she succeeded in making them sound like a scary clown. So all the spicy scenes went out like a flame.

So Disappointing

This series should’ve been a trilogy, you could even read up to book 3 and have a decent story. But no, it kept going for 3 more books, each longer and more pointless. I was rage reading when I got to this final book and was hoping to at least get a satisfying resolution, but no, the way things ended was infuriating to say the least.
How can a book this long manage to both rush things and also leave so many things unfinished?
This is such a bad book and a bad series. You can tell the author just went off the rails for the sake of extending a series, throwing an interesting premise to the trash.
*Spoilers ahead*
The things that made me rage about this book:
Auren and Slade are not reunited until almost half this book, making their story loose steam and relevance.
The annoying memory loss of Auren was so pointless, she recovers them in an instant just by being next to Slade. So, why introduce that drama in the first place?
Slade suddenly manifesting a dragon out of nowhere was also so unnecessary, the thing only lives for like two hours.
I understand Slade needing to find Auren, but him leaving in the middle of war and such high risk to his people when he’s the most powerful person, just doesn’t make sense. It’s out of character for him and incredibly selfish.
The villains (the fae king and Slade’s father) were so underwhelming and killed off so easily. And queen Kaila just seems to get away unscathed and we never know what will be of her and her ambition and ruthlessness.
Which leads me to the most infuriating thing about this book: We’ve been made to care for Orea, it’s people and politics for 6 books but here it’s just left to the side and un concluded. The whole ensamble of main characters are conveniently transported to Anwyn and who cares what happens in Orea.
Ryatt was done so dirty, he finally gets to shine as himself, gets abandoned by his king and brother with the task of leading his army in the coming war, and against all odds pulls it off and leads Orea to victory, only for him to end up depressed and as a nobody in Anwyn and we’re supposed to just shrug it off, just awful.
I was hoping to see Auren and Slade return to Orea and join the others in the war with the fae and display their mighty powers to defeat them, but no, their story ended being so underwhelming.