Slade bumps into Midas outside. Midas says he wants Ravinger’s Commander to leave Fifth Kingdom and his people will leave a little village called Drollard. This is to get the Commander away from Auren.

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Midas learns that queen Malina is rebelling against him. He also learns that someone is pregnant with his child.Auren goes to see Rissa and Mist. Mist says Midas will officially recognise her baby as his, so it’ll be king or queen when it grows up. I was told that being confined was to keep the bad out . . . Until i realized it was about keeping me in Regret and revenge war inside of me, and I need to figure out a plan fast before I get tangled up in the schemes of kings and queens. I was told that being confined was to keep the bad out . . . Until I realized it was about keeping me in. Prince Niven is poisoned and dies. People blame King Ravinger because he tends to kill things with his powers. Auren goes to protect Slade. She calls Midas out for being a faker.

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One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand.” Auren goes to see Slade and they officially get together. She spends the night at camp and tells Slade everything. She says she’ll leave with him but only if they find Digby first. Love happens in all kinds of ways. Fast. Slow. In bits and pieces, or immediate. Filled with lust, one-sided longing, a snap realization never noticed before. Deeply. Thoroughly. Love is a whisper we didn’t hear or a sound that drums in our ears and drowns out everything else.”Midas holds a dinner for Queen Kaila from third Kingdom and her brother and his husband. Also Ravinger. Auren humiliates Midas and doesn’t obey him so he gets angry and makes Ravinger’s Commander carry Auren to the harp to play all night. Queen Kaila says she plans to marry Midas and is cool with Auren leaving. She’s going to kill Mist and the baby though.

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I've been a fan for a while but this book is in a league of its own. It was an emotional rollercoaster. Elizabeth Brown, author of Blood Crown Midas takes a drugged Auren to the ball. She ruins his opening speech by not turning the bannister into gold. He’s angry. She has burned through the drugs. The third novel in Tik Tok Fantasy Phenomenon - The Plated Prisoner Series. Auren must plans her revenge against one king while trying to resist falling for another . . .Auren showers everything in gold. She melts the entire castle, which she has gilded over her time there. She traps Midas in the wall and kills him. RIP. He’s sinister and powerful and entirely too seductive. I’ve learned my lesson with trusting manipulative kings, so why does my chest constrict every time he’s near? I need to tread carefully, or I’m at risk of losing much more than just my freedom. The problem with truths is that they’re like spices. Add a little, and it can enrich things, let you experience more layers. But if you pour out too much, it becomes unpalatable.” The world taught me that things could always be worse. I learned to always look up, to take what I could get, to settle. I became too blinded by my bright sides to see the truth. Sometimes, you look at the silver lining so much that you drift into denial about the clouds.” Auren learns that Midas is Bardon East, the thief lord she was trying to escape from years ago. He has worked his way up to king by deceiving everyone.