There is no quirk as such that Kennedy follows whole writing, however, sometimes she tends to listen to music to get her mood right. And when things begin to get boring, she tries to use different hours of the day, even night, to write so that she can have a change of mood. warnings: mentions of emotional manipulation, physical and psychological abuse, and drug consumption. To summarise, out of 66+1 chapters the side characters povs take up a whole 9 of them and none of them offer anything of relevance to the plot or progression of the story in the form presented for this book. They may shed a little light on possible further paths for the next book but to be honest, to finally go through with all those opened and continuously ignored plotlines, the finale of the series would need to have twice the size of Glow and probably still feel unfinished. Do I kind of expect RK to announce more books or butcher the series completely based on this? Absolutely, I do. I was pretty late to the party and started reading the Plated Prisoner Series only a few days prior to the release of Glow, so I was able to binge through them all, ending the journey with Glow itself. And I will end my journey with Glow even though there might be more to come. This is not going to be a "OMG SO GOOD!!" review but in-depth discussion on why this book should never have been published in this form, at all. I'll provide a short review first and then dive into it later, so only read that second part if you don't care about spoilers.

Everything is reaching its crescendo. I cannot wait for the fifth book. I need someone to put me into sleep paralysis until the next book is released because how am I supposed to move on.. I was nothing but a road to Midas. A means to get to where he wanted to go, and I paved that path in gold." The second volume of this popular series is called ‘Reese’. It was also published as a Kindle book in 2020. This novel opens by mentioning that Reese witnessed something 5 years that she should not have and got caught. Since then, she has been living as a shapeshifted animal and feels trapped. But maybe, it’s simply the fact that the person I love is willing to destroy the world to protect me. And that is its own kind of power that not even this enclosure can drain away. So long as we’re together, everything is okay. Because I will fight for him, and he will kill for me, and if we need to be the villains, then so be it. I pause, ears straining, but all I hear are faint sounds from the city below and the constant draw of the waterfall at the base of the mountain.

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For so long, I’ve swallowed my own tongue. I’ve tamped down every emotion, careful to ride every tide in the hopes that I don’t become submerged. I won’t allow another storm to touch Auren. She has been flooded and wrung out, left to take the barrage without shelter. But so long as I’m here, I will be her shelter. For ten years, I've lived in a gilded cage inside King Midas's golden castle. But one night changed everything. Kennedy takes great pride in being a California girl. She was born and brought up there and developed a love for books at an early age. This reading habit pushed her to create interesting worlds through her imagination or her creative mind. Kennedy loves dark chocolate and tea. She is often seen consuming these while binge-watching her favorite shows on TV. As she meets a few soldiers of the Fourth’s army, Auren changes more and more. She gains confidence and realizes that not everyone is trying to take advantage of her or abuse her. For the first time in forever, she is treated as a human being. She is a captive, but she is not in a cage, nor is she insulted or treated like an object of a whore. There is definitely a “found family” vibe there and I adored it! I can’t wait to see more of her with Keg, Judd, Lu, and Osrik.

Commander Rip (yes, that’s really how they call him) reminded me of Rhysand in ACOMAF a lot! The way he’s portrayed as a big bad villain, but was actually respectful and even kinda sweet, and the way he questioned and pushed Auren even though she didn’t like it, just so she could realize exactly how badly Midas treated her, and how much more she could be. Rip just kept on challenging her and he is the main reason she started to see things more clearly and she realized that she didn’t need to spend her life in a cage to be protected from the world if she was strong enough to protect herself. As I said… Big Rhysand vibes here, but I’m not complaining at all, and Auren’s growth also reminded me of Feyre’s. I guess I could also compare their dynamic to Poppy and Casteel’s… Commander Rip can get it anytime he wants. His name is dumb af tho and I don't claim that name, but he can still get it. The only tiny light in this series for me is him. RK is slowly turning me into a hulking mad woman. all the things that made this series not so stellar were starting to get on my nerves. 😑

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GLOW resumes right from the explosive ending of Gleam and begins in a shroud of extreme dread within the first quarter of the book that will keep a tight hold on your heart. I said in my review of the first book that there was room for great development in Auren’s character, and we can already see it happen in this second book. The pace is slower, and while Auren and the Fourth’s army are traveling, most of the book happens in the same place, allowing the author to really focus on the character growth in this sequel. So there could be 100 more lines in which is claimed that there is power or calm in submission - if the other part of that encounter doesn't understand consent, it's nothing but garbage recounted over and over again to make it seem okay. It's not. It's harmful and disgusting. And it's an offence to all those other authors managing to actually pull powerful submission off. End of story.