#gilded ones

[far-fields-official]

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[rhiannonwrites]

A nice way to get vitamin D and still not talk to people

[boombitchlovesthesun]

ok so im reading the gilded ones ¡spoliers coming! and Deka just goes. ‘oh i died’ tf girl. Four phrases later ‘i died again’ the book 5 pages later ‘number of deaths nine, but she’s still kicking’. 

OH and the purity test, we love the purity test. No im not going to elaborate.

I haven’t been so hooked on a book in years

[2021ya]

THE GILDED ONES

Deathless #1

by Namina Forna

(Delacorte, 2/9/21)

9781984848697

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The start of a bold and immersive West African-inspired, feminist fantasy series for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and Black Panther. In this world, girls are outcasts by blood and warriors by choice. Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity--and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death. Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki--near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire's greatest threat. Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she's ever known. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be--not even Deka herself.

[spookytunes]

Someone please explain why goddess cum tears were absolutely necessary in Gilded Ones

this is not an exaggeration they are literally saying that the goddesses cried “golden seed” and then it was stored for I joke you not like a thousand years and then this character just held on??? To the cum??? For a like thousand years??? And then she like same this one girl and was like hmm yep! This one (age 15!) is the one I’m giving the cry cum to! So she waited an extra like three four years and the was like ‘get in the lake!’ To this girl, and then PUT THE GOLDEN TEARS CUM IN THE LAKE AND IMPREGNATED THE GIRL WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER.

I’m losing it! I’m crashing out actually! Namina Forna was goddess golden tear cum the solution you needed? Was there no other option?

Anyways even putting the goddess golden tear cum seed into lake girl aside this book needs to stop telling me how to feel and start showing me things that make me feel and understand because I feel like I’m going on a guided tour of characters right now

[literary-tara]

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