Spotlight: The Gilded King by Josie Jaffrey

In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well.
Julia is stuck within its walls. She serves the nobility from a distance until she meets Lucas, who believes in fairytales that her world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, not her castle, and she’d escape into the trees if she didn’t know that contamination and death awaited humanity outside.
But not everyone in the Blue is human, and not everyone can be contained.
Beyond the city’s boundaries, in the wild forests of the Red, Cameron has precious little humanity left to lose. As he searches for a lost queen, he finds an enemy rising that he thought long dead. An enemy that the humans have forgotten how to fight.
One way or another, the walls of the Blue are going to come down. The only question is what side you’ll be on when they do.
Praise for The Gilded King
I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this book, and once I started reading it I couldn’t put it down.
Jordann, ‘THE GILDED KING | 5 STAR REVIEW’, The Book Blog Life, 11/06/2018
This book was definitely not what I was expecting, and I was really pleasantly surprised by it!
Connie, ‘Book Review: The Gilded King’, Connie Reads, 10/10/2019
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You can check out our previous interviews here:
- Sharleen Nelson, author of The Time Tourists [2]
- D. Wallace Peach, author of the Shattered Sea duology [2]
- Jacob Klop, author of Crooked Souls
- H.L. Walsh, author of From Men and Angels [2]
- G.M. Nair, author of Duckett and Dyer: Dicks for Hire