Glow

By: Raven Kennedy

Narrated by: Bella Sanby, Owen Hall

Brought to you by Penguin.

THE TIKTOK FANTASY SENSATION THAT'S SOLD OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES, PERFECT FOR FANS OF SARAH J. MAAS AND JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT

'It scares me - what I did that night. Because I don't know my own power . . . But that's been the problem all along, hasn't it?'

My life has been shaped and controlled by the greed of others, but that ends now.

I have burned down the court of King Midas and from those flames, I will rise and wield my own power.

The problem is, when you turn against a King - everyone turns against you.

But with Slade by my side we will fight the monarchs that come for us. And if we need to become the villains, then so be it.

Because as long as I live in this world, I won't be used again.

I must be strong. I must be undefeatable. I will shine like the sun - and blind our enemies . . .

© Raven Kennedy 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

Critic reviews

Praise for The Plated Prisoner Series

This series has stolen my heart, my breath, my regard for anything else. I've never been so immersed in a story before-never read characters that have felt so real. I've cried, laughed, screamed, thrown my kindle across the room, picked it up again, swooned . . . These characters, this WORLD . . . it's everything. Raven has written a story for the ages, destined to go down as one of the epics

Raven writes with a magic that comes to life on the page. Every single word gleams like gold

This is one of those series that started off phenomenal, and only gets better with every subsequent book.

Get ready to be enthralled from the first word, and begging for more by the last. Raven Kennedy crafts an astonishing world that's filled with captivating characters and a story you won't be able to put down

This series is amazing and I can't recommend it enough. It is one of the best New Adult Fantasy books out there.

TEN GILDED STARS! Remarkably original . . .and the prose, people . . . gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous

An emotional rollercoaster

What I've enjoyed so far about this series is how it's a metaphor about real, emotional issues

I devoured [the] first book and it ended on such a nice cliff-hanger that I am thirsting for the next one

Awful narration

Awful narration. The narrator is always if a stuffed nose. It is really annoying.

Very old style audio

I loved the story, it has it’s small shortcomings but I am not quite sure it is the story itself or the effect of the voices used. These type of audio is why I was not listening to audiobooks in the past. The voices for all females “sounded old” like my grandmother. One will find it hard to enjoy the spice… it sounds disgusting and definitely not sensual. Also, when any of the voices tried to sound as the opposite sex in dialogues… no, better keep your regular tone.

Runny nose

Once again the female sounds like she is TOO SICK. Its actually infuriating. Why?? Her other works (no plated prisoner) she’s fine. This is awful

amazing

i love this book and series very much very interesting and thrilling. i cant wait to listen to the rest of it

Where’s the plot?

Oh my… this was an unnecessary long book.

Going into this series I had heard a lot of good things. This has been on my tbr forever and I finally was in the mood for this series. Unfortunately, I don’t see the hype. This has been long and dragged out in my opinion. I’m struggling a lot with the pace and I feel like this could have been a trilogy.

With Glow I was excited and hopeful this was gonna be the turning point for me to truly get obsessed and devour this series. I felt like Gleam ended on a very exciting note, but Glow did not deliver on the plot for me. Yes, Slade is fine. A great mmc and a male that we love to see on the page. He’s unapologetically fierce and doesn’t care about consequences when in comes to his love for Auren. He’s got a filthy mouth and we do love that. But plot wise, I need more. The pace is off. I felt like nothing happened until the 85% mark. And that’s too many pages read with bland stuff happening… or lack there of, for me to enjoy the positives of this series like I want to.

The best part of this book for me was the banter and tension between Os and Rissa. I wanted more pov’s from them. There has been different pov’s in this series, and that’s fine. But now I’m staring to find them boring and inconsequential. I zone out with some of the pov’s and I don’t want to do that but there’s nothing holding my attention.

I feel like there has been character development, for both Auren and Slade, which is good. But now I need for the plot and storyline to really get in line. I need there to be a clear goal or a direction because now I honestly don’t see the point of continuing this series if I don’t have an inkling of where this is going.

Glow, as Gleam, ended on a cliffhanger. I was excited about the ending of Gleam, but I can’t say the same of Glow. I’m tired. I just want this to end. I think I need a break before I continue this series. I need something epic to happen, like all the political intrigues turn into an epic war so all the books make sense! Why is there 6 books?

Pretty please let the final two installments have great pace, and an intriguing, compelling and entertaining storyline which captures my attention and keeps it!