Gilded – Extended Sampler
Category: Fiction
Author: Marissa Meyer
Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Sci-Fi, Teens & Young Adult
Publisher: Feiwel Friends
In Gilded, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairytale world with this haunting retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller's daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. Or so everyone believes. When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a…
Serilda is known for telling tales. One full moon night in winter, she meets the Erlking and the wild hunt. She tells him a story about gathering straw to spin straw into gold to escape. Now she is prisoner and must prove her ability or her father will die.
The story is fast paced, the characters are developed and it is written in the first person point of view. The author writes with a very descriptive style. It makes the reader feel a part of the story. Now I have to wait, impatiently, until November to read the rest and find out Serilda’s fate.
