![]() Maia's birth mother, however, made a deal with the Gentle Lord when she died, promising that anyone who hurt her daughter would be severely punished. ![]() In this particular story, Maia is our orphan living with her stepmother and her two stepsisters who try desperately to please their mother. Gilded Ashes, fortunately, was a wonderfully refreshing take on this plot. There have been countless Cinderella retellings, so many, in fact, that I get quite tired of them. If you haven't read Cruel Beauty, you can definitely still enjoy Gilded Ashes, but you won't completely know or understand who the Gentle Lord is and why the characters keep making bargains with him, but I promise it's not crucial to understand and should not detract from your enjoyment of this novella. Gilded Ashes is a short, slightly over 100-page novella set in the same world as Cruel Beauty. I've read Rosamund Hodge's books Cruel Beauty and Crimson Bound, and although they weren't bad, I wasn't particularly blown away, and I'm sorry to say that I didn't enjoy them all that much. Because of this, I was a little hesitant to delve into Gilded Ashes, but the premise was intriguing, so I decided to give it a shot. ![]()
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