Marissa Meyer's done it again! The first 10 chapters had me hooked. The writing was engaging and I really liked the main character Serilda. I cannot wait to read this book once it's published!

As usual, Marissa Meyer has grabbed my full attention with another fantastic novel. These first 10 chapters are wonderful and I cannot wait for the rest of Gilded.

Thank you NetGalley, Marissa Meyer, and Feiwel & Friends for this ARC extended sampler in exchange for an honest review.

As a big fan of Marissa Meyer and her work, I was so excited for this new series and I can say that I haven't been let down yet! These first few chapters were good and intriguing to me and I can't wait for more!

I'm excited to read the whole thing in a few months!! This is a great start. Marissa Meyer writes fantastic fairytale retellings.

I got access to the extended sampler and so far so good! I can’t wait until this comes out and I can read the rest!!! I love marissa meyer and her work and this is no exception!

I have read most of what Marissa Meyer has written and I cannot wait to finish this one as well. I love the books she writes, especially her fairytale retellings. I can't wait to read what happens next!

Marissa Mayer couldn’t write a bad book even if she tried! I am still impatiently waiting for the rest of this book, dying to read the rest! Incredible!

It seems the publication of Gilded will mark yet another successful fairy tale retelling for Marissa Meyer! The first 10 chapters are whimsical and vibrant, and set up a promising story.

I adored The Lunar Chronicles so I was quite excited to see another retelling from Marissa Meyer! Although I felt like this sampler was slow, it was meant to world-build how Serilda ended up in Rumpelstiltskin. The story truly begins picking up once the stakes are raised: Serilda goes from being a simple girl who tells lies to one that got in a lie too big, she's now fighting for more than just her own life. I'm excited to see the rest of the story as the author has such a way to telling an atmospheric story. I look forward to seeing Serilda's character development as well as this snippet didn't yet cover it!

The first 10 chapters of this book is not enough because I am hooked on this book and need the rest of it. I love how dark and magical Gilded feels. Cannot wait for the release of Gilded so I can finish the story.

Another win for Marissa Meyer, Gilded takes the framework of a familiar "Once, Upon a Time" story and spins it in an entirely new way. Don't pick this up until you have time to spend, you'll want to binge-read this page-turner all the way to the end.

We all know Marissa Meyer is the master of the fairytale retellings. Well, she’s back at it—this time with a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek of the first ten chapters and this is what I can tell you about it.
Serilda is an eighteen-year-old girl who lives with her father in a small house on the outskirts of a remote town. During the day she helps at the school, but her greatest joy comes in spinning tales. She regales the schoolchildren, townspeople, even her father, with stories that grow continuously more fantastical.
One night, a noise from outside pulls Serilda from her bed. Before she knows it, she finds herself face-to-face with the Erlking who is in the middle of the wild hunt. Filled with fear, she does what comes naturally—she spins a tale and walks away unscathed. But the Erlking doesn’t take kindly to being made fool of and their next encounter may prove more than Serilda can lie her way out of.
Marissa Meyer has set up a deeply dark and dangerous world. Gilded promises to be another brilliant novel set in a world that is so familiar, yet so much more than we ever imagined and I can’t wait to read the rest!

*I received a sneak peak of Gilded from MacMillan Children’s Publishing and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

Marissa Meyer wrote one of my favorites series, The Lunar Chronicles and one of my least favorite trilogy Renegades, so I was a little wary when I started reading this sample.
But I shouldn’t have been because right in the first chapter I fell in love with Serilda and this amazing world Marissa created.

Serilda was touched by the god of lies and as thus love to spin tales and stories to the people of her village, just as it happens one day two moss maidens appears at her door in the middle of the night, they are being hunted by the wild hunt, a group of bloodthirsty warriors who thrives on killing animals and creatures alike.

Serilda help those two moss maidens by lying to the Erlking, the leader of the wild hunt and it was then that I knew Serilda would became one of my favorites characters, I love her energy and cleverness, she’s such a fun character to follow around, I can’t wait to know what she’s doing next, what tales she’s going to spin and how she’s going to get out of the stick situation she got herself in.

But while the character were good the best part of the sample was Marissa writing, it’s so very whimsical and magical that I was transported to this foreign land covered in snow and filled with magical creatures and mysterious forests.

Waiting to read the full book in November it’s going to be torture, I already know it’s going to became a favorite.

Thank you for the free preview ARC. I cannot wait for the book to come out, I have loved the series and this one does not disappoint. I would like to do my review after I read the book.

I liked the writing style of how easy it was to read because it actually read like a fairy tale to me. I found the story overall to be very compelling despite the fact that I do not know the tale of Rumpelstiltskin very well. I wish this were the full book because it ended on a cliffhanger but know that I will be awaiting for this title to be published in November!

I sadly could not get into this. I think because it's a fantasy and it's only a sampler, there wasn't a whole lot to draw my attention in to want to read more. The ending of the last chapter was a little bit of a cliffhanger that made me curious how the rest of the book would go, but it still wasn't enough to really reel me in.

I received a 10 chapter preview from NetGalley so I can only speak to the beginning. I could see this one becoming as popular as Cinder. I enjoyed this so far and can’t wait for the book to come out so I can’t finish it.

As a huge fan of Marissa Meyers retellings when I saw this extended sampler I had no choice but to read it and I'm so glad I did!
I love Rumpelstiltskin so this was already going to be an auto-buy but now I'm even more excited for it's release in November. I can't wait to read this in full!

Being a long-time fan of Marissa Meyer and her works, I'm really excited for her latest book, 'Gilded', a Rapunzel-retelling that takes place in the magical world of Serilda, and is told through a folklore-style of writing. All the thanks to Netgalley and Feiwel & Friends for providing me with the extended sampler. The setting and magic system seem well fleshed out, as far as I can tell from just the first few chapters, and I can't wait for the whole book to release in November!

Gilded Excerpt review

Marissa Meyer is an insta-buy for me. I love her characters, her world building, and her plotting. Gilded is no exception, it took me all of three chapters to be all-in for Serilda.

Serilda has been cursed/blessed by the god of lies with a silver tongue. She tells stories that enchant the children of her village. But one night, she tells the wrong sort of tale to the wrong sort of listener...the Erlking.

I love fairytale retellings, but I wasn’t sure how excited I was for a Rumplestilskin retelling. That is, until I watched Meyer’s Instagram announcement and found out that she’s made her main character into a storyteller. I am a sucker for writers writing about characters who tell stories.

One of my favorite parts of Meyer’s books is the way she weaves in romance without sacrificing plot or world building. I cannot wait to find out who the love interest is in this one! And what happens next!

I thought long and hard (for a whole five minutes) about requesting this excerpt. Not because I didn’t want to read it - I knew I did. I have been a Marissa Meyer fangirl since Cinder was first released and have read almost everything she has ever written. (I generally don’t read short stories and graphic novels...but might make an exception for her, let’s be honest.) No - this wasn’t an issue of if I would read or review it. It was an issue of me reading 10 chapters and then waiting three and a half months to read the rest. That’s almost 100 days. This is cruel. Please send me the rest, I beg of you.