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Gold Spice Level and Content Notes

By Raven Kennedy. Last checked .

Spice level

3/5

Open door

“It includes explicit romance, mature language, violence, death, animal cruelty, past trauma, and grief.”

Source: Raven Kennedy's site, checked Oct 19, 2026. We place that description on the FaeShelf 0 to 5 spice scale.

Read it or skip it

Read it if

  • You want an open door romance with one or more explicit scenes (FaeShelf spice 3/5, from Raven Kennedy's note).
  • You want fae, as the publisher's description puts it.
  • You have read The Plated Prisoner up to book 4.

Skip it if

  • You want romance without explicit sex (FaeShelf spice 3/5, from Raven Kennedy's note).
  • You want to avoid violence on the page (listed by Raven Kennedy's site).
  • You have not read Gild yet: start there.

Content notes

  • Violence: Violence and animal cruelty. “It includes explicit romance, mature language, violence, death, animal cruelty, past trauma, and grief.” (Raven Kennedy's site)
  • Death: Death and grief. “It includes explicit romance, mature language, violence, death, animal cruelty, past trauma, and grief.” (Raven Kennedy's site)
  • Strong language: Mature language. “It includes explicit romance, mature language, violence, death, animal cruelty, past trauma, and grief.” (Raven Kennedy's site)

A book missing from this list is not guaranteed to be free of that content.

Tropes and creatures

Only tags the publisher’s own description names, with its wording.

  • Fae“Annwyn. The realm of the fae.” (source)

Same series: The Plated Prisoner

Read Glow first. The next book is Goldfinch.

How we checked this

This page draws on 3 source pages, each linked next to the fact it supports, last checked on Oct 19, 2026. Spice comes only from a named review or the author’s or publisher’s own content notes, quoted as published and placed on our 0 to 5 scale; reader shelves and fan sites are not used. Ratings change daily, so the Goodreads figure is a dated snapshot. Read more about our sources, or browse all books.