Read-alikes

Books Like Gild

Gild is captive / captor, villain love interest & morally grey — steamy (3/5), first-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

Auren is gold-touched by King Midas — the man who rescued her from poverty and placed her on a pedestal inside a gilded palace in the frozen kingdom of Highbell. When war arrives and a dangerous deal is struck, Auren is torn from her cage and forced to confront the truth: her sanctuary may always have been a prison, and the king she loves may not be who she believed. A dark fantasy retelling of the King Midas myth told from the perspective of his most prized possession.