{"id":9973,"date":"2018-11-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2023-11-07T07:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T13:19:44","slug":"the-merest-touch-of-gold-endangers-all-by-annie-sullivan-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9973","title":{"rendered":"The merest TOUCH OF GOLD endangers all, by Annie Sullivan (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookGold calls to her,
\nlike the Sirens<\/a> call sailors on her ship,
\nlike a friendly voice finally calls her from the castle…<\/p>\n

Dangerous waters ahead for the golden-hued daughter of King Midas<\/a>, restored from entrapment as a living gold statue to human form by a sacrifice that ages her father and keeps her locked away.<\/p>\n

Only she can retrieve his stolen treasure trove and save his life – but at what cost to herself and superstitious companions?<\/p>\n

This retelling of the King Midas story sails the seas, bringing Kora closer and closer to the stolen gold which could trap her once again.<\/p>\n

What have you wished for and ultimately were glad not to get?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0A Touch of Gold \/ Annie Sullivan. BlinkYA, 2018. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Locked away for years after sacrifice saved her from being a statue forever, golden-skinned Kora must travel foreign seas to save her father Midas’s kingdom.<\/p>\n

Her uncle will gladly marry Kora off in an alliance to bolster the kingdom, if anyone is brave enough to see if she’s inherited her father’s Touch.<\/p>\n

King Midas is slipping deeper into madness after his Touch-made treasures are stolen – can Kora bring them back before it’s too late?<\/p>\n

The gold hoard’s call to her is as alluring as the Sirens’ song is to sailors – can she resist keeping it for herself?<\/p>\n

Every person hides secrets – are any as dangerous as Kora’s glittering abilities?<\/p>\n

As long as her gloves keep gold from touching her skin,
\nas long as Duke Royce can help her find her father’s treasures,
\nas long as her best friend and cousin Hettie believes in her…
\nperhaps the Touch won’t consume Kora after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gold calls to her, like the Sirens call sailors on her ship, like a friendly voice finally calls her from the castle… Dangerous waters ahead for the golden-hued daughter of King Midas, restored from entrapment as a living gold statue to human form by a sacrifice that ages her father and keeps her locked away. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,19,30],"tags":[90,22,7,4,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,43,71,39,38,49,256,15,198,217,21,35,33,3,6,8,28,59],"class_list":["post-9973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairy-tales","category-fiction","category-legends","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-ocean","tag-relationships","tag-retelling","tag-royalty","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TouchofGoldThumb.jpg?fit=250%2C376&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9973"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14252,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions\/14252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}