A Touch of Gold

I can't speak on how great the whole book is because I couldn't get past chapter 5. It was not for lack of trying though. I really wanted to be invested into this world! It could have been such an intriguing exciting take on a well-know classic tale, but instead it was so badly predictable that I could guess where the story was going within the few chapters I read, and I was almost 100% percent accurate because I skipped to the end of the book to find out.

It's not always a bad thing that you can guess where a story is going as long as the story is well written, but this was just boring. The characters fell in love way too quickly, I didn't like any of them, the world doesn't feel properly fleshed out, and the pacing was atrocious! In just 5 chapters! I think this story could have been amazing, but instead it was dull. A story about GOLD PEOPLE was dull.