The Gilded King is the first novel in the Sovereign series by Josie Jaffery and it certainly sets the bar high for the rest of the series! While the blurb with all it's color coding sounds complex, once you jump into the story, the confusion melts away as you lose yourself in this dystopian world. The storyline follows two main characters, Julia, a human, and Cameron, a vampire, as they make their way through their environment.

Julia is stuck in the Blue, a city that has been walled off from the world; the last city in the world, in fact. Made as a defense against the Red, the city is home to the Nobles, vampires who call upon the humans there to be Attendants. Julia never wanted to be an Attendant, servants used to feed the Nobles. She longs for the freedom of the Red, a wild territory outside the walls of the ordered Blue until she is assigned Attendant to Lucas.

Meanwhile, Cameron, one of Solis Invicti, elite military and bodyguard to the Empress, shuns the organized city of the Blue for the wilds of the Reds, looking for a lost friend, one that he will never give up searching for.

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