Tag: The Gilded Ones Series

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna is a West African-inspired YA fantasy series centered on Deka, a 16-year-old in a patriarchal society who bleeds gold instead of red—marking her as impure. Escaping execution, she joins an army of similar girls (“Alaki”) to fight monsters, discovering she is a near-immortal warrior with immense power.