Now hildea seems to think I'm some kind of misogynistic person, I suppose.
Anyway...the book in question was "Spread Me" by Sarah Gailey. I only made it through the first twenty pages or so.
Regarding Goodreads I've just read a press release about a paper about the ratings on this website. And it's the usual gibberish one would expect from the "Center for Humanities Computing and the Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text".
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1111632
DOI: 10.17175/sb006_002
Published in "Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften" which sounds like something about ghosts (Geister).
"The Gilded Chain" sounds not like a book for me. I don't like fantasy, magic, kings et cetera.