A review by kblincoln
Glimmerglass by Jenna Black
4.0
Dana Hathaway's mother is a drunk. When she shows up to the latest recital, embarassing Dana and blowing her cover of being a normal girl skyhigh, Dana decides anything would be better than staying with her mother.
So she runs away to Avalan. Literally. Outside of London is a mountain where one city of Faerie and one city in the normal world overlap. While both humans and faerie can coexist in the city, neither can enter the world of the other....except for those rare beings called faeriewalkers.
Dana knows her father is faerie, but her mother has kept secret all these years how powerful he is. When she arrives in Avalon, her aunt kidnaps her for her own "safety".
Then two more faerie (including a cute "young" faerie named Ethan) she's never seen before kidnap her away from her aunt, she's attacked by Spriggans, finds her father, realizes everyone is lying to her to manipulate her for their own gain both as her father's daughter and because, you guessed it, she's a faeriewalker.
Dana's voice is a hoot to read. Watching her fall into Ethan's arms while she has all the clues he's playing her was painful in a high-school way, and I enjoyed how she worked through anger and betrayal to form a different kind of relationship.
I also liked how Dana's evolving relationships with her father and the bodyguard, Finn, who almost gets killed for her.
The relationship with her drunk mother felt a little problematic to me. Dana has taken care of her mother for so long, I expected more hate and resentment feelings mixed up within the love, whereas Dana seemed to express mostly caring for her mother.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Cheddar Kettle Chips for Dana's story being easy to read, along with the crisp fun-flavored characters and their interesting relationships.
So she runs away to Avalan. Literally. Outside of London is a mountain where one city of Faerie and one city in the normal world overlap. While both humans and faerie can coexist in the city, neither can enter the world of the other....except for those rare beings called faeriewalkers.
Dana knows her father is faerie, but her mother has kept secret all these years how powerful he is. When she arrives in Avalon, her aunt kidnaps her for her own "safety".
Then two more faerie (including a cute "young" faerie named Ethan) she's never seen before kidnap her away from her aunt, she's attacked by Spriggans, finds her father, realizes everyone is lying to her to manipulate her for their own gain both as her father's daughter and because, you guessed it, she's a faeriewalker.
Dana's voice is a hoot to read. Watching her fall into Ethan's arms while she has all the clues he's playing her was painful in a high-school way, and I enjoyed how she worked through anger and betrayal to form a different kind of relationship.
I also liked how Dana's evolving relationships with her father and the bodyguard, Finn, who almost gets killed for her.
The relationship with her drunk mother felt a little problematic to me. Dana has taken care of her mother for so long, I expected more hate and resentment feelings mixed up within the love, whereas Dana seemed to express mostly caring for her mother.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Cheddar Kettle Chips for Dana's story being easy to read, along with the crisp fun-flavored characters and their interesting relationships.