A review by beergeekgirl
Shattering Glass by Gail Giles

3.0

I've been recommending this book for years, based on what others have said, and only now finally got around to reading it. (Thank you again, YALSA!)

I liked the book, as much as you can like something so disturbing. And it does fall into the category of one of the most disturbing endings to a book. In face, I finished this before going to bed and had to grab a copy of Runner's World to sort of neutralize it.

Here's where it fell short.

While Young is essentially the good guy--he's the only one who took "responsibility," he didn't actually participate in the beating--he's really just spineless. I kept hoping somewhere along the line he would stand up for himself. I know that was supposed to be the point, and it's what allowed Glass to get his dig in at him at the end, but it made him essentially unlikable. In the end, it's also not surprising that he only stood back and watched.

I did like the interviews at the beginning of each chapter. It kept me hooked, wondering what was going to happen and who was going to be involved (I had it all wrong up until almost the very end).

I loved Coop, who truly was a good guy, and would be very interested to hear the story told from his point of view.