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A review by geldauran
A History of Glitter and Blood by Hannah Moskowitz
3.0
3? 3.5? Also, hell if I know how to even assess this book. Its bizarre-- bisexual faerie prostitutes try to survive in a war-torn city and not get eaten? The world building is somehow really rich and sparse at the same time; the tidbits of information we're given about the existing races and the history of the world are SO MUCH, but we don't get much of it. Paradoxically, this is part of the book's charm-just enough information coming through an unreliable narrator, who is conscious of his unreliability and even writes out the bits where people tell him what an unreliable narrator he is.
Really, this book is so weird. Its got so much going for it and I've honestly never read anything like it before. So, why doesn't it have a higher rating? I just didn't love the characters, I guess. They are perfect for this book, they ARE this book, but I just never connected with them. They all have a really intense and complicated relationship that you can feel through the writing, but it never grabbed me and made me care about them as people. I was more interested in the ~overarching~ grand scheme of things like the fate of the city, the faerie race, the politics and sociology of it all.
Really, this book is so weird. Its got so much going for it and I've honestly never read anything like it before. So, why doesn't it have a higher rating? I just didn't love the characters, I guess. They are perfect for this book, they ARE this book, but I just never connected with them. They all have a really intense and complicated relationship that you can feel through the writing, but it never grabbed me and made me care about them as people. I was more interested in the ~overarching~ grand scheme of things like the fate of the city, the faerie race, the politics and sociology of it all.