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The Glittering Court
by Richelle Mead
Back to books I can finish in a few days of light reading yesss.
Ok so unfortunately this book was mediocre at best :\ The last few books from Richelle have been pretty lacklustre compared to her other stuff. Just let her write some good adult stuff omg pls I need to know what Justin and Mae are up to, no more of this vanilla YA stuff.
Having said that I love the idea that this book is one of 3 and we'll see the same events and more from the perspectives of other characters. The groundwork for that was laid down in this one but it was really what's the word? obvious? when people kept disappearing for long stretches of time and being like "I'll tell you where I was... later". This book doesn't work that well as a standalone.
And the story omg. It was so The Selection but worse in terms of selling girls for money duuuuude. I liked that Adelaide (is calling her Adelaide a spoiler probably not but who knows) excelled in all the areas back when they were doing tests (it all seems so long ago) but all her fancy rich people skillz were mostly useless for the rest of the story . I like how she's all ~I'm rich and fancy~ but then they don't have electricity because it hasn't been invented like what's the point of fancy dresses when it's dark everywhere.
The whole romance thing was so ughhh. Does this count as insta-love? I feel like they knew each other for quite a while but it just seemed short because the book was short. All their issues were so easily solved?? Like the whole Warren thing (oh man that was so dumb. it was an interesting twist but also crazy and convoluted and it's only going to get more convoluted with the next 2 books). And the Marshalls?? Will they be back? Was there really any point in their characters? They were just people Adelaide (should I call her Elizabeth? I liked that we had to wait to find out what her name was) lived with and were super inconsequential. Also what was with the travel time and how all the locations were super far apart? Why am I asking so many rhetorical questions?
I am so off topic. The romance. Was dumb. Sure they were a little cute but also the religion thing was super dumb! The entire world was questionable. I guess you can't challenge their government for being so crazily against other religions because I feel like that happens in our world too but immediate public execution with little evidence to back up the charge is so extreme. The entire ending got so out of hand. I feel like Mira is totally involved with the ~pirates~ somehow. And it's cool that Tamsin joined the Icori. Or was she always a part of them? She has the hair. So I'll totally be reading the next books because I want to know what everyone else was up to and hopefully all the books together will make the story better because of all the layers added in.
Overall though honestly what did I read it was such a random crazy adventure.Fancy high society, identity theft, finishing school, Tamsin being super cutthroat, art forgery, stormy seas, wife auctions, masquerade balls (so glad she didn't do that ~omg can't recognise u with a mask on~ thing (I feel like someone was secretly there though. And Mira stole the wigs for something.) , weird pagan rituals, getting caught nearly in the act, gold mining???, eloping, glossed over sex scene, abseiling, explosions, murder conspiracy, attempted rape (why did she not use the word rape? literally that scum of the earth guy was going to rape her it was way more than ~attempted assault~), ridiculous court case, gang of wannabe bounty hunters, suddenly pirates, poor deceived art guy, moniesss, faked legal papers, showdown in the middle of town during the execution, Mira with a crossbow aw yeah excited to hear more about that, multiple leg stabbings, riding off into sunset (not really). I really can't believe this much happened.
Ok so unfortunately this book was mediocre at best :\ The last few books from Richelle have been pretty lacklustre compared to her other stuff. Just let her write some good adult stuff omg pls I need to know what Justin and Mae are up to, no more of this vanilla YA stuff.
Having said that I love the idea that this book is one of 3 and we'll see the same events and more from the perspectives of other characters. The groundwork for that was laid down in this one but it was really what's the word? obvious? when people kept disappearing for long stretches of time and being like "I'll tell you where I was... later". This book doesn't work that well as a standalone.
And the story omg. It was so The Selection but worse in terms of selling girls for money duuuuude. I liked that
The whole romance thing was so ughhh.
I am so off topic. The romance. Was dumb. Sure they were a little cute but also the religion thing was super dumb! The entire world was questionable. I guess you can't challenge their government for being so crazily against other religions because I feel like that happens in our world too but immediate public execution with little evidence to back up the charge is so extreme. The entire ending got so out of hand. I feel like Mira is totally involved with the ~pirates~ somehow. And it's cool that Tamsin joined the Icori. Or was she always a part of them? She has the hair.
Overall though honestly what did I read it was such a random crazy adventure.