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A review by heather4994
Glimmerglass by Jenna Black
5.0
I just finished this book and loved it! I was talking to my husband last night and was on page 45 or so and I tried to explain the book to him. So far I hadn't been impressed. Then I turned a few pages and I was hooked. So, before you put it down because the beginning is slow, give it a few chapters like I did. Needless to say, I stopped talking to my husband for the night and stuck my nose in a book.
Dana is a girl with a very complicated life. She's got an alcoholic mother who she ran away from to a father she found in Avalon who didn't even know she existed. She and her mother have been moving for sixteen years "hiding" from him because her mother at times says he's horrible and at other times says he's wonderful. So off she goes to see him in Avalon hoping for a "normal" life in a city where magic coexists with humans. That makes Avalon a huge tourist attraction so it has a border patrol/immigration station for people entering from the human world. And from then on, Dana's life gets more complicated than if she'd stayed with her mother. She is held prisoner, kidnapped, attacked, finds her father is in jail, taken in by strangers, taken in by her father, followed by a bodyguard, attacked again and you get the picture. Through it all she is rather tough and controls her emotions much better than most sixteen year olds I know. But then she's been the responsible one for so long now that she handles certain things as maturely as an adult would. That's not to say she doesn't break down and sometimes gets taken advantage of, but she learns quickly. The boys, that's another story. There's seductive Ethan, sullen Keane and even Finn, though he's a little old for her. She hasn't had much experience with boys and doesn't know what flirting is versus seducing versus just another conquest. And I loved the point of view -first person- I knew exactly what Dana was thinking and feeling, but just like her had to speculate on what everyone else's motives and feelings and actions were. It made me feel like I was really there and part of the story.
The Glimmerglass was explained a little more and the reason that Dana being a fariewalker was so important was explained even more. There is a lot left open and dangling at the end and as Dana, I still wouldn't know who to trust. Everyone has there own agenda. And, in the next book there is the promise of a "Smoldering and deadly Erlking has his sights set on Dana". I'm not going to quote anymore because I'm afraid it might give away some of the plot in this book. I'd definitely read this one again!
Dana is a girl with a very complicated life. She's got an alcoholic mother who she ran away from to a father she found in Avalon who didn't even know she existed. She and her mother have been moving for sixteen years "hiding" from him because her mother at times says he's horrible and at other times says he's wonderful. So off she goes to see him in Avalon hoping for a "normal" life in a city where magic coexists with humans. That makes Avalon a huge tourist attraction so it has a border patrol/immigration station for people entering from the human world. And from then on, Dana's life gets more complicated than if she'd stayed with her mother. She is held prisoner, kidnapped, attacked, finds her father is in jail, taken in by strangers, taken in by her father, followed by a bodyguard, attacked again and you get the picture. Through it all she is rather tough and controls her emotions much better than most sixteen year olds I know. But then she's been the responsible one for so long now that she handles certain things as maturely as an adult would. That's not to say she doesn't break down and sometimes gets taken advantage of, but she learns quickly. The boys, that's another story. There's seductive Ethan, sullen Keane and even Finn, though he's a little old for her. She hasn't had much experience with boys and doesn't know what flirting is versus seducing versus just another conquest. And I loved the point of view -first person- I knew exactly what Dana was thinking and feeling, but just like her had to speculate on what everyone else's motives and feelings and actions were. It made me feel like I was really there and part of the story.
The Glimmerglass was explained a little more and the reason that Dana being a fariewalker was so important was explained even more. There is a lot left open and dangling at the end and as Dana, I still wouldn't know who to trust. Everyone has there own agenda. And, in the next book there is the promise of a "Smoldering and deadly Erlking has his sights set on Dana". I'm not going to quote anymore because I'm afraid it might give away some of the plot in this book. I'd definitely read this one again!