A review by lyakimov
The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead

2.0

I was fooled into thinking this book was about girls going to finishing school and at the same time they would be trained in assassin-like behavior or whatever. I was clearly so wrong because this book was such a bizarre and boring book with an incredibly disjointed plot. The plot barely existed in this book, and then swiveled suddenly into some new colonizer subplot in the last 100-130 pages of the book. Everything fell flat -- the romance, the "twists," the friendships between the characters. The romance was the epitome of insta-love and I felt absolutely NOTHING for the romance. I do like and respect the author trying her best to develop strong female friendships but the Bechdel test, unfortunately, was nowhere to be found.