A review by tregina
Gleam by Tom Fletcher

3.0

I'm generally a big fan of this type of strangeness and this type of worldbuilding, dropping the reader in and letting them figure it out as they go, but there was something about this that didn't feel quite lived in enough to make it work from the get-go. I didn't really care for (or about) most of the characters, though there were a couple who managed to stand out in the end. (I would read entire books about Bloody Nora.) The deeper into the world I got—and I mean that both in a literal and a metaphorical sense—the more interesting it got to me. This has a lot going for it, certainly enough for me to keep going in the series, but it's not all the way there yet.