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Mountains Made of Glass (Fairy Tale Retelling Book 1)

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Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair is a fairy tale retelling that came out on the 7th of March. I was approved for an e-copy, courtesy of NetGalley, by Bloom Books when I requested it because anyone on bookstagram, or Goodreads, or literal or booktok has heard of Scarlett St. Clair at this point. On the one hand, this is a mash-up of fairytale retellings and a very hot romance, with explicit details. But to my mind, and more importantly, it is a stereotypical story from pre-Me-Too days of the appeal of the rapey bad boy.

So this book is like fresh off the press right? And I impulse read it when I saw FAE, MAGIC, RETELLING, SPICY, and SHORT. Everything I’d like. Firstly, I always love the vibes and world with anything fae, I’ll eat that shiii up. It started off great: murder, fairytale zhuzh, attractive brothers showing up at the foot of your bed to deliver you to the even more attractive “beast” brother, a curse. But even for a short book, everything felt super rushed to me. Including some of the smut which had me lost🧍‍♀️. The hate lust was real😍. It was hard to buy the hate, lust and love though. Logic? We don’t know her. The characters were so unserious. Touch some grass. And if someone called me “creature” every other sentence, that would be my final straw. This emoji 😀 was me. This had a lot of potential for a full length book I feel. I just didn’t get enough time to connect. The last 30% got better, I liked the ending. And the land seemed so beautiful🤭. Overall a fun experience?😂 I did laugh a lot🤠. 3 stars⭐️ At the end of a dusty dirt road off California ’s Highway 395 lies a mountain made of volcanic glass, also known as obsidian. Located just north of Mammoth Lakes, the dome is part of the Mono-Inyo volcanic chain. Mountains Made of Glass is a novella that Scarlett wrote just for the fun of it. And it shows and I love that for her and us readers. It takes inspiration from all different fairytales to create this unique enemies to lovers novella. I am trying to save you, you bastard,” I said through my teeth, reaching for it again. Its body was slippery, which did not make it easy to hold as it wriggled in my grasp. “I’ll keep you in a cage if I have to!” All Gesela's life, her home village of Elk has been cursed. And it isn't a single curse-it is one after another, each to be broken by a villager, each with devastating consequences. When Elk's well goes dry, it is Gesela's turn to save her town by killing the toad that lives at the bottom. Except . . . the toad is not a toad at all. He is an Elven prince under a curse of his own, and upon his death, his brothers come for Gesela, seeking retribution.Choke me", FMC said at some point, and there I was, flying to the moon with heart palpitations and squeezed tighs.

All Gesela's life, her home village of Elk has been cursed. And it isn't a single curse—it is one after another, each to be broken by a villager, each with devastating consequences. When Elk's well goes dry, it is Gesela's turn to save her town by killing the toad that lives at the bottom. Except...the toad is not a toad at all. He is an Elven prince under a curse of his own, and upon his death, his brothers come for Gesela, seeking retribution.

She makes me feel like it won’t matter if I have a name or not. So long as I know her, I will know myself.” This book is different than I expected. It's darker and more adult than I thought it would be. The more I read, the worse it got. I couldn't get into this book. This just wasn't for me. We know how the story will go; this is a fairy tale retelling; there is a happy ending. But there is a reason why we read and don’t use those stupid book summary apps; we enjoy the path the author takes to get us there. St Clair builds a good worldbuilder! She grounds it things we’ve heard about and then takes it away from there to something magical and horrible at the same time. Wolf is the only decent thing there; everyone wants something and is constantly bartering to get it, whether that is the selkie or even the prince. Nothing is gentle and pretty; beautiful things are cruel, as is expected of them. I liked Gesela as well, even if she was a little annoying and way too naive , with her rushed decisions in the beginning, especially for a person as smart as she was described to be.

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