8/13/2019 Book Review4

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I wanted to like All That Glows, I thought the concept could be interesting. I was intrigued by a fairy fallingin love with a prince, it mix a couple of my favorite things together: falling in love and princes. ach is acomplicated aspect on it!s own but add in the fantasy aspect the possibilities are endless. "ot that I am ahuge fantasy, but the premise of All That Glows reminded me of Incarnate by #odi $eadows, so I decided togive a chance.

%hen I started reading, the first thing I noticed what the narrator!s voice. It!s so distinct, but I couldn!t tellif I liked it or not. It made sense to the character. myrs is supposed to be this fairy who has been alivesince before &ing Author!s time, so it makes sense that the narrator!s voice sounds old and kind of stilted, but it really didn!t work for me. myrs 'ust makes a lot of short and declarative statements and reading it is 'ust odd. (till, I tried to ignore it and focus on what was actually happening but that wasn!t much better.

I feel like everything that!s being described is so monotoned. %hen the really big and exciting stuff issupposed to be happening, I didn!t actually reali)e it. It didn!t feel momentous, you can!t really tell the highsand the lows from the tone, you!re 'ust supposed to be able to figure it out.

*ou!re also supposed to take mrys! and +rince ichard!s love at face value and 'ust accept it. I don!t know

what makes ichard so different from all the millions of humans that mrys has been exposed to. -e!s 'ustsupposed to be different. merys is constantly internally battling her feelings for him, but ichard doesn!tseem like someone you!d risk it all for, especially after witnessing humans adhere to their human nature forthousands of years.

$y last ma'or issue with All That Glows is that I don!t know much about the fairies and their rules fromreading this. I get that their magical creatures and they guard royals but that!s all that stuck out afterreading this novel. I don!t know any more about the basic rules, but I do know that they don!t seem tofollow the rules that I!ve read in other novels. %hich is fine, but I feel if that!s what you!re going to do itneed to be woven into the story. or example, in All That Glows fairies are allowed to lie. %hat else are theyallowed to do, what aren!t allowed to do. I know that myrs falling in love with ichard is kind of taboo butI need to know how bad it is, I need some point of reference for how bad it is.

All That Glows 'ust wasn!t for me. I think fans of fantasy might like it more than I did. ven though I seemto harp on the bad, it isn!t all bad, it 'ust wasn!t for me.