The Shadowglass: Bone Witch #3 (The Bone Witch, 3)

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Honestly, it's hard to fault The Shadow in the Glass. Though there were moments where my attention was pulled elsewhere, I found this on the whole to be a dark yet enjoyable journey upon which I would absolutely embark once more. This is supposed to be a dark, gothic Cinderella retelling. It is one, I suppose - a boring one! But I admit the twist was cool. Thank you so much to NetGalley and HarperVoyager, an imprint of HarperCollins UK, for granting my wish to read this book. I’m rounding up from 3.5 stars. Wonderful. A bold and heartfelt adventure from another world, another time—and our own.”– Max Gladstone, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer

THE SHADOWGLASS | Kirkus Reviews

Disclaimer: I received this free book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.) Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing -An extremely dissatisfying book. A ridiculous bargain, an even more ridiculous love story. By the end of the story I wanted everyone to die including the protagonist and her love interest. Ella, being the kind of stupid that the plot needed her to be, says yes without thinking it through. It's only a matter of time before Mr. Pembroke turns his eye on Ella—and to Ella's worry, on the even younger Aoife—and Ella feels this is her only choice. There’s no shortage of action in this book and the characters became so real to me it felt like I was fighting alongside them. I don’t know how it’s possible to feel nostalgia for a movie I’ve never seen and doesn’t exist (yet) but here we are. What’s going to stay with me the most, though, is this book’s heart. Oh boy, I do not want to write this review. It's always hard when you expected to love a book and then...you really, really don't. First off... DISCLAIMER:I beta-read this book. Also, Titan Books provided me with an evaluation ecopy via NetGalley (thank you!). Neither facts influenced my review in any way.

The Shadow Glass by Josh Winning | Goodreads The Shadow Glass by Josh Winning | Goodreads

A dark and gothic tale set during the Victorian times, The Shadow In the Glass is a compelling and engrossing story of a young girl’s struggle to better her life. The Shadow in the Glass embodied such an ominous essence in a multitude of ways to easily describe it as harrowing. To put it bluntly, especially when Goodreads classifies this as YA, I felt this book’s nature was unnerving. There is physical abuse of the household maids, multiple references to past rape and potential future rape of maids, and also a graphic description of abortion and miscarriage. All of this left me feeling suffocated because of how gut churning and worried I was for the characters, and so, it certainly isn’t a light read. I enjoyed anticipating how Eleanor’s wishes would be granted and seeing how she would react when she was given what she asked for, especially when expectation and reality didn’t line up. Then my problems with the book start. Ella is so high and mighty that she thinks she'll do right, because she is a good person, isn't she? She waits with her wishes till something bad happens and she has to use one to fix things from turning even worse. She doesn't act, she reacts, and is appaled by the consequences she gets.who is this woman? is she the devil? apparently the girl is familiar with the story of Dr. Faustus, since this is what this retelling seems to be, thrown in with some shit Cinderella angle - so I don't understand why she doesn't put two and two together and just clamp her mouth shut and or run away