Mountains Made of Glass (Fairy Tale Retelling Book 1)

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In short, the book is about a girl named Gesela who lives in a town called Elk which is riddled with curses. The town essentially sacrifices people in different ways to break these curses. Gesela is ostracized for certain reasons and when it's time to break a new curse, it's no surprise to her that she's next in line. While breaking the curse she ends up killing one of the seven elven princes. As retribution for their brother's death, Gesela is sent to the seventh brother to live as his prisoner. The seventh brother, Casamir, bargains with Gesela. If she can guess his name in seven days, he will set her free. Well, of course there is a catch, there's always catch. Could you love me?” he whispered. The question stole my breath and burned my lungs in the silence that followed.

PDF / EPUB File Name: Mountains_Made_of_Glass_-_Scarlett_St_Clair.pdf, Mountains_Made_of_Glass_-_Scarlett_St_Clair.epubI don't want to give too much away but some of the things said toward the end. I actually almost shed a tear it was so goddamn sweet. If you get to the part where the mirror was choking up (iykyk) that was most likely the part that had me in a chokehold. Just everything about this I thoroughly enjoyed, and I recommend it if your inner adult child is looking for a dark twisted mosh posh of fairytales to light your soul on fire. 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." In addition to the spice, we also see both Casamir and Ella face their misgivings about love. Neither like being vulnerable and they resist fully opening up to each other. However, with all that chemistry zapping around, it proves difficult. "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." And I love how Casamir tries to get love and courting advice from anyone who will listen. The magic mirror, the house brownie, and even a prisoner is questioned, though Casamir is not good at following through with the advice he receives, and he fumbles and bumbles more than he succeeds. It’s so sweet to see this dark, brooding, and usually unfeeling male fall head over heels in love. Synopsis: “Could you love me?” he whispered. The question stole my breath and burned my lungs in the silence that followed.

Many thanks to SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Books via NetGalley for giving me a chance to read the first book of Fairy Tale Retelling, Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair, my review is honest and my own.Gesela is not the weak, fainting sort, and yet clearly there is in this book the association of sexual arousal with her subordination. At one point, we have the somewhat startling passage: We returned to her kingdom where her father declared that we would wed,” he said. Then he asked, “Did you rescue your princess?” Could you love me?" he whispered. The question stole my breath and burned my lungs in the silence that followed. Instead of kissing the frog (I loved the inclusion of that tale), Ela has to kill it, which she does. But the frog has six elven brothers ready to avenge him, with five of them appearing to send her to their brother, the beast of the story, as a slave. Ela can either be free in a week if she guesses his name right, or he’ll forget his name and fade into oblivion, but she doesn’t know that for the most part. 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.

Give it a chance if you enjoy enemy-to-lover, duel POV, short and harsh stories. I'll probably read the second book, this world and the Brothers have potential, but I really hope the next be more engaging. 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. Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of the book. All thoughts are my own. The setting of the Glass Muntains and the cursed forest was as eerie and atmospheric, as the apparition of many fantastical creature was spot on.The only reason this is two stars is because it made me laugh, except I don't think it was supposed to. Why do I keep giving Scarlett St. Clair a go when I'm currently batting one for four of her books that I actually liked? Homegirl saw the discourse around Lightlark and how everything was described as an adjective + "thing" and said hold my wine. Father used to say the forest was magic, but I believed otherwise. In fact, I did not think the forest was enchanted at all. She was alive, just as real and sentient as the fae who lived within. It was the fae who were magic, and they were as evil as she was.

Second of all, this author can really make a unique and fantastic retelling of anything. The richness of the lores (some borrowed and some she comes up with herself) is the most compelling part of the book. There is a long history of men promulgating male privilege and sexual dominance, but this book was written by a woman. That isn’t a mystery; androcentric media has affected women on both conscious and subconscious levels, influencing what they have grown to believe is romantic and/or erotic, and what they define as “success” in life. Thus male domination is a turn-on for *both* men and women. [The dynamic is aided by women wearing sheer, revealing clothing (featured aplenty in this book) and assuming physical positions of submission.] Men can’t resist these women (no matter how surly), and other women want to emulate them. Being “hot” is equated with success and self-esteem, just as Gesela feels being ravished by Casamir makes her “someone.” Typically such plots involve a Byronic hero who is powerful and attractive, yet flawed in ways most notably exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron. This hero (often a vampire, but an Elven Lord works as well) is moody, dark, cynical, independent, masterful, and has a mysterious past that not only gives him much pain but has made “love” almost impossible for him. But he is also absolutely magnetic and sexually irresistible. He can be cruel, too, but who can blame him, given all the grief festering inside him? Not we readers, surely!

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I have been on the fence with Scarlett St Clair for a while now. You better do not get me started on Hades and Persephone. The Vampire one was also not my cup of tea. 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.