Glimmerglass

author: Jenna Black

series: Faeriewalker

published: May 25th 2010

publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

format: paperback

pages: 294

The following synopsis comes from Goodreads.

Dana Hathaway doesn’t know it yet, but she’s in big trouble. When her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, again, Dana decides she’s had enough and runs away to find her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the captivating, magical world of Faerie intersect. But from the moment Dana sets foot in Avalon, everything goes wrong, for it turns out she isn't just an ordinary teenage girl—she's a Faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds, and the only person who can bring magic into the human world and technology into Faerie.

Soon, Dana finds herself tangled up in a cutthroat game of Fae politics. Someone's trying to kill her, and everyone seems to want something from her, from her newfound friends and family to Ethan, the hot Fae guy Dana figures she’ll never have a chance with… until she does. Caught between two worlds, Dana isn’t sure where she’ll ever fit in and who can be trusted, not to mention if her world will ever be normal again…

My Thoughts:
The Cover:

My favorite part of the cover of this book is the spine; it's pink and it has silver polka dots along the sides. The cover itself is really cute, too. I like the flowy image that floats on the cover. It looks like magic! I think it looks really nice next to the cover of the sequel, Shadowspell.

The Book:

First, I'd like to point out that Dana knows her Fae heritage. In most (maybe even all) of the other YA faerie books I've read, it's a surprise to the protagonist. I felt like this was a nice change.

The story flowed very nicely and was quick paced. I could not put this book down! At first, I was not thrilled by the fact that Avalon is full of faeries and humans and that people know about the fae. But, I quickly got over that and decided that this fact makes the story different and more exciting.

Glimmerglass is a different type of faerie novel and I truly can't wait until January 4th, when Shadowspell is released.

Fins Are Forever!

The Splash Team for Tera Lynn Childs is posting the COVER for Fins Are Forever today! Tera wanted to make a splash revealing the cover, so those of us Splash Members with blogs are posting today. So, here it is! This is so exciting! It's gorgeous!

Also, you can get the awesome widget countdown for the book HERE!

Fins Are Forever is set for release on June 28th 2011!

Extra, Extra! Read All About It!

I am SO excited!

On Friday, September 24th, bloggers across the internet will be revealing something extra special! Now, I don't know how they're doing it, but I'm not telling you what it is. Yet. But, I will tell you it's really cool! (To me anyway)

So be sure to check back here every once in a while because I might be telling you what it is tomorrow, or maybe next Wednesday, or maybe not.

Weekly Excerpts from Tera Lynn Childs

I felt the need to share this with readers of my blog. Tera Lynn Childs, author of Forgive My Fins, has this awesome new thing going on on her blog. Every Friday she is posting a chapter from a story she wrote that was never published. The current story is called Eye Candy and when there are no chapters left to post, she will release a PDF file of the story and begin posting her other chick lit book, Straight Talk.

You can read about the Weekly posting here.

You can read the first chapter of Eye Candy here. And the second here.

You should also check out her post about artistic license in creating mythology of her book Oh. My. Gods. and its sequel Goddess Boot Camp. It's really interesting and helpful for writers. You can check that out here.

Mockingjay

I can't believe The Hunger Games Trilogy is over. It's all done. Mockingjay was a great ending to a fantastic trilogy. I'm not doing any reviews for a while because of school. But I had to at least say that I loved Mockingjay. And everyone should read The Hunger Games Trilogy. I had been waiting since the first book came out for the final installment. And it was well worth the wait. Wow.