not so glamourous
several months ago, i found that there was free Kindle and Nook apps for the iPod. that plus free ebooks = score!
the freebies are mostly okay to not-bad reads, (what i rank on goodreads as three stars). some are absolutely phenomenal....and of course, some are complete flops.
Penelope Fletcher's Glamour is one of the flops.
Rae Wilder has problems....
Supernatural creatures swarm the earth, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Stalked by a handsome fairy who claims she is like him, demonkind, Rae thinks maybe it was a mistake breaking the rules by going over the Wall into demon territory. Plunged into a world of dark magics, fierce creatures, and ritual sacrifice, she is charged with a guarding a magical amulet. The changes to her mind and body are startling, but rather than accept her purpose, she struggles against who she is destined to be. Throw in a big lust for a vampire who can't keep his hands off her, and life starts to get complicated. Rae is forced to make the ultimate choice: to live and die human, or embrace her birth-right and wield magics that could turn her into something wicked, a force of nature nothing can control.
the initial beginning was fairly interesting--the world and its post-war society...there aren't many humans left and they all hole themselves up in walled cities. all the "demons" (which encompasses pretty much all magical creatures and people) live outside the walls and are to be avoided for one's own safety. Rae even seemed like a semi-interesting character at first. then it just all flopped.
-- Rae goes from semi-interesting to Mary Sue-esque. she likes to run for exercise, so she's super-duper fast. her body has some sort of super-healing quality. and she has a weird anger-management problem....if someone brushes her shoulder in a crowded hallway, she gets the sudden urge to want to put them through the wall.
her background: she is an orphan who is training to be a Cleric. students are called Disciples. Clerics do the protecting of the humans, or so we think. another example of Mary Sue-esque thinking is we get Rae's class schedule: "I was pretty much good at everything I tried and took eight classes instead of the six most Disciples preferred; Martial Arts, Explosives, Subterfuge, Entomology, Demon Theory, Equestrianism and Alchemy." now do we see any of those classes? maybe a few minutes of one or two. makes me wonder what the point of her background of "training to be a Cleric" has to do with the story.
-- too many things happened WAY too fast. i had to keep back swiping when the plot started to pick up speed because things jumped around so much. even the discovery of Rae's demon nature seemed to happen too fast. and you were left confused on just who was supposed to be the villain.
-- as for Rae's "love interests"....there was no chemistry with either, vampire or faery. and for those who thought the stalking behavior Meyer wrote into Twilight's Edward was bad, Fletcher's faery boy Breandan is even creepier with one of the first things out of his mouth after meeting her being "Since I saw you first you have to be mine."
O_o
it was awhile ago that i read Twilight, but i don't even think Edward was that fucked up.
there was a lot of bad punctuation too.
just yea....avoid this one. if you want an awesome fantasy Kindle read, download Elizabeth C. Mock's Shatter instead.
the freebies are mostly okay to not-bad reads, (what i rank on goodreads as three stars). some are absolutely phenomenal....and of course, some are complete flops.
Penelope Fletcher's Glamour is one of the flops.
Rae Wilder has problems....
Supernatural creatures swarm the earth, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Stalked by a handsome fairy who claims she is like him, demonkind, Rae thinks maybe it was a mistake breaking the rules by going over the Wall into demon territory. Plunged into a world of dark magics, fierce creatures, and ritual sacrifice, she is charged with a guarding a magical amulet. The changes to her mind and body are startling, but rather than accept her purpose, she struggles against who she is destined to be. Throw in a big lust for a vampire who can't keep his hands off her, and life starts to get complicated. Rae is forced to make the ultimate choice: to live and die human, or embrace her birth-right and wield magics that could turn her into something wicked, a force of nature nothing can control.
the initial beginning was fairly interesting--the world and its post-war society...there aren't many humans left and they all hole themselves up in walled cities. all the "demons" (which encompasses pretty much all magical creatures and people) live outside the walls and are to be avoided for one's own safety. Rae even seemed like a semi-interesting character at first. then it just all flopped.
-- Rae goes from semi-interesting to Mary Sue-esque. she likes to run for exercise, so she's super-duper fast. her body has some sort of super-healing quality. and she has a weird anger-management problem....if someone brushes her shoulder in a crowded hallway, she gets the sudden urge to want to put them through the wall.
her background: she is an orphan who is training to be a Cleric. students are called Disciples. Clerics do the protecting of the humans, or so we think. another example of Mary Sue-esque thinking is we get Rae's class schedule: "I was pretty much good at everything I tried and took eight classes instead of the six most Disciples preferred; Martial Arts, Explosives, Subterfuge, Entomology, Demon Theory, Equestrianism and Alchemy." now do we see any of those classes? maybe a few minutes of one or two. makes me wonder what the point of her background of "training to be a Cleric" has to do with the story.
-- too many things happened WAY too fast. i had to keep back swiping when the plot started to pick up speed because things jumped around so much. even the discovery of Rae's demon nature seemed to happen too fast. and you were left confused on just who was supposed to be the villain.
-- as for Rae's "love interests"....there was no chemistry with either, vampire or faery. and for those who thought the stalking behavior Meyer wrote into Twilight's Edward was bad, Fletcher's faery boy Breandan is even creepier with one of the first things out of his mouth after meeting her being "Since I saw you first you have to be mine."
O_o
it was awhile ago that i read Twilight, but i don't even think Edward was that fucked up.
there was a lot of bad punctuation too.
just yea....avoid this one. if you want an awesome fantasy Kindle read, download Elizabeth C. Mock's Shatter instead.