Girl with Glass Feet
Format: Gebundene Ausgabe
ISBN:
9781843549185 (1843549182)
ASIN: 1843549182
Publish date: 2009-05-01
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: Deutsch
Beautiful writing, but the plot was too slow at times. I wish the characters had more self-confidence but despite that I loved them. Ali Shaw has created a wonderful world in this book and I am looking forward to reading more of his writings.3 Stars.
This was an interesting one. On an island where a creature is said to exist, in legends, that turns everything it looks at pure white, a girl finds herself with an unusual predicament - her feet are turning into glass, and that glass is creeping further and further up her body. Paired with an introv...
I can almost guarantee that you won't have read anything quite like the Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw, a young novelist who deserves more attention. The Guardian review said of it 'Shaw has worded the great tradition of European fairy tales and come up with an ingenious story so deft it defies th...
I...I don't know what I was expecting. It certainly wasn't this. I knew nothing about this book before picking it up. It turned up on one of my lists, and I ordered it from the library, and eventually read it.And at times, it felt like it was written just for me. It fit so neatly into things I love,...
Oh man, this just about killed me.