by Kristen Simmons
I really liked this book. I let it sit around awhile before starting it, but after started, I wondered why I had waited so long. There were a couple of details within the plot that didn’t quite make sense to me. Girl babies were often frowned upon or killed, but the need of girls were in such hig...
At A GlanceGenre: Young Adult; Sci FiLove Triangle/Insta Love?: nope.Cliff Hanger: Kinda.Rating: 4 StarsScore SheetAll out of tenCover: 7Plot: 7Characters: 8World Building: 8Flow: 8Series Congruity: n/aEnding: 8Total: 8In DeptBest Part: Kickass Female MC!Worst Part: Slavery!Thoughts Had: Yah figh...
I’ve heard a lot of great things about this book so I wasn’t really surprised when I found myself liking it.I loved it, actually! It’s my first time to read Kristen Simmons’s work and I’m very glad I did.The Glass Arrow was such an enthralling, captivating and exciting read. I was hooked upon readin...
There are a lot of readers who have really liked this book, so this may be one of those situations where it's not the book, it's me. I just can't deal with the world-building. I am so over dystopias where misogyny is a cheap and easy substitute for putting together a world that makes sense. This b...
***This review has also been posted on The Social PotatoWith all the praise that I kept hearing for this book, I was prepared to be amazed yet there was some part of me that expected this book to be just like any other dystopia I’ve ever read. Sometimes you just gotta roll with it because I chose to...
The storytelling: Kristen Simmons is a great writer. Her writing has the tight, conciseness of a short story, with the expansive and deep world-building of a fantasy arc. The pacing of each chapter, each section of the novel is incredibly well done. The exposition is never boring, the action always ...
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