Strap yourself in. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
I actually finished this book last year, and it was in my top five reads for 2012. I never got around to reviewing it, so here’s a quick overview.
My opinion? I want to be Jocelyn Adams when I grow up. Well, not completely, but I would love to have the “flow” that her writing style has. She is really “readable”.
Have you ever read a great book, but it was easy to put it down? Well, Glass Man is a great book that your husband has to pry out of your hands to make sure you go to bed at night… I call that “flow” because there is no hard break in the writing… as a reader, you just keep reading without knowing what’s going on.
Glassman is a story about a girl with supernatural powers and has no idea why she has these powers. She is being chased by “The Glass Man” – a man who killed her entire family when she was young, and has been hunting her ever since. Yep, this is one of my favorite tropes – the CHASE NOVEL. Wahoo! Action abounds!
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel from beginning to end, with a few very minor nit-picks.
Nit Picks:
#1 is the language. Yeah, yeah, stamp me a prude, but I cannot relate to a heroine with a gutter mouth. I’ve said before, using the word sh*t or even the F-bomb if you fall and hurt yourself is okay. It’s natural. But riddling the dialog with profanity bothers me. I have to subtract a star for this.
#2 is that the main character is wearing a ridiculous outfit for a long time during the climax near the end of the story. Why Why Why? Is all I have to ask. The narrative, which is otherwise outstanding, high energy and tense, is challenged, and at times ruined by the dumb outfit that the bad guy made her wear. I just don’t know where the author was going with that. Maybe it was supposed to be comic relief, or maybe titillation… for me, it just made me roll my eyes. So for this, I need to subtract another star.
Now let’s chat for a second about the character of the Glass Man.
Best Villain I have ever read
Like EVER
Wanna lesson on how to write a villain? Pick up Glass Man. I mean DANG. I actually found myself rooting for him most of the time. He is just so darn bad you have to love him… and I just love a hot sexy villain. He’s not bad… he’s doing the right thing! Who cares if everyone else thinks he’s a psychopath?????
Pure brilliance on the villain, and I would LOVE to see a prequel that was based solely on his character. There is a mention of an earlier event with the MC of this story where the villain actually “won”. I would LOVE to see that made into a book. Let’s cheer on that bad guy. Yahooooo!
Okay, so, if you didn’t catch my enthusiasm, I was trying to say that the villain was awesome, and for him alone, I will give this book an extra star.
So that’s a total of four stars for the Glass Man. If you like paranormal stories, and can get in to a chase novel with a dash of romance and two supernatural being kicking the crud out of each other, you will just LOVE this.
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I feel like I’ve been gone forever.
You should have treated it like a vacation. 
What’s with all the sparkles?
What, you haven’t heard about me? Where have you been ~ in outer space? Everybody has heard about the Rock Star Romance Trilogy, and today, I want to shout about the release of the second book, Sophie’s Run. 
You think I have glitz and glamour?
Her famous star remains her rock while life takes her on a little detour…
First of all, Congrats to last week’s winner: 
Hello. 
he war (Civil, that is) is over, Sanderson is home, and life is good. Until the Army comes knocking. They’ve charged Sanderson with murder and unless he can track down the notorious outlaw William “Bloody Bill” Quantrill, he’ll face the hangman’s noose. Meanwhile, Charlotte is left in Minerva’s capable hands to endure a complicated pregnancy before battling a rash of hydrophobee that threatens the countryside; Cotton, Achilles, and Sanderson included.
First of all,
First of all, congrats to last week’s winner Grandfathersky
My name is Kastil Eavenshade, and I want Pimpage…lots and lots of pimpage.
Craft?
From the legendary times of the Victorian Age to the rugged reaches of outer space, the romance novels have done nothing to spark Patricia’s want and hope of finding that one special man to call her own. She’s knee deep into her thirties, near depression, and drowning her sorrows in pints of premium ice cream. When she falls for a waiter named Matt in her favorite restaurant, her insecurities do their best to thwart her plans of true love. It isn’t until she picks up one last romance novel that she realizes life cannot be lived within the ink splattered pages of an author’s fantasies. She has one chance to set her life straight and snatch the one man who gets her: mind and body. Will Patricia take it?
Why do all these authors sound like robots when you ask them that question?
