A review by melinum
Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

Did not finish book. Stopped at 29%.
 DNFed at page 89. 
Here my thoughts while reading: 

  • Too much unnecessary exposition at the cost of character credibility. 
  • Too round-about and not to the point. I agree with one comment saying "losing oneself in descriptions of the landscape and unnecessary details." 
  • A lot of telling instead of showing: "the whole day, he thought of Ida." Instead of actually exploring why that is. 
  • It's annoying how Ida has to always ask things two times until that Idiot Midas answers her.
  • (p.52) I feel weird reading about this 40-something dude fawning over Freya and her apparent daughter?? The finger tips thing at the beginning of the chapter weirded me tf out.
  • I know men can write good books with well-developed female characters. Shaw is making me doubt this fact.
  • Midas taking pictures of Ida's feet is just weird man, idk. It's a lazy way of making him get to know her secret, yet it fits with the lazy way this story is written.
  • I also don't like how young??? they are described when in fact they're not? It's so weird. I have no sense for the characters whatsoever. I am quite literally surprised this book won anything, and has been read over 1000s of times. 

In summary: I am quite shocked that a book can displease me this much. And not in the way CoHo did, but in a way, where I was questioning MYSELF, thinking I am the one missing plot points or descriptions. Such a weird and unpleasant experience, would not recommend.