Mountains Made of Glass follows Gesela, our FMC as she is scarificed by her village to their ancient curse. The seven Elven brothers from the enchanted wood come to take her as payment. Where she ends up as prisoner to the Thorn Prince, challenged to discover his true name within 7 days.

This is a spicy fairytale retelling with a tall dark and handsome fae mmc. I did enjoy this, I loved the setting with his castle being half castle and half garden, even if I found this slightly confusing. I enjoyed all the creatures we met along the way and I also enjoyed the development of their relationship.

My biggest criticism of this is the length and pacing, it’s a short read at just over 200 pages, but I feel like it probably could have done with longer, to include richer world building and understanding a bit more. There were moments that moved to fast and felt rushed and then moments that I felt were too slow and unnecessary and took away from the detail that was needed.

I will read the others within this world as I am intrigued to see where it goes and what it is to come, I am hoping that in the next one there may be a bit more world building and detail.

There are illustrations through this book which I thought were so beautiful and added such a nice touch.