Mountains Made of Glass (Fairy Tale Retelling, #1) by Scarlett St. Clair

Mountains Made of Glass (Fairy Tale Retelling, #1) Reviews

• 
  jessica

  i have the hardest time giving short books a high rating because im always left wanting more. which is the case with this one, im afraid.
  
  i enjoyed the concept, found the world-building to be decent, and thought the cruel and spooky atmosphere very faithful to the origin of fairy tales. so when it comes to the retelling components, i think this works well. but as a romance, thats where it falls short for me. this just didnt have the depth to convince me that the characters really loved each other. i wanted more development, more connection, and a slower pacing to make the relationship progression be believable.
  
  but if you are the kind of reader that can be satisfied with a quicker, shorter length novel, especially one that is true to the original fairy tales, then i would definitely recommend picking this one up!
  
  thanks, sourcebooks/bloom books, for the ARC!
  
  ↠ 3.5 stars
• 
  Laura Thalassa

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
  
  So f*cking good. Consider me thoroughly wrecked.
  
  ***
  
  GIMME.
  
  C'mon Scarlett. I'm ready for you to wreck me again.
  
  P.S. Excuse me while I stare creepily at this gorgeous cover.
• 
  booksnpenguins (wingspan matters)

  "Oh, vicious creature," he said. "Are you here to kill me?"
  "If you give me a reason."
  "I could give you three."

  
  
  
  My favorite color is morally gray, my favorite book genre is novels that give off The Cruel Prince vibes.
  
  
  
  ***
  ⛰️𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗚𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦 - 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗧 𝗦𝗧. 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗥⛰️
  ★𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦: ⭐⭐⭐⭐½
  ★𝗬𝗔/𝗡𝗔/𝗔: 🅽🅰/🅰
  ★𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦: 𝙵𝙰𝙸𝚁𝚈 𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝚃𝙴𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶 #𝟷
  ★𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦: 𝙳𝙰𝚁𝙺 𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙰𝙽𝚃𝙰𝚂𝚈 - 𝚁𝙴𝚃𝙴𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶
  ★𝗣𝗢𝗩: 𝙳𝚄𝙰𝙻 𝙿𝙾𝚅 - 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝙿𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙾𝙽 - 𝙿𝙰𝚂𝚃 𝚃𝙴𝙽𝚂𝙴
  ★𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗦: 𝙴𝙽𝙴𝙼𝙸𝙴𝚂 𝚃𝙾 𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚂 - 𝙻𝚄𝚂𝚃 𝙰𝚃 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝚂𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃 - 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙰𝙻𝙻𝚈 𝙶𝚁𝙰𝚈 𝙼𝙼𝙲 - 𝙱𝙰𝙳𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙵𝙼𝙲 - 𝚃𝙾𝚄𝙲𝙷 𝙷𝙴𝚁 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙳𝙸𝙴 - 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝚃𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝙼𝙼𝙲 - 𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙰𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙲𝙰𝙻𝙻𝚈 𝙲𝙻𝚄𝙴𝙻𝙴𝚂𝚂 𝙼𝙼𝙲 - 𝚁𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙻𝙴𝚂𝚂 𝙵𝙰𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙻𝙼 - 𝙲𝚄𝚁𝚂𝙴𝚂 - 𝚄𝙽𝙳𝙴𝙽𝙸𝙰𝙱𝙻𝙴 𝙰𝚃𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙲𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 - 𝙰𝙶𝙴 𝙶𝙰𝙿 - 𝙵𝙰𝙴 𝚁𝙾𝚈𝙰𝙻𝚃𝚈
  ★𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦: 👥👥👥👥/𝟱
  ★𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼/𝟱
  ★𝗣𝗟𝗢𝗧: 📜📜📜½/𝟱
  ★𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗦 & 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦: 💀💀💀💀/𝟱 (𝙺𝙸𝙳𝙽𝙰𝙿𝙿𝙸𝙽𝙶 - 𝙲𝙰𝙿𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙸𝚃𝚈 - 𝚅𝙸𝙾𝙻𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 - 𝙼𝚄𝚁𝙳𝙴𝚁 - 𝙾𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙲𝚈𝚂𝙼 - 𝚄𝙽𝚁𝙴𝚀𝚄𝙸𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝚂𝙴𝚇𝚄𝙰𝙻 𝙰𝙳𝚅𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴𝚂 (𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙼𝙼𝙲) - 𝙴𝙼𝙾𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝙳𝙰𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙴 - 𝙶𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙵 - 𝙻𝙾𝚂𝚂 - 𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙳 - 𝙳𝙴𝙰𝚃𝙷 - 𝙳𝚄𝙱-𝙲𝙾𝙽 (𝙴𝙻𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝙼𝚄𝚃 𝚃𝙴𝙲𝙷𝙽𝙸𝙲𝙰𝙻 𝙲𝙾𝙽𝚃𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝚃𝙰𝙶))
  ★𝗦𝗠𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧/𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗬: 🔥🔥🔥🔥/𝟱 (𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙿𝙷𝙸𝙲 𝙺𝙸𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙽𝙶 - 𝚃𝙾𝚄𝙲𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 - 𝙾𝚁𝙰𝙻 𝚂𝙴𝚇 - 𝚂𝙴𝚇 - 𝙳𝚄𝙱 𝙲𝙾𝙽: 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚄𝙶𝙷 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚈'𝚁𝙴 𝙱𝙾𝚃𝙷 𝙿𝙸𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙳, 𝙵𝙼𝙲 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙼𝙼𝙲 𝙶𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙾 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝙸𝚁 𝙳𝙴𝚂𝙸𝚁𝙴𝚂 𝙷𝙰𝚅𝙴 𝚂𝙴𝚇 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙴 𝚄𝙽𝙳𝙴𝚁 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙻𝚄𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝙰 𝙻𝚄𝚂𝚃 𝙵𝙰𝙸𝚁𝚈'𝚂 𝚂𝙿𝙴𝙻𝙻)
  ★𝗦𝗠𝗨𝗧 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬: 🚒🚒🚒🚒/𝟱 (𝙱𝚁𝙴𝙰𝚃𝙷-𝙿𝙻𝙰𝚈 𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙺 - 𝚂𝙾 𝙵𝚄𝙲𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙷𝙾𝚃 𝙸'𝙼 𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝙾𝙽 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝙴)
  ★𝗦𝗠𝗨𝗧 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗬: 💣💣💣/𝟱
  ★𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦: 🤐🤐🤐🤐½/5 (𝙼𝙰𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙴 𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙶𝚄𝙰𝙶𝙴 - 𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙿𝙷𝙸𝙲 𝙳𝙴𝚂𝙲𝚁𝙸𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂 𝙾𝙵 𝚅𝙸𝙾𝙻𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴/𝚂𝙴𝚇))
  ★𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗬: 🌻🌻🌻🌻/𝟱
  ★𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬: 🌹🌹🌹🌹/𝟱 (𝙼𝚈 𝙼𝚄𝚁𝙳𝙴𝚁𝙾𝚄𝚂 𝙱𝙰𝙱𝙸𝙴𝚂 <𝟹)
  ★𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗦𝗧 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟: 💔💔½/𝟱
  ★𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 ����𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘: ❌
  ★𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘: 𝙵/𝙼
  ★𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗦-𝗧𝗢-𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦: 🖤🖤🖤½/𝟱
  ★𝗧𝗬𝗣𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚:𝙷𝙴𝙰
  ★𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚: 🎶
  𝙻𝙸𝙴𝚂 𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚁𝙺 - 𝚃𝙾𝚅𝙴 𝙻𝙾🎶
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  ***I always try to be as objective as I can with my ratings for DARK THEMES & TRIGGER WARNINGS, SMUT TECHNICAL CONTENT/INTENSITY, SMUT QUANTITY, ROMANCE QUANTITY, ANGST LEVEL, ENEMIES-TO-LOVERSNESS; the ratings for CHARACTERS, WRITING, PLOT, SMUT QUALITY, ROMANCE QUALITY, are instead tied to my own subjective reading experience and final opinion of the book.
  
  I loved this one soooooo much I don't even care it was short, tropey and full of smut.
  Who am I kidding.
  I'm actually pretty sure I loved this especially because it was short, tropey and full of smut.
  Sometimes you gotta scratch a particular itch, and this book didn't just scratch it.
  It scratched real good, too.
  
  

  Father used to say the forest was magic, but I believed otherwise. In fact, I did not think the forest was enchanted at all. She was alive, just as real and sentient as the fae who lived within. It was the fae who were magic, and they were as evil as she was.

  
  
  The perfect mixture between Holly Black's The Folk of Air and Rebecca F. Kenney
  Healer to the Ash King, Moutains Made of Glass was a perfect and dark fairytale, complete with all those elements I love in novels.
  It wasn't only exquisitely written, with some of the best quotable lines I've ever found in a an adult romantasy book, it was also entertaining to the max and peppered with the most delicious art.
  The setting of the Glass Muntains and the cursed forest was as eerie and atmospheric, as the apparition of many fantastical creature was spot on.
  Plotwise speaking, it wasn't the masterpiece of the century but I had tons of fun with it and the retelling aspect was so incredibly well done. Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White and Beauty and the Beast are only a few of the fairytales this story was inspired by, and damn, were they properly employed.
  If you're interested, * I'll add the author's personal list of fairytales and references she used as inspiration for this, at the bottom of this review.
  
  

  “When you rescued your princess, what happened?”
  The prince shrugged. “She was grateful.”
  “And?”
  “And?” he repeated, confused.
  “What else happened?”
  “We returned to her kingdom where her father declared that we would wed,” he said. Then he asked, “Did you rescue your princess?”
  “I did,” I said.
  “And what happened?”
  “I fucked her in the woods all night long.”

  
  
  St. Clair speaks to my aching heart with her idea of what makes a morally questionable character as gray as they can be. Prince Casamir was so damn gray, so freaking sexy, so deliciously ruthless.
  Can you tell I'm in love?
  I liked Gesela as well, even if she was a little annoying and way too naive , with her rushed decisions in the beginning, especially for a person as smart as she was described to be.
  The romance was chef's kiss. The dual pov and enemies-to-lovers trope gave me a perpetual stomach tingle, and the smut was so so so so good.
  "Choke me", FMC said at some point, and there I was, flying to the moon with heart palpitations and squeezed tighs.
  
  

  I met his gaze.
  “You were made for this,” I said.
  He smiled and asked, “Made for what, sweet creature?”
  Pleasure, I wanted to say. Sex.
  But instead, I answered, “Heartbreak.”

  
  
  The ending was simply perfect.
  I can see myself reading this again and again in the future.
  I'm gonna go read Scarlett St. Clair's entire backlist now, and pray this wasn't just a one-time thing.
  
  
  
  *
  -Andersen, Hans Christian. Best-Loved Fairy Tales.
  -Carruthers, Amelia. Snow White and Other Examples of Jealousy Unrewarded. Cookhill, Alcester, Warwickshire-
  -Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm. The Complete Grimms’ Fairy Tales.
  -Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm. The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
  -A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales.
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  Mai

  After I finish my backlog of retellings, I think it's time to retire this genre.
  
  The smut? Fine...
  
  The plot? Subpar.
  
  Gesela kills a toad that isn't a toad. Are you shocked? I'm shocked. There are seven princes. One is a beast. She goes to live with him. They fuck. They fall in love in less than seven days. She must guess his name or all goes to hell. But hasn't all already gone to hell? I'm too old for this shit.
  
  Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher.
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  Shirin T.

  7/10
  
  I have very different feelings about this, I mean... this was ok, even good in some ways, alas not close in another, and took me too long to read too short.
  
  Beauty and the Beast PLUS Grimms' Tales PLUS some kind of Alice in Wonderland, but don't count on it much PLUS typical Clair Dark Erotica.
  
  Casamir, the prince of Thorn, a beautiful and magnificent fae alas has been cursed by the Glass Mountains. When Gesela accidentally also brutally killed one of the seven brothers, the other five send her to the cursed brother to may break it by learning the real Casamir’s name.
  
  “There is always a curse, always a choice,”
  
  The beast’s realm, I mean Casamir’s realm, The Kingdom of Thorn is quite a thing, with hot Selkie, goblins who love blood, fairies here and there, Wolf the raven, and Enchanted forest.
  
  Gesela hates his jailor but this wouldn't stop her from wanting to fuck him, what was that, ah... passion and pleasure in hate!
  
  Give it a chance if you enjoy enemy-to-lover, duel POV, short and harsh stories. I'll probably read the second book, this world and the Brothers have potential, but I really hope the next be more engaging.
  
  Many thanks to SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Books via NetGalley for giving me a chance to read the first book of Fairy Tale Retelling, Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair, my review is honest and my own.
  
  
  Hades Saga Series 2 Books Collection Set By Scarlett St. Clair 9.25/10
  
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  Darcey

  post-read review:
  
  arc copy provided in exchange for an honest review. this in no way changes my rating or review.
  
  hmm not sure how to feel about this one!!
  
  on one hand it had less insta-love than i had feared, given the premise of the book was for our MC to fall in love with someone within a week, so i really appreciated that. instead, there was some intense enemies-to-lovers vibes, followed by some fun hate-fucking, and just a sprinkling of lovey-dovey behaviour. it was honestly very impressive how little insta-love there was!
  
  on the other hand, i wasn't sure how to feel about either character. maybe it's because the book was so short, but i just couldn't get attached to anyone. the MC was reasonably badass but also a little stupid, like i did spend a bit more time than i would've liked screaming at her... but hey, not everyone can be einstein. and at least i really liked a couple side characters, i honestly wish we got more of Wolf, Naeve and Mirror!
  
  i also really enjoyed the different mythologies and fairytale creatures and traditional storylines woven into one short book, it was very impressive and quite interesting to read about!
  
  there was some iffy stockholm syndrome kidnapping type vibes... but hey that's beauty and the beast for you, i knew what i was getting into. all things considered, this wasn't too bad, and it at least kept me entertained for a couple days :).
  
  thank you so much to the author, publisher and netgalley for the arc copy provided!
  
  ~~~
  
  pre-read review: JUST GOT ACCEPTED FOR THIS ARC 🎉🎉
  
  admittedly the book has already been released... but ah well, i'm still super excited to read this one!!! i've heard lots about the author :))
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  Annabella⁷ (blackford & henry li’s version)

  “She makes me feel like it won’t matter if I have a name or not. So long as I know her, I will know myself.”
  
  So this book is like fresh off the press right? And I impulse read it when I saw FAE, MAGIC, RETELLING, SPICY, and SHORT. Everything I’d like. Firstly, I always love the vibes and world with anything fae, I’ll eat that shiii up. It started off great: murder, fairytale zhuzh, attractive brothers showing up at the foot of your bed to deliver you to the even more attractive “beast” brother, a curse. But even for a short book, everything felt super rushed to me. Including some of the smut which had me lost🧍‍♀️. The hate lust was real😍. It was hard to buy the hate, lust and love though. Logic? We don’t know her. The characters were so unserious. Touch some grass. And if someone called me “creature” every other sentence, that would be my final straw. This emoji 😀 was me. This had a lot of potential for a full length book I feel. I just didn’t get enough time to connect. The last 30% got better, I liked the ending. And the land seemed so beautiful🤭. Overall a fun experience?😂 I did laugh a lot🤠. 3 stars⭐️
  
  “You are beautiful.”
  “You are getting very good at giving that compliment.”
  “It is easy to say when it is the truth.”
  
  “When you asked what I wanted most. I want you. I know myself when I am with you.”
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  acupofteaandabookplease

  I received a copy of this book from the publisher (via Netgalley) in exchange for an honest review.
  
  A fairytale retelling... and some spice??? Well... I had to ask for this book on Netgalley and damn I was happy I got it!!! I loved it so much!!! The characters are so stubborn (just how I love them) and the mix of many different fairytales makes the story so exciting! I definitely recommend this book if you like fantasy, fairytales, spicy romance and enemies to lovers trope!
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  Y'ALL FAIRY TALE RETELLINGS ARE MY SHIT I AM ECSTATIC FOR THIS BOOK
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  ❁ lilyreadsromance (and other stuffs too) ❁

  First of all, that cover? So freaking beautiful.
  
  Second of all, this author can really make a unique and fantastic retelling of anything. The richness of the lores (some borrowed and some she comes up with herself) is the most compelling part of the book.
  
  Third, I love all the side characters in this book. They came with their own interesting backstories, with their own agendas and it made the book feels so colourful.
  
  With that said, you might be wondering why I didn't give the book a higher rating. My problems lie with the romance and the heroine. This book probably spans around a week and in that week, she fell in love with him and he was less than that. Me? I couldn't feel anything between them except for some sexual tension. Hell, I don't think they even talk that much with each other. He gave his condition to escape his clutch, and she went on a journey to do so, and it didn't even matter in the end. He basically half-told the answer and *they fell in love* boohoo. What could've saved this was probably more time passing, longer pages, and a better way for her to find out his name. I mean, if she was really determined, she could've found out his name sooner by sucking his dick seven times in a row.
  
  Also, the heroine? Don't like her. Couldn't pinpoint exactly how she grates on my nerve but man, she's annoying.
  
  All in all, that's some petty criticism from me. It's still a pretty solid start to a series (hopefully we'll get more of this rich world soon).
• 
  Millie (aka the BOT) Cullen

  3.5 ⭐️
• 
  SabiReads

  2,5-3 ⭐️
  Read if you like:
  * Smutty Fantasy
  * Forced proximity
  * Dual POVs
  * Fairytale retellings
  * Prisoner / Captor
  
  I have been on the fence with Scarlett St Clair for a while now. You better do not get me started on Hades and Persephone. The Vampire one was also not my cup of tea.
  
  But it’s like with an addiction. You can’t stop. I had to press the request button. This sounded so fun and exciting. I do appreciate a good fairytale retelling. But I need my characters with a spine and a story in addition to the smut. I thought I give it another go!
  
  What I did like was the glossary in the beginning. Well written and thought out.
  
  Gesela lives in the village of Elk. It’s inhabitants falling from curse to curse, a never ending vicious circle. When it’s Geselle turn to kill the toad in the well, she hesitantly takes action. The following night she is confronted by five fairy princes. She killed the sixth brother who she thought a toad. As a punishment she is sent to the seventh brother, who is a beast. Can they end the curse?!
  
  The story started well enough. It even had promise. I liked that there were several fairytales mixed into one. I also liked that Gesela was no damsel in distress. Where I had a strong dislike for Persephone, Gesela was more a character to my liking. She wasn’t innocent nor naive, a perfectly morally grey character.
  
  I don’t mind smut. Not at all, especially not when it’s well done. But please, I need a story! For my taste, the smut shall not overshadow the story. Because this had so much potential. I was totally sucked in until 12 percent. Then it turned to smut, insta smut. I guess part of the problem is that this is a novella. I kind of get the insta love/attraction, but I was no fan of it. I need more character development. The world though was well described.
  
  But all in all I noticed that I fell into the St. Clair trap again. 🙄 though, the writing did improve since Persephone and Hades. It’s not cringe worthy this time around.
  
  Thank you @NetGalley, Sourcebooks Bloom Books and Scarlett St. Clair for letting me read “Mountains Made of Glass” in exchange for an honest review.
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  Lizzie Stewart

  This was really fun! Mountains Made of Glass is a fantastic smorgasbord of fairytale elements. There are curses, princes being turned into frogs, and prisoners who must discover their captor's true name in order to be released. As with all of Scarlett St. Clair's books, this is sexually explicit and not intended for YA readers. While I really enjoyed the fairytale elements of this story, I didn't completely buy into the love between the main characters. With the amount of detail about the attraction between them, it would have been nice to understand more why they loved each other. Yes, okay, they're both hot - what else?
  
  All in all, a fun, easy read. I've been enjoying the fairytale kick I've been on.
  
  Thanks so much to Scarlett St. Clair and Bloom Books for this ARC through NetGalley. Mountains Made of Glass is available as of March 7th, 2023.
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  Kassi George

  I got this as an ARC as I have loved everything that St.Clair has wrote. It starts as the beginning of the book and then goes straight into something that would be in the middle then back. I feel like you get no build up to the tension between the two main characters. I feel that this could be amazing if the timeline wasn’t all over the place.
  
  I mean do we really need the want for a man’s cock that you haven’t even met. Let the build up happen so that it is enemies to lovers not a fuck me now.
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  Brittany (Britt's Book Blurbs)

  Thanks to NetGalley & Bloom Books for an eARC of this book. The following review is my honest reflection on the text provided.
  
  2.5 stars
  
  I know I read an ARC, but this book feels like a really rough draft of a book proposal that has yet to be fleshed out, edited, and made whole.
  
  You can see the faint outline of so many fairy tales and some wonderful aspects of folklore from around the world, but the focus is forced upon two deeply unlikeable characters instead of digging deep into the rich possibilities that St. Clair sprinkles throughout the background. Too long to be a novella, but too short to feel like anything was given the depth it deserved, Mountains Made of Glass feels unfinished and juvenile.
  
  You really do get the fairy tale vibe from the story. Things happen one after another with little logic, and magic doesn’t have to make sense; it just exists. But what complicates this is the romance. Because the smut isn’t written like a fairy tale, it’s fantasy romance to its core (faes, instalove, and curses abound), and the juxtaposition between the romance and the narrative clash so awkwardly that I felt like I was reading two different books.
  
  This is, sadly, my first St. Clair read. I’ve heard such good things about her writing, but I may have to hold off a bit before trying again. I doubt I’ll continue with this series unless the next book has a much higher page count, hopefully signalling that more depth and complexity are worked into the narrative to develop a richer experience.
  
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  Rachel

  Warning: mild spoilers ahead
  
  You lost me when the main character, Gesela, popped into a fae prince's home who was kind of kidnapping her but wait, he's also sexy and is aroused by a random stranger popping up out of nowhere and Gesela is scared but also horny and I'm confused as to how it suddenly became a smut but also disturbingly similar to s*xual assault? It defies all logic and I simply cannot read anymore.
  
  I recommend this book to people who like sexy scenes and don't mind if it doesn't really make any sense.
  
  Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
  
  Side note: I really started struggling whenever Gesela was trying to save the frog but then in a fit of high emotions (?) ended up murdering it instead. Like huh
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  Kai

  St. Clair ties together many story book tales in this debut series. The story starts out with Gesela being her town’s outcast. She’s forced to break a curse that lands her prisoner of an Elven King for 6 years unless she guesses his name. Said Elven King and Gesela have a lust/hate relationship.
  
  This is a short, fast read! I thought it was really cute — a little insta lovey but it was also short so it kind of had to be! If you’ve enjoyed other books by this author you will likely be intrigued by this one as well! I’d read any future books in the series. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book!
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  Aragon

  Do I care that this is all sex? Absolutely not.
  
  None of us are reading this for the plot.
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  Eva Gavilli

  Bello questo libro di Scarlett St.Clair! Una fiaba che trae tantissimi suoi elementi dalle fiabe – più o meno famose – della nostra infanzia e dal folklore irlandese, ma non per questo manca di originalità, anzi, la trama è del tutto nuova, non è un re-telling di una storia già letta. Ci sono crudeli principi Fae, umani che ne vengono fatti prigionieri, rospi che non sono rospi, specchi magici (in questo caso, l'elemento comico della situazione! Le scene che lo vedono protagonista sono davvero spassose), armadi che sputano fuori bellissimi abiti a richiesta, mele d'oro, nomi segreti, accordi che hanno sempre un prezzo e – dato che la storia è comunque scritta da Scarlett St. Clair, tante scene molto spicy, alcune fin troppo (in un paio di casi ci avviciniamo più al volgare che allo spicy). La valutazione è di sole 4 stelle invece di 5 per un solo motivo: la brevità del racconto – più che un romanzo lo definirei una novella breve – che incide negativamente su trama e personaggi, che potevano essere approfinditi un pò di più, raccontandoci un pò del loro background e della storia che hanno vissuto per arrivare dove li abbiamo conosciuti. Tutto sommato, comunque, è promosso!
  ***
  How beautiful this book by Scarlett St. Clair! A fairy tale that draws many of its elements from fairy tales - more or less famous - of our childhood and from Irish folklore, but this does not mean it lacks originality, on the contrary, the plot is completely new, it is not a re-telling of a story already read. There are cruel Fae princes, humans being taken prisoner by them, toads that aren't toads, magic mirrors (in this case, the comical element of the situation! The scenes featuring the mirror are really hilarious), wardrobes spitting out beautiful clothes upon request, golden apples, secret names, agreements that always have a price and – given that the story is written by Scarlett St. Clair anyway, many very spicy scenes, some even too much (in a couple of cases we get closer to the vulgar than to spicy). The evaluation is only 4 stars instead of 5 for only one reason: the brevity of the story - more than a novel I would define it as a short novella - which negatively affects both plot and characters, which could have been deepened a little more, telling us something more about their background and the history they lived to get to where we met them. All in all, however, it is promoted!
  
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  Cocogiss (scusastavoleggendo)

  Okay hear me out… I started this with every good intention because I actually loved Scarlett writing in Ade X Persephone and I was overexcited for the theme and actually the theme and the plot is quite good but I can’t go over the fact that at 15% he managed to put his hand in her panties. There is a seriously pace problem with this because it would have been a solid enemies to lovers slow burn novel if it just had 250 more pages. But it would have required a more complex plot and a set of side character that we don’t find in this short novella.
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  Krystle Rouse

  I absolutely loved this book! Such an awesome conglomerate of fairytales! Enemies to lovers with duel POV. Such a fun read with fantasy, romance, suspense, and horror. Kept me on my toes the whole time! I can’t wait until the next one!
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  Hope ♡

  2.5 stars, 3 rounded up. I enjoyed this audiobook. It’s short, and the narrator has such a nice voice! She truly enhanced the experience and made this book so much better. The actual book has some problems. It felt too fast-paced, lacked depth, and the love connection was non-existent. The spice is spicy. I enjoyed the fairytale aspects/retelling components, but the smut was overbearing (For me.) I wish there was a better balance between the two. Overall, I would recommend the audiobook. I doubt I would have finished a physical copy.
  
  Thank you to Libro.fm for the audiobook.
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  Kaitlyn • kaitlyn_reads.books

  This book is everything I love about Scarlett St Clair wrapped in a quick and spicy fairytale retelling novella 🖤
  
  Mountains Made of Glass is a novella that Scarlett wrote just for the fun of it. And it shows and I love that for her and us readers. It takes inspiration from all different fairytales to create this unique enemies to lovers novella.
  
  This was such a fun read. I love a good fairytale retelling and this one hit the mark and then some. It was so unique and intriguing, and funny! I loved every minute.
  
  And even though it was a novella the romance was still believable- and I’m a slow burn girlie.
  
  I cannot wait read the rest of the novellas in the series when they come out!
  
  And if you haven’t read Scarlett St Clair this would be a great place to dip your toes in. It is quintessential Scarlett. You can see her writing style on every page. It reminded me of A Touch of Darkness in the best way 🖤 (and when Casimir asked “are you well” I squealed and immediately missed Hades)
  
  ✨Mountains Made of Glass✨
  📚 Dark Fairytale retelling, enemies to lovers, spicy 🌶️
  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
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  A Book Shrew

  Ways you can turn this book into a drinking game and be drunk before reading 50 pages:
  1. drink every time someone is called creature
  2. drink every time someone is called vicious
  3. drink every time something is called a "thing"
  
  Thank god this was short because what was even the point? I expected nothing of this and *still* had my expectations drop-kicked to the floor. The dialogue? Terrible. The story? C minus for effort. The world? Just for the hell of it, apparently. The characters? Could not care any less. The spice? Lol
  
  The overall potential to actually be good? OVERWHELMING AND UNDERTAPPED.
  
  The only reason this is two stars is because it made me laugh, except I don't think it was supposed to. Why do I keep giving Scarlett St. Clair a go when I'm currently batting one for four of her books that I actually liked? Homegirl saw the discourse around Lightlark and how everything was described as an adjective + "thing" and said hold my wine.
  
  I'm so frustrated that she never *digs* into anything. Just throws details out there because they sound good and then never does anything with them. Oh, she has fae blood? Just take my word for it because I shan't explain it and have lackluster sex scenes to write instead for no reason other than vibes. Gesela's home life, her parents, her sister, her guilt--St. Clair literally expects you to just forget about it because she's so fierce and hot and has a vocabulary that is half "fuck" and "you." The elven prince is literally no different. No characterization, only thinking about his dick every other paragraph.
  
  I know there are editors at Sourcebooks. Like, people are acquiring these books. But at this point I am begging those people to do literally one single thing because this is what? Book five in a row I've read from one of your imprints that I wish I had not spent the time on? *Begging* you to actually help shape these books into something I don't regret reading.
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  Stacee

  This had so much potential, but really fell flat.
  
  A lot of sex scenes when there could have been more world building (especially if there are to be more) or conversations. We were told they fell in love, but a few forehead kisses and a picnic didn't really sell that fact.
  
  I loved the idea and liked the characters, but this just didn't do it for me.
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  Julie - One Book More

  This is the first book in Scarlett St. Clair’s new Fairy Tale series, and it was a lot of fun. The story is short and quick, and it has a lot of action, intrigue, a magical fairyland, curses, morally grey characters, and an epic enemies-to-lovers romance.
  
  A quick and steamy romantasy, the story includes many recognizable fairy tale elements. From the magic mirror to the enchanted forest to the plethora of fantastical characters and creatures (love them, especially the mirror and the bird named Wolf!), the story feels steeped in tradition but has a fresh and spicy spin. It pulls from popular tales and has symbolic references and nods to stories like The Devil and the Three Golden Hairs, The Seven Ravens, Beauty and the Beast, Rumplestiltskin, and more.
  
  Get a fan, my friends, because this is a steamy one! Ella and Casamir have electric chemistry, and the room heats up every time they’re together. If you like love/hate relationships with fantastic banter, heated exchanges, and even more heated romance, then you should definitely check this one out.
  
  In addition to the spice, we also see both Casamir and Ella face their misgivings about love. Neither like being vulnerable and they resist fully opening up to each other. However, with all that chemistry zapping around, it proves difficult.
  
  "She makes me feel like it won't matter if I have a name or not. So long as I know her, I will know myself."
  And I love how Casamir tries to get love and courting advice from anyone who will listen. The magic mirror, the house brownie, and even a prisoner is questioned, though Casamir is not good at following through with the advice he receives, and he fumbles and bumbles more than he succeeds. It’s so sweet to see this dark, brooding, and usually unfeeling male fall head over heels in love.
  
  Ella isn’t much better at sharing her feelings and being courted, and she vacillates between being confused and angry, which makes for some tense and humorous scenes, as well as some heated arguments and misunderstandings. And the make-up time was super sexy. I loved every heated second!
  
  I’m really interested in Casamir’s brothers and am hoping that each will be the focus of future books. I have a feeling they will each have a unique story to tell, and I’m eager to see how all of their stories tie together and who will be crowned the king of Fairyland.
  
  Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of the book. All thoughts are my own.
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  Jenn (The Book Refuge)

  This was a cool little diverting story to dive into! The world of this fairy definitely evoked the atmosphere of darker and harsher fairy tales of recent years, but also has the bearing of shorter tales you might find in Grimm Brothers tales. Which I know from the author's note is something that she was trying to aim for, so it was spot on.
  
  I think it got right into business and we are introduced to what our heroine needs to do. We meet our prince and his scary prison castle full of dangers of all kinds. Pretty standard. There is a lot to like about it and I can see many romance readers enjoying it. The prince is mysterious and hot, bossy yet compelling. The heroine is feisty and refuses to fall under his spell while still wanting to understand the situation she has been thrust into.
  
  The biggest issue for me is that I didn't track their love story. Their banter was great, but they are both saying "I hate you" in every other second and then soon enough tearing each others clothes off. I don't see how we made it to the HEA the way we did.
  
  It was also written in a very confusing style for my personal taste. I believe this is also a nod to the fairy tales that inspired it, as that quality is there.... but still. It was awkward in a lot of places and I felt rushed.
  
  I don't know if I can help myself from trying another in the series though, so I guess job well done.
  
  3.5 stars
  2.5 on the spice scale
  
  CW: death, violence, attempted SA, dub-con, maiming, choking (consensual).
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  &#x1fae7;Liz&#x1fae7;

  Scarlett is the queen of writing the best retellings. Love.
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  Mara Ines

  This was such a cute book!!! U fall into it and can’t stop reading it. The spice was good and kept you hooked tbh, and the riddle to guess his name also kept you reading cause u wanted to figure it out. Definitely be reading the next ones that I hope they come out
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  jessica

  wow that was Not Good