Glamour in Glass
A Fiction, Romance, Fantasy book. She sorted through the mail and held one elegant, hot-pressed envelope out to Jane. Here is one for David. Would...
Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the works of Jane Austen in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence. This magic comes in the form of glamour, which allows talented users to form practically any illusion they can imagine. Shades debuted to great acclaim and left readers eagerly awaiting its sequel. Glamour in Glass continues following the lives of beloved main characters Jane and Vincent, with a much deeper vein of drama and intrigue.In the tumultuous months after Napoleon abdicates his throne, Jane and Vincent go to Belgium for their honeymoon. While there, the deposed emperor escapes his exile in Elba, throwing the continent into turmoil. With no easy way back to England, Jane and Vincent’s concerns turn from enjoying their honeymoon…to escaping it.Left with no outward salvation, Jane must persevere over her trying personal circumstances and use her glamour to rescue her husband from prison . . . and hopefully prevent her newly built marriage from getting stranded on the shoals of another country's war.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9780765325617 / 765325616
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She sorted through the mail and held one elegant, hot-pressed envelope out to Jane. Here is one for David. Would you prefer me to leave it here, or have it sent over to him? Mary Robinette Kowal, Glamour in Glass //
I have a few problems with this book.*warning for feminism*The writing is still very good, but the plot is far less engaging. I want to give Kowal credit for diving in at the point where Austen et al always finish up, the heroine's successful marriage. But unfortunately Jane and Vincent's marriage just doesn't interest me. I find Vincent... This book was rather outside my usual reading habits, not to mention my outside my usual historical time frame. Generally speaking, if it happened between 1750 and 1980, I'm not terribly interested. That said, I really enjoyed this. Kowal does a startlingly good job of presenting a mindset that is very alien to me, specifically, that... Mary Robinette Kowal has a problem. The first line of her new novel Glamour In Glass somehow got cut out of the first edition. (For the record, the line is: There are few things in this world that can simultaneously delight and dismay in the same manner as a formal dinner party.) Despite that unfortunate glitch, I found Glamour In Glass...
