The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

evillebibliophile@evpl — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:02:00 GMT

I just finished this book a few days ago, and I still have yet to find the right words to describe it. Here is what I wrote on GoodReads right after I read it:

At once monochrome, dull, and gray and at the same time hauntingly beautiful, The Girl with Glass Feet is a timeless love story doomed from the beginning. But though it is full of hopelessness it is also full of hope. Though it is unrealistic in its portrayal of the natural order of things, it is at the same time uncannily pure in its portrayal of the pain and wonderfulness of love. It takes the reader on a journey that is strange and unearthly but at the same time to a place of which we all, as human beings, are painfully familiar. This is a story of pain, of loss, of cowardice, of bravery, but most importantly, of what we can accomplish because of the love of others. It shows us that we need not be bound by our past. In a word, it is beautiful.

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UndergroundLibrarian@evpl — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:16:00 GMT

Love Is Hell. That's the title of this book of short stories, each one by a different author and each one containing a supernatural being. And as in all good supernatural love stories, it takes the girl a while to discover that the boy she is interested in is indeed not exactly human. Scott Westerfield's story is exclusively about humans, but it's set in the future when humans have so many other powers -- this story is about a class in school where each kid has to give up some modern attribute and try living without it for a while. How he fits this into a love story makes for interesting reading. Other stories include faery folk, selkies, and of course ghosts. All of them are good!

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The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

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