The Girl with Glass Feet
Top 7 in Top 10 Best Magical Realism Novels
Readers of Alice Hoffman will like this creative and beautifully graphic tale about teenage lovers on a mission to discover a cure for a magical sickness. Strange things are happening on St. Hauda's Land, a lonely and snowbound archipelago. Unusual winged creatures flit over the freezing bogland, albino animals lurk in the snow-glazed woodlands, and Ida Maclaird slowly turns to glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander who has only been to the islands once. However, it was during that fateful visit that the glass change began, and she has now returned in quest of a cure.
Midas Crook is a young loner who has spent his entire life on the islands. Something about Ida's sorrowful, stubborn attitude pierces his emotional shields when he meets her. Midas progressively untangles his heart as he assists Ida in coming to grips with her illness. Love must be paid in precious hours, and time is slipping away quickly as the glass encroaches. Will they be able to stop the spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly inventive and enchanting debut novel, a treasured love story.
Detailed information:
Author: Ali Shaw
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/6063110-the-girl-with-glass-feet
Midas Crook is a young loner who has spent his entire life on the islands. Something about Ida's sorrowful, stubborn attitude pierces his emotional shields when he meets her. Midas progressively untangles his heart as he assists Ida in coming to grips with her illness. Love must be paid in precious hours, and time is slipping away quickly as the glass encroaches. Will they be able to stop the spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly inventive and enchanting debut novel, a treasured love story.
Detailed information:
Author: Ali Shaw
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/6063110-the-girl-with-glass-feet
