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Title	:	The Girl With Glass Feet
Author	:	Ali Shaw
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2009 by Atlantic Books
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Magical Realism. Romance. Young Adult

The Girl With Glass Feet Hardcover | Pages: 292 pages

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Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land. Magical winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts who has only visited the islands once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure.

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Original Title:	The Girl with Glass Feet
ISBN:	1843549182 (ISBN13: 9781843549185)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ida Maclaird, Midas Crook, Henry Fuwa
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2009), Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009), Desmond Elliott Prize (2010), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2012)

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I stalled out on this one at 215 pages and discovered that I really couldn't care less about what happened in the remaining 70 pages. I read the end and called it good. I won't exactly rush to read one of Shaw's other books either.

I did not enjoy this book.The blurb and the cover drew me in, the promise of albino animals and glowing jellyfish and a girl slowly turning to glass. I am not a fan of romantic fiction, not in any sense at all, and so this was a novel that was never going to be for me, and did not realise how much of this was going to be based on the romances of every character introduced when I picked it up.Overall, it feels so flat. I found myself unable to connect with any of the characters or to really care

I was really pleased when I was offered an advanced reader copy of Ali Shaw's debut novel. I was intrigued by the synopsis. It seemed like just the kind of book I enjoy most. The Girl with Glass Feet is the story of Midas Crook, a young man who uses his camera to shield him from the world, and Ida Maclaird, the titular character (and if there is a single protagonist it is Midas not Ida). The novel is also very much concerned with its setting, the strange, snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda's

The premise of this novel is quite arresting: after a short visit on her mother's birthplace, the Northern Archipelago of St. Hauda's Land, where strange people live and even stranger things happen, young Ida Maclaird's feet have transformed into glass and moreover, the "glass infection" in her body is slowly spreading. From a chance conversation with secluded island naturalist Henry Fuwa, she believes her strange illness is peculiar to St. Hauda's Lands so she must go back if she has any hope

An amazing idea, gorgeous prose... and a completely boring middle. This book would have fared better as a short story. There is so much to love about this book (i. e. the descriptiveness) but that is exactly what weighs this book down. I read the first couple chapters, got bored out of my mind, and skipped to the end. And the sad part is, I don't feel like I missed anything by skipping the middle. The end is where the best stuff is. All my skipping around could have been avoided by making this

Finished. Finally. This book was a struggle, but I was determined to finish it. The story is creative in a way that it triggered me to want to read it. But after starting it, it soon became apparent that the main characters were not fully developed. It all read very flat to me and I noticed myself stopping to care about them, about what was happening to them and where it all would lead. I have read too many mediocre books lately to quite this one too, so I decided I wanted to finish. In the end,

Usually Im not into fairy tales or fantasy books. "The Girl with Glass Feet" isnt any of this, but there are phantastic elements in it and I enjoyed them very much. But mostly it is the extraordinaraly description of the two main figures that makes this book so outstanding to me. Life sureley can be horrible and using the lens of a camera to get some space between you and the world might seem a good plan, but finally it fails...