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Glass Heart (Cold Kiss Book 2) Kindle Edition
Fans of Beautiful Creatures will fall head over heels for Glass Heart by Amy Garvey, with its blend of breathless suspense, passionate romance, and magic.
In Cold Kiss, Wren Darby learned she had powers strong enough to bring her dead boyfriend back to life. She thought she had to keep these powers a secret from everyone, until she met Gabriel, a mind reader who instantly learned her deepest secret.
In the sequel, Glass Heart, Wren is torn between her love for Gabriel and the rush of exploring her powers. When Gabriel warns Wren that her powers are getting out of control, Wren begins spending more time with Bay and Fiona, whose magic is wild, exhilarating—and dangerous.
And by the time Wren realizes Gabriel was right, she may already have lost him.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperTeen
- Publication dateSeptember 18, 2012
- Reading age13 - 17 years
- Grade level8 - 12
- File size490 KB
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From School Library Journal
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“The dialogue and teen situations ring true.” (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA))
From the Inside Flap
Wren can do things that other people can only dream of. Make it snow on a clear, crisp day. Fly through an abandoned tunnel. Bring a paper bird to life.
Wren knows her abilities are tinged with danger--knows how easy it is to lose control--but she can't resist the intoxicating rush. And now that she has Gabriel by her side, someone who knows what she can do--what she has done--she finally feels free to be herself.
But as Wren explores the possibilities of her simmering powers, Gabriel starts pushing her away. Telling her to be careful. Telling her to stop. The more he cautions her, the more determined Wren becomes to prove that she can handle things on her own. And by the time she realizes that Gabriel may be right, it could be too late to bring him back to her side.
--Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Back Cover
Wren can do things that other people can only dream of. Make it snow on a clear, crisp day. Fly through an abandoned tunnel. Bring a paper bird to life.
Wren knows her abilities are tinged with danger—knows how easy it is to lose control—but she can't resist the intoxicating rush. And now that she has Gabriel by her side, someone who knows what she can do—what she has done—she finally feels free to be herself.
But as Wren explores the possibilities of her simmering powers, Gabriel starts pushing her away. Telling her to be careful. Telling her to stop. The more he cautions her, the more determined Wren becomes to prove that she can handle things on her own. And by the time she realizes that Gabriel may be right, it could be too late to bring him back to her side.
About the Author
Amy Garvey is a former editor who now works on the other side of the desk as an author. She grew up reading everything she could get her hands on, watching too much TV, and wishing she was Samantha Stephens from Bewitched. (She still wishes that, actually.) She’s always busy writing something (when she’s not obsessively discussing TV’s Supernatural with her friends online and thinking about cupcakes). Amy is also the author of Cold Kiss. She lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with her family.
Product details
- ASIN : B007HBY9UW
- Publisher : HarperTeen (September 18, 2012)
- Publication date : September 18, 2012
- Language : English
- File size : 490 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 325 pages
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After the heart wrenching story of Cold Kiss, it was nice to see Wren happy and in love once again. It's a different type of love, though. Not only because you can only have one first love, but because Wren isn't the same person with Gabriel as she was with Danny. She's also exploring the paranormal side to her a little more. It's this testing of her powers that leads to Gabriel revealing he's not entirely comfortable with that, and that hurts Wren. She feels a little rejected and instead of continuing to explore her powers in the safe way she knows, she starts to get a little more reckless.
While I feel like both the romantic and paranormal sides of this book are explored well, I wish there had been a little bit more on Bay and Fiona, the people Wren starts to hang out with after feeling put off my Gabriel, and their involvement in the novel. It was the only thing holding my back from thinking this book was completely perfect.
Amy Garvey wrote yet another wonderfully sweet, romantic paranormal story that had me falling in love with her words all over again. There's something special in the way Garvey tells her story. There's a lot of heart without it weighing the book down. It's emotional, but in a fantastic way. Garvey is definitely a Young Adult author to keep your eye on.
So I really like the concept of the story and the whole story line. I like the whole witch aspect of it all quite a lot. And I love the names of the characters, which doesn't really matter, but yet I want to comment just cause I love the names so much. I also really like Gabriel, a lot. I actually don't have any complaints about him at all. He was totally the kind of guy I like to read about. He's not a bad boy or anything, he's just a normal guy and really nice. And hot, apparently.
So now we're back to Wren. In the previous book she dealt with her dead boyfriend who she brought back to life and should have learned her lesson about her powers. But yet I understood she wanted to experiment with them a bit so when she met two people who also have powers she was drawn to them and wanted to be friends with them. I never understood why she'd want to be friends with Fiona and Bay. They never showed anything likable about them. At all. But in Wren's defense, she actually started noticing things a bit 'off' about them fairly quickly. It's just too bad she wasn't smart enough to listen to that little voice inside her telling her to stay away from them. And while hanging out with them she's blowing off Gabriel and making up excuses to herself about why he's not good for her, etc. I just didn't really get that. So my issue is her bringing a bunch of unnecessary drama to their relationship. Oh, and also I didn't get her whole father issue. She's told she can see her father when she's ready, and we don't know what the deal with him is, at all. But instead of being curious about it she's just mad and refuses to see him which makes it so her sister can't see him and she clearly really wants to. This aspect also drove me slightly crazy. And I didn't understand why her mom was so secretive about stuff.
Another thing is that there's a slight mystery as there's a boy that goes missing. This mystery was something I had figured out almost the moment we hear about him going missing. Yeah, maybe not all the details of it, but the general idea of what happened. That kind of made it so I never had that urge to know more and keep reading to find out. It wasn't a huge issue for me, but it's something that could have been expanded on and a bit more suspenseful.
Now Wren drove me a bit nuts in this book, but like I said, I like the concept and witchy factor in the book. It was an enjoyable read for the most part. I just wanted to slap Wren a time or two about her stupidity.
I still enjoyed seeing the story unfold, but I was somewhat disappointed by how mono-dimensional it turned out. I wish I could give it 3.5 stars.