On her 13th birthday, Avery is out playing in the woods when she finds herself captured. The next thing she knows, she's living behind the castle walls within a community of other 13-year-old orphans who are secretly performing all the work for the castle. Why are they all here? Who has ordered the 13-year-olds captured, and why?
The premise of this story was intriguing enough for me to choose it to review; but I had a hard time accepting the world once I tried to enter it. Why are all of the kids 13? Why does nobody question this? Who's in charge? While I wanted to like these kids, and root for them, I wasn't even entirely sure what I would be rooting for. In order to feel invested in these characters, I felt like there needed to be more background to the world within which they were living, and I needed more life stories to get to know them as characters.
Also, from the ending, this is clearly the beginning to a new series, but nowhere within the description was that made clear. It is a pet peeve of mine to start a book not knowing it is not going to come to a satisfying conclusion.
I give this book 2 stars. I don't even know if I care about these characters enough at this point to follow up if and when the next book is released. That's unfortunate, because I thought the plot sounded fairly original, and I was interested to see where it could go.
I received a copy of this e-book from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review.
You can find The Glass Castle HERE.
You can find Jerry Jenkins' website HERE.
You can find the publisher, Shiloh Run Press - an imprint of Barbour Publishing, HERE.
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