Ultimate Nyssa Glass: The Complete Series

Ultimate Nyssa Glass: The Complete Series

470 pages

This is a mushy, unimaginative pablum of generic YA tropes, weird Christian prudery/moralizing, one-note characters and drab writing, sprinkled generously with the trappings of a steampunk setting without doing any of the actual work of worldbuilding.

I was honestly gonna give it two stars, the first story isn't awful. But they go quickly downhill, and the one about their first Christmas together actively annoyed me (just gets so deep into cliches and heteronormative gender roles and also utterly misrepresents partnered dance).

Avoid. Pick up anything by Cat Winters instead. Odd & True and The Cure for Dreaming would both be good bets.

July 2, 2018