Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I wasted money buying this book. Just like most other YA books, this has everything you're not looking for: a female characters who is pretty without knowing it; a brooding, secretive love interest that evolves into a will they won't they relationship; and a mysterious villian. This is supposed to be about an unbreakable bond between the sisters, except one is only in about 15% of the novel. There was no depth to their relationship, only tiny bits of shared horror stories that really weren't all that pearl-clutching. There was no real depth to the characters at all, we never got to know them, and I felt like their arc was flat. The imagery was meh for me. Sure, throw in a whole bunch of adverbs and adjectives that imbue glitter and sparkle, but this reads like you're just trying to fill up space on the page. It becomes repetitive and heavy. I found myself skimming ahead a ton of this book just to get through the descriptions. World building is great when you're not smacked in the face with us. What's the novel-writing adage... Show, don't tell? We're definitely told. Over and over and over and over. This glittered, that sparkled, this shone. Ugh. And in between all of this, we are supposed to care about this character searching for her sister because... she's her sister? Beyond that, there wasn't an established relationship that made me cheer Scarlett on in the race to find her. Do yourself a favor and buy this book when it's on sale, skim the pages and read the end. You won't miss much.