GREAT story. ...shattered glass is hard to see through...

One of those stars has teeth marks on it. Glass is SUCH an asshole. Yes, reasons, but he's just lucky a few people can endure. Saving grace is, he's also funny (and other, mushier things he'd rather joke about). Dani Alexander's skill in showing us Glass's internal thoughts when we STILL don't get what he means until much later - even telling you that won't help - is the best illustration of how subjective each of us is that I've ever read.

Glass is an unreliable narrator. We all are, in real life. I had to stop and tweet about it: "All narrators are unreliable, did you know that? / As events unfold, you learn if any trust you gave was warranted. You might be fooled, but you have to choose. In both fiction and real life, none of us knows the whole truth. None of us is free of self-delusion."

In Shattered Glass, no one's simple, and since it's all Glass's perspective, quite a lot is bewildering or repelling that I would've understood easily. I am in awe of this author's skill. I hit the 50% mark ready to kill our main character, and then I didn't stop reading until I hit the end - and this is a lengthy book. I went to sleep with a heck of a book hangover, and just now noticed that there are two more books in this series! *adds to want to read list*

Content Warnings: References to past cheating, but no on-page cheating. References to current but off-page human trafficking, child prostitution, and rape. On-page shooting. Drug use references and depiction, one on-page use -- I was pleasantly startled by the intelligence in this scene. There is a lot of name-calling, by Glass. (He's an ass with not just issues but whole subscriptions, i.e.: lots to learn.)

Bottom line: Yes read this one. Yes it all makes sense by the end. Yes. ( )

It was almost an instant classic

I really liked most everything about this book. I loved the characters. Austin was a excellent narrator. And I kind of fell in love with him for the most part. The story was exciting even though the details of the crime and mystery sometimes didn't make that much sense or they weren't clear. The sex scenes were freaking good but.. a. The word whore was thrown around a little bit too much. B. (Spolers)... Which character was going to be there top was built up to be kinda of a thing. Austin and Peter's banter regarding their first time actually fucking was hot and anticipated. But they still haden't had anal sex and then it was the epilogue 3 years later and the much anticipated action happened off screen sometime in the past. . Why? The sex scenes were hot and detailed and building up to a big thing and... Nothing. I don't get it but was really fun and funny book. ( )

It was almost an instant classic

I really liked most everything about this book. I loved the characters. Austin was a excellent narrator. And I kind of fell in love with him for the most part. The story was exciting even though the details of the crime and mystery sometimes didn't make that much sense or they weren't clear. The sex scenes were freaking good but.. a. The word whore was thrown around a little bit too much. B. (Spolers)... Which character was going to be there top was built up to be kinda of a thing. Austin and Peter's banter regarding their first time actually fucking was hot and anticipated. But they still haden't had anal sex and then it was the epilogue 3 years later and the much anticipated action happened off screen sometime in the past. . Why? The sex scenes were hot and detailed and building up to a big thing and... Nothing. I don't get it but was really fun and funny book. ( )

I wanted to love this story, but I just felt like Peter and Austin were all over the place. Like I kept feeling that Peter was using Austin just to get what he needed, and Austin sort of picked up on it but never really confronted him about it. Then finding out Peter is actually straight, but he typically has sex with guys including Darryl?! I guess I just never really felt any chemistry or connection between Peter and Austin. I do love Cai though, and I hope he gets his FBI agent! ( )

I wanted to love this story, but I just felt like Peter and Austin were all over the place. Like I kept feeling that Peter was using Austin just to get what he needed, and Austin sort of picked up on it but never really confronted him about it. Then finding out Peter is actually straight, but he typically has sex with guys including Darryl?! I guess I just never really felt any chemistry or connection between Peter and Austin. I do love Cai though, and I hope he gets his FBI agent! ( )