The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass by Adan Jerreat-Poole || Review

I received an ARC from Netgalley, that doesn’t affect my opinion of the book, all my thoughts are my own and honest.

Eli isn’t just a teenage girl — she’s a made-thing that the witches created to hunt down ghosts in the human world. Trained to kill with her seven magical blades, Eli is a flawless machine, a deadly assassin.

When a mission goes wrong, Eli has to question her whole upbringing. She accompanies a few humans on a journey to help save their world. There she will question whether she is indeed a flawless killing machine.

The book follows three main characters, Cam a taxi driver who makes playlists. He was very funny and kind of a cinnamon roll. Tav the purple-haired motorcycle riding teen, they were very badass in difficult situations. Then there was Eli the assassin. I honestly felt sorry for Eli, she was created to be the perfect weapon and is looked at like she is a monster, but she’s not. She’s just confused about whether there is a way she doesn’t have to be a monster.

I really liked the premise but there were parts of the execution that let this book down. I liked the characters well enough, they all had very different personalities and their banter was fun to read. You didn’t know who to trust, whether everyone had their own motives and were just using Eli.

The main problem with the book was I found it extremely hard to imagine what the author was trying to envision, which made it very hard for me to enjoy the book. I like to imagine the book in my mind as I read it. If I can't do this I then find it difficult to immerse my self in the story.

Overall it wasn’t the best, but the reasons why I didn’t like the book, could come down to this being the author’s debut. I would like to see if the issues I had with the book improves with the next one in the series.

2 ⭐️

Thank you to NetGalley, Adan Jerreat-Poole and the publishers for approving me a copy.

When I was looking up the release date for this book I found a two different dates, so I am putting down the one that was the one on goodreads and Netgalley.

This comes out on the 6th of October