I was hoping for some epic seafaring fantasy full of magic from the blurb, but I found the book too focused on the smaller stakes, which would have been fine had I liked either protagonist. As it stands, it has too much bloody, mundane grimness for me - just bad things happening to amoral people, which is not really my cup of tea. DNFed at 30%.

A stellar book filled to the brim with action, bloody mayhem, and tension. The Glass Breaks is one of those books that just refused to be put down. Magical stuff.

I found this book quite enjoyable and entertaining. The world building is amazing, the characters are fleshed out, and the plot keeps you hooked.
I look forward to reading other books by this author.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

I enjoyed this book but not as much as I had hoped, I thought the world building was wonderful but I think the two different POV narration maybe was what I didn’t like so much. I like different POV narrative but it just didn’t seem to fit here and there seemed to be a lot of dithering, not much action and a lot of internal debates. Interesting but not enough that it made up for the lack of any real action for me.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion