This was such a cute story with a mythical feel to it. The author does such a great job of tailoring this to the young adult reader and the characters are so well developed and likable except for most of the adults. The description of the characters as well as the surroundings was just amazing. I could honestly feel like I was there.

5 out of 5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley as well as the author/publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my unbiased and honest review.

Great middle grade level fantasy. Any Magic/dragon loving 11 year old would like this book. Thank you netgalley for the digital copy. I look forward to more from this author.

I enjoyed this middle-grade novel. I loved the writing style. The character development was good I really liked how kind and inspiring the character Gloria was.

this was a good start to a children's novel, the characters were great and I enjoyed going through this journey with them.

Glory is a young girl who finds herself (and her friend) thrust into a world of magic and mystery. In their journey they find more questions than answers.

This is an interesting story but it took a bit to get into. For the first third of the book I wasn't really sure what was happening. There was so much information thrown out and none of it felt fleshed out enough.

I didn't really feel much of a connection with Glory or her friend Lintie. They seemed too annoying and inexperienced in critical thinking. But after a while they calmed down and grew a touch. Most of the other characters felt kind of forgettable, mainly because there were so many and we didn't really spend a lot of time getting to know a few of them.

After the first half I found myself enjoying the story and the adventure the girls were going on. The end is a bit of a cliffhanger and I really need to know what is going to happen. We got a decent reveal that I can't wait to see fleshed out a bit more.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Sooo many mysteries left unsolved, and CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*sighs*
Well, this book defined awesome in a new way, and you cannot separate yourself from this book even for a minute cause it is marvelous, the way the author describes the places and the happening is stupendous!
And how he wraps the story in 6 pages, I was freaking out at the end how can the author end it in less pages, but that he did!
The imagination of the author stands out and this is definitely one of the best fantasy book I have ever read!

It was a good book. I liked how the characters were developed, though most of the adults were unlikable.

The harpies have beautiful faces and the bodies of vultures. There is the mythical aspect to this story.

A young girl gets to be the heroine in this story.

I received an advanced copy from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I take it as a matter of professional pride to completely read every ARC I review before writing my report. However, I was about 100 pages into this one and I was perplexed to discover that I still have absolutely no idea what's going on. It really needs some serious developmental and copy editing. I'm so scared for this book: it is built on such beautiful ideas, but I have a feeling it's going to be ripped apart for technical reasons. While the proofreading is almost flawless, the book has many problems with unclear sentence structure, over-explaining things that don't need to be explained, under-explaining key things the reader needs to know, misplaced modifiers, odd word choices, confusing transitions and unclear organization. There are also some issues with appropriateness, as no library or school is going to accept a middle grade fiction with graphic descriptions of drunkenness and child abuse along with PG-13-rated swearing. I would love to be able to give this book a fair review and would be happy to read it again once the significant editing issues are taken care of, but right now I cannot focus on the story because the writing is so problematic.

I wanted to like this book - I truly did. It has a wonderful premise, based on multiple worlds, hidden, unknown destinies, children who rise above their lives, orphans who come into their own - but it is just so badly written that I couldn't get past the prose to truly appreciate the story. The writing style is a cross between William Shatner's overblown and stilted annunciation and a bad translation; for example "Her faded pink top was patched in many places and did not look pinkish anymore. Her old trousers that used to be white had turned pale." Details about the setting are changed later in the book - for example, early in the novel, a thunderstorm causes the electricity to go out, but toward the end, the same setting hasn't yet developed electricity for home use. And then there are the parts of the story that appear to have been lifted almost bodily from other books, most notably, the talking trees that object to having their apples picked, which appear to have come straight from The Wizard of Oz.

It's really too bad that the prose is so bad, because the underlying story is interesting. Glory, an adopted child living with her alcoholic father and abusive cousin, discovers Roslyn, a baby with the head of an elephant that hatches from a shell. This leads Glory and her friend Saili (nicknamed Lintie by Glory, but no one else is allowed to call her Lintie, for a reason that is never explained - another confusing point that detracts from the story, as people call her Lintie and she gets angry - but no one knows why) on a quest through multiple fantasy worlds, seeking Roslyn's parents. This quest is a key point in the novel, and leads them to meet people and creatures throughout the worlds, who, as is common in fantasy, either help or hinder, according to their inclinations. Ultimately, the quest reaches its end, with both success and failure; some in ways that were foreshadowed in the book and at least one surprise that appears to have no connection to previous events in the book. It seems, in some ways, like the author couldn't find an ending that followed the existing plot, and added a character and event here and there toward the end to allow for a resolution. This story has promise, but it needs some serious editing.

Thankyou to netgalley for allowing me to have a copy of this book. Unfortunately i did have to DNF this book as i just could not get into the story.

This is a middle-grade novel which I believe is a translation from an Indian dialect, and the language is very simplistic and unsophisticated. I don't know if that's because of how the original was written, or because of a poor translation, but what seemed charming to begin with soon turned into an annoyance and I was unable to finish the story because I lost interest in it. Because of the style and the awkward phrasing, the story very much reads like English as a second language and while that's a relatively minor problem as far as I'm concerned, when it comes coupled with the story itself being not an engaging one, it makes for a disenchanting read.

The beginning featured main character Glory, who was treated unnecessarily harshly to the point where the story was depressing. Before we had a chance to get to know her at all, the story then switched to a different world entirely and seemed to get stuck there. At first, this was a relief because I did not like Glory's story, all depression with no relief, but this new one featuring a gnome turned out to be worse. I didn't like the gnome, and the tale became really rambling, and dissipated into extraneous detail that contributed nothing to moving the story along. It was like the author was so enamored of the world that had been created here that actually telling a story in it seemed irrelevant. Consequently, it felt like nothing was happening and I lost all interest in pursuing it.

The story is supposedly about Glory, who is an eleven-year-old orphan. We're told she has a beautiful heart, but there's no real sign of that in the part I read that featured her. Glory's 'companion' - a tiny dragon that appears on her hand - made a couple of appearances, but Glory seemed like she had zero curiosity about what this was and why she had it. It in turn made the dragon uninteresting because it appeared to do nothing save lead her to an egg from which hatched a little elephant-headed creature.

It was at this point that I gave up because the story seemed completely random, going around in circles and leading nowhere. I wish the author all the best but I could not get interested in this story or in any of the characters.

This middle-grade book is the first in a six-book series. The story follows young Glory and Lintie, who discover a magical creature named Roselyn, which guides them to other worlds in search of the "Heart of Universe."
The book is really fast-paced and succeeds in capturing the readers' attention from the very start. It has everything starting from royals, demons, faeries, dragons, ghosts, and tons of other mythical creatures of the hidden worlds which are fun to acquaint with and will keep you entertained. The writing style is dark and gives off a vintage vibe, which I enjoyed tremendously. It has many dark characters (mostly hateful adults) and delightful protagonists. It takes you right back to your childhood days when you read stories about dreams and misunderstanding "grown-ups." Overall the story is engaging and fun to read, however, there are many issues with the book.
The biggest issue with the book was - the audience. It is supposed to be a middle-grade book, but it was very confusing because majority of the book read like a young adult book. The thoughts and language of the main characters definitely didn't suit their age. It seemed like Tushar, was aiming for a larger audience but ended up mixing age genres.
The story proceeds quite slowly, but that's expected since it's the first book and there is a lot of world-building, which is a tad bit too much for a middle-grade book. One very disappointing aspect of the story is that there is not a single memorable villain. All the antagonists seemed to be present just for sake of it and for providing obstacles.
The story was in general fun to read, imaginative, and like I said entertaining. But I don't think I will continue the series

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I really liked Glory, I thought she was really sweet, despite the heartrending things she had been thru in her life. I look forward to Reading further books by this author.

It was a wonderful book.
I like the writing style. I really enjoy the characters, but most of the adult characters are really unlikeable. But I must say the credit goes to the writing as it successfully made me hate such characters all over again. I like the plot that is built on the concept of multiple hidden worlds.
This book is full of adventure and intense dark characters to begin with. The reading might slow down a lot considering the fact that there is so much happening in this world and much information to take in.
This book has got the royals, the demons, the gods, the faeries, dragons, wizards, witches and mythical creatures of the hidden worlds which you will find easy to know and some you will be afraid of.
This book is difficult for me to read. I just had to take in a lot of things and yes, many things can go over your head because there's a lot to take in.
The highlight of the book is the complex world building, the numerous intense characters and the friendship between Glory and her friends.
I just love the side characters. These are some of the things that I love in the books, I really love how the author created this magnificent world and these amazing characters.
I really liked the book. It’s not my favorite book in the world but I enjoyed it.
If you are a fantasy fan, you need to read this book.