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A Crown of Ivy and Glass (The Middlemist Trilogy, #1)

Claire Legrand

Start date: June 1, 2023

Finish date: June 30, 2023

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May 25, 2023 akacya ❦ rated it really liked it

Shelves: audience-adult, arcs-finished, format-audiobook, genre-fantasy, buddy-reads

2023 reads: 164/350

Disclaimer: I received an arc from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my rating.

Gemma is from a wealthy and magical family. Though the rest of her family has magic, her body repels it. She meets Talan and decides to strike a deal with him: she’ll help him navigate high society if he helps her take down the Basks, a rival family. But everything quickly spirals out of control…

Something that caught me off-guard was the amount of sex ...more

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Nov 28, 2023 Jenn rated it it was ok

Shelves: romance, 2-star-reads, adult-fiction, disappointed, books-i-own, paranormal-supernatural, read-in-2023, fantasy

No one is more shocked than I to give a Claire Legrand book 2 stars. But alas, here we are.

When A Crown of Ivy and Glass was announced, I was stoked! I've been dying for Legrand to cross that barrier into adult and the cover was absolutely stunning. However, this was not the level of book I expected from someone who gave us the Furyborn trilogy.

Enter the world of the Middlemist. A land where Gods transferred their magic to select "Anointed" ones and where a magical mist threatens attack at any ...more

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Aug 21, 2025 Hayley rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy, magic, romantasy

soooo. why did I not dnf this book? I don't know. Optimism? The idea of the story was a good one. I liked what it could have been. Unfortunately, what it ended up being was a story that took me forever to read because i kept putting it down to read something else. The pace was all over the place, some bits took forever to accomplish anything, others happened in a few pages. I know this was supposed to be and adult book but it is 100% YA. The MC's read like teenagers having their first go at love ...more

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