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Vanessa North
Aug 24, 2013 rated it really liked it
Beautifully written, insanely clever, horribly uncomfortable. I loved huge large swaths of this book and wanted to hide from the rest. I'm not quite sure whether that's an endorsement or a warning. I can't remember the last time I felt this conflicted over a book.

This is a sparkling but sometimes ugly story about a not-very-nice man who falls in love with someone he simultaneously puts on a pedestal and sees as beneath him. I was never wholly convinced Ash deserved Darian, but found their relat
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Isabel
Aug 24, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Amazin... truly amazin!

Ash, writer, bi-polar and depressed, fears to love and fears to be loved! He hurts his friends and those that love him, because he is to afraid to give himself and to accept others!

And there is also Darian! What a fantastic character! Simple and naive, he accepts Ash as he is and his illness... Could it be so easy to Ash!

Read Darian's Essex accent was interesting and there are situations really funny!

Babes, you're gonna love this book!!!



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Kathleen
Book 2014 (5 stars): Utterly brilliant. Loved.

Audiobook 2025 (4 stars): I’ll admit that it was a different experience the second time around. Maybe was the difference between a book and an audiobook? Maybe it was more about changing tastes?

I first read Glitterland in 2014 and, wow, I was smitten. This time around, the sheer level of angst, the fact that I’ve fallen out of love with stories that focus on a relationship (and maybe the brilliant performance by the narrator bought this home), hampe
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Salsera1974
Apr 22, 2014 rated it it was amazing
What in the world took me so long to read this? (The cover. One of the worst covers ever.) I shouldn't have let it discourage me.


This was a beautiful story. Ash, our main character, is trapped in the prison of his own anxious, bipolar/depressed mind, and he hasn't found a thing -- prescription medication, sex, friendship, ambition -- that can release him from its hold. But one crazy night, he finds Darian -- a glittering, tacky, gorgeous, sweet, non-cynical man with an unfiltered approach to joy
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Joana
Oct 01, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: lgbtq, stand-alone
First of all I've got to thank Edub82 for the recommendation and for lending this ebook.
Thank you so much. :)

This is usual not the M/M type of read that I enjoy but I really like it. It was different and super sweet and adorable. It felt real and I felt like I really understood Ash in someways. Specially regarding his anxiety.

It was a lovely book.
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Amber
Mar 08, 2014 rated it liked it
I wanted to like this one but the accent was just too much for me. There were just to many time where I had to re-read a line several times to make out what Darian was saying. I didn't enjoy it, I didn't like the authenticity, I was just frustrated. I'm not a huge fan of British stuff anyway and I didn't get the Essex's thing so it just didn't appeal. Ash was an interesting character but I think this would have been better served with the beginning of his story with Nick and Max then this book f ...more
Gina
Aug 14, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: m-m
Taylor
Aug 23, 2013 marked it as d-n-eff
Kathy
Mar 21, 2023 rated it really liked it
Shelves: romance, m-m
Mark
Aug 26, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: gay-fiction, humour
Ahud
Sep 21, 2013 marked it as own-it-to-read
Kym
Oct 20, 2013 rated it did not like it
S E. Jakes
Oct 20, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Anna Hedley
Nov 08, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Denise
Nov 15, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: m-m
Amanda
Dec 31, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: next-in-queue
Star
Jan 28, 2014 marked it as to-read
Ayanna
Feb 28, 2014 marked it as to-read-pruned
Shelves: to-read-maybe
Kenya
May 03, 2014 rated it really liked it
Mary
Jun 10, 2014 rated it really liked it
Patrice
Sep 23, 2014 rated it really liked it
Daniel
Dec 06, 2014 marked it as to-read
Becky
Jul 02, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Morgan
Apr 24, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Raja
May 06, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Marsha Voelker
Apr 29, 2017 rated it really liked it
Denise
May 08, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition