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Sea of Broken Glass

By Jenna Pine
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Publisher Description

Banished from their small, floating village for forbidden magic, can two sisters work together before the harsh crystalline wilderness kills them—or they kill each other?

 

Elodie—desperate to become the village's next priestess—hopes to atone for their mother's magical destruction, still haunting her family after twenty years. Loxy, her younger sister, wants nothing more than to find their mother, banished long ago for the same magic Loxy now hides. Though they are bound by blood, the sisters live in constant contention, always arguing about Loxy's magic and the danger it poses to their lives in the village.

 

But when a meteor shower full of divine power grants Elodie magic of her own and gives Loxy new power, the two are cast out of their isolated, floating village, just like their mother before them, and into the crystalline wilderness full of dangerous beasts, deadly landscapes, and vicious people. They are destitute and alone when a voice calls to them, one steeped in the very source of their magic… along with a mysterious person who claims they know how to fix everything. With nowhere else to go, Loxy embraces the help and sets out to find the mother she's certain still lives, and Elodie reluctantly follows.

But with every step, each sister's hopes for the future deepen the rift between them. When they are finally confronted with the answers to all their questions, the sisters must learn to work together or lose each other—and perhaps their very humanity—forever.

 

Sea of Broken Glass is an adult fantasy starring two sisters and is filled with an exploration of family dynamics, deconstruction, and the restoration of things that are broken.

2 Reviews

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“I really enjoyed reading this book! The story was really captivating and, the author, Jenna, does a really good job at creating the magical world based on crystals and other elements of nature. The story follows Loxy and Elodie, two sisters, and their point of views through alternating chapters. Loxy has had magic pretty much all her life and then Elodie gets similar magic. This causes both of them to be banished from their village home. They embark on a thrilling journey in hopes of finding their mother, who was banished many years ago for having the same type of magic. Their journey is anything but smooth, from a stranger joining them on their journey, crystal wolves, and the unforgiving sea, to needing to rely on their magic to keep them alive and visiting different villages that hold secrets to their religious past. Both Loxy and Elodie discover more of who they are on their journey, both while together and apart. I was hoping that the characters would have the epiphany about their “travel companion” sooner. It felt a little weird that they didn’t make the connection until closer to the end of the book. You, as the reader, make the connection pretty quickly and the characters just seem to almost play dumb. Because of this, my true rating is 4.5 stars, but we can’t do half stars on here, so I rounded down. If you like adventurous, fast paced, LGBTQIA+ representation, magic, questioning religion and a story highlighting the importance of a sisterly bond, then The Sea of Broken Glass is for you!”
“Groans: SISTERS!!! This was abt a 3.5ish read for me, but I’m rounding up instead of my usual round down bc it’s a debut that i want to support, and I want to see more stories like this. SISTERS AS THE FOCUS!!! ugh. I am so happy. Overall, I had a good time with this—the sisters fraught relationship was a great hook for the story and i liked their dynamic; the magic and world building was interesting and engaging, and I love me a complicated goddess/some religious theology/trauma. The hints of queerness (ace & sapphic rep) being there were lovely, and I also loved that they weren’t the focus, the sisters were. I personally love a romance, but I also realllllllly love and wish there were more stories actually focused on familial and platonic bonds more often, especially in things like fantasy and scifi. I think, the reason this one didn’t grab me in a chokehold is that there was something that felt a little young (according to the notes at the end, it was originally YA, and I think that is slightly felt lingering in the tone and some of the sisters interactions) and near the end, it got juuuuust a little bit too heavy handed for my personal tastes, but the bones of it was a relationship i enjoyed, and a really interesting world, and I’d love to see more stories like this one.”

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