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Love Under Glasse Kindle Edition

by Kristina Meister (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
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This runaway might want to get caught.

El Glasse’s mother controls her life. What she does, who she dates, even what she’s allowed to say. El only has two ways of holding onto her freedom. One is her popular anonymous blog, hidden from Mama Glasse. The other is what she so often blogs about: her feelings for Riley, the girl who works at the ice cream parlor. Riley is fierce, free, and rides a killer motorcycle, and El cannot help but love her. But Mama Glasse can never find out about her sexuality—unless El is willing to rebel.

When El runs away, Riley feels responsible. She knows what it’s like to be alone, and she can’t deny her deep desire to learn El’s story. In a move she might end up regretting, she makes a devil’s bargain with Mama Glasse to hunt El down.

Riley isn’t trying to bring her home though, because she knows an evil spell when she sees one—a spell of fear and shame El is finally starting to break. This huntress might lose her own heart, but it’s a risk she’s willing to take.

Word count: 103,000; page count: 325
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  1. Print length
    361 pages
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publication date
    August 26, 2019
  5. File size
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07WS2YL1V
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Riptide Publishing (August 26, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 26, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2657 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 361 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 125 ratings

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4.4 out of 5 stars
125 global ratings

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Customers find the storyline great, fun to focus on, and wonderful. They also appreciate the character development and plot twists.

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Customers find the storyline great, fun to focus on, and wonderful. They also say it's a good story of young love.

"A wonderful coming of age story.El is desperately trying to earn her mother's approval...." Read more

"...That's also why it's so good. The Snow White storyline was fun to focus on when the rest was feeling a bit too realistic." Read more

"...Barely put it down for work and sleep for two days. Good story of young love fighting family ignorance/denial...." Read more

"...I really loved the writing style and the characters. The story was very intense and often left me at the edge of my seat." Read more

3 customers mention "Character development"3 positive0 negative

Customers find the character development in the book enjoyable.

"I felt that this story was very well written. I really enjoyed the character development and all of the plot twists...." Read more

"While the characters are precious and fun, it was the snippets of the blog that struck me most...." Read more

"...The characters appeared real and relatable to me. I wasn't completely in El's shoes 30 years ago, but not far from it." Read more

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Ginger
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful coming of age story.
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2020
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A wonderful coming of age story.

El is desperately trying to earn her mother's approval. Not going to happen, Mama is a racist, homophobic alcoholic who professes to a good Christian leader.
El's father is never really part of the narrative- hes too busy pursuing political dreams. And he never checks in to see how much damage is done to his daughters.

Riley is the object of El's admiration, affection and inspiration.

Riley is an independent, confident out lesbian who finally notices El. Riley is unaware of El's feelings, Riley just know she needs to help El.

The story follows Riley learning to be vulnerable, brave and to believe in herself.

El's journey is a bit more difficult - running away to avoid conversion camp, learning to be strong and understanding herself.

Great story!
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F. Rottmund
5.0 out of 5 stars Not just another fluffy romance
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2020
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This book surprised me. As a reading addict, not many stories do that anymore.
At first it seemed like it was going to be one of those helpless damsels too dumb to save herself stories. So glad I kept reading anyway. How nice it was to be wrong.
This book is fabulous! The insights the author sprinkles in so liberally kept me hooked. I will never be offended by someone calling me a "liberal snowflake" again!
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Kim H.
4.0 out of 5 stars Truth For Some
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2021
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It took a few chapters for me to get into this book. At times there was filler I felt wasn’t really necessary. But as I continued to read, the book got better. The story focused primarily on three characters, the daughter El, her controlling, verbally abusive mother, and the woman who El loved from afar. El’s mother controlled her completely by telling her what to wear, eat and how to act her entire life. El’s mother went as far as hiring a popular high school guy to take her out and try to have sex with her. Although El has an older sister, they were never very close and had her own challenges with their mother. As El got closer to turning 18, she decided to take control of her life and prepared to run away. The story evolves between more challenges El encounters and the woman she loves, but had to leave behind and her mother’s continued, controlling involvement. I’ve heard of similar stories of the things in this story really happening to people. In some cases, these people had no way out. I rated this four stars because I felt there are a few loose ends that could have been elaborated versus some of the filler.
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Christal
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It!
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2020
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I felt that this story was very well written. I really enjoyed the character development and all of the plot twists. I appreciate it that you could feel the passion the characters had for each other. I honestly might re-read this again down the line just for fun. I couldn’t put it down and when I had to put it down, I couldn’t wait to pick it back up.
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Taguiera Irrenee
5.0 out of 5 stars Stronger than you are
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2020
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All my childhood, I lived with someone a lot like L's Mom and this book helped me face some of that. While there were some good times, I still spent my time up to moving out in daily terror as I waited for my parent to come home. I really enjoyed this book on many levels, especially as someone who has felt "invisible" and sometimes truly wanted to be invisible.
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WILLIAM G KLETT
5.0 out of 5 stars What a wonderful book
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2020
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While the characters are precious and fun, it was the snippets of the blog that struck me most. Especially the exposition 'What is a Girl' That perfect expressed the frustration and hopelessness of being squeezed into a mold not your own.

This author is being added to my follows. Thank you!
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Tessa
5.0 out of 5 stars Ferocious and frighteningly realistic at times
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2020
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Wow. I really enjoyed this read. It's weird to say that because the truth behind the narrative as it relates to be real life makes me so angry. That's also why it's so good. The Snow White storyline was fun to focus on when the rest was feeling a bit too realistic.
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DR
4.0 out of 5 stars El and Riley's journey to each other
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2020
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This was an overwhelming emotional heart wrenching story! El's upbringing, as told through her point of view, was harrowing at best and so destructive. Mamma Glasse was a real piece of work. The author wrote a character I could hate from the first sentence out of the character's mouth. Amazing. Reading Riley's personal growth as she read El's posts filled out the characters and helped the story along. It was so large an adventure and El coming into her own strength was daunting at times but Kristina Meister wrote a good story.
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Philip Rowberry
5.0 out of 5 stars My first foray into lesbian literature
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2023
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Interesting story line. Great characters. Lovely story filled with excitement, tension and explanations. I will definitely be looking for more by Kristina Meister.
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Carol
4.0 out of 5 stars Upending the glass prison
Reviewed in Australia on November 4, 2020
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What starts out as a coming out story turns and examines the pain of being imprisoned within a scary upstanding Christian home. It is the story of one girl and her lover as they try to escape a mother’s cruelty and find a new life,a pathway to a better future. Whilst the story sometimes stretches credibility, the wisdom shared within it does not
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Woo
5.0 out of 5 stars Love Under Glasse by Kristina Meister
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2020
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Brilliant, I loved the whole book. Witty, clever, angsty, and tender... with a large dollop of religious and emotional abuse that is very much food for thought... I loved the good Samaritan’s and that good triumphed over pure evil! Now to read more by this talented author.
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Maryhenllys
4.0 out of 5 stars Escape is possible!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2020
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Great book - The story is of two women who face adversity in different ways & find different ways to challenge it. El the rich controlled utterly by her mother, with back from her tv evangelical father, through which the riches have arrived.

Though watching Riley at the ice cream parlour she comes to adore her but has trouble admiring it to the confident lesbian. El has a boyfriend paid by her mother. But she calls time & Jay stakes out a school show down because no one finishes with him. Riley steps in to stop the bullying & shame & let all the young women at school knows what he is like.
At that point El plots her escape & buys a train ticket to California. Her only friend keeps in touch & then has to stop when El realises the Goons her mother hired are trackingher & have a bonus if they find her. Through it all Riley tracks down the evidence of abuse through out her life. Els mother having committed her to a mental Heath facility.

Riley’s puts the evidence to ruin Els parent confronts her mother & springs El & they build a life together that they want. Hell of a story lots of places to end but they get each other
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2020
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This book was intense... It makes you think about all those people who don't have a Riley in their life or someone else to help them out of these situations... Even if it doesn't go as far as the institution for members of the LGBT community, just these "pray the gay away" camps are terrible... And I'm sorry to anyone who has to go through it
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