Half-way through this book, I was feeling completely underwhelmed. I think this book had to have made the biggest, most satisfying comeback in book history. I read the second half almost in one sitting, and when I had to stop reading to go to class, I couldn't stop thinking about when I could race home to finish it. Most people that have read and enjoyed Vampire Academy and Bloodlines will tell you that the series only gets better after the first book--and I completely agree. I think that aspect of Mead's writing style is reflected in this book as well. The Glittering Court is technically a "series", but in reality, it's the same story being told three times from different perspectives, so the book actually reads as a stand alone. I think that's why I found the first half so boring. A lot needed to be set up so that the second half could wrap itself up, and once the foundations were laid and the character relationships were built, the book was AMAZING. However, a lot of aspects about the first half did annoy me. Adelaide and Tamsin could both be very pretentious and annoying at times, and a lot of "issues" they faced--like what colors they were dressed in or the decorations for events-- I didn't really care about. But by the second half of the book, Adelaide felt like a completely different character, and I loved her, so it ended up being great character development on Mead's part. I am excited to read the other two books and learn more about the other characters, but I really, really wish this series would have just followed Adelaide and Cedric's story because I ended up loving them so much by the end of the story and I feel like if their story continued I probably would've ended up loving it as much as bloodlines.