I had so much trouble rating this one! It's a 4 star idea, but it didn't work for me. 2.5 stars 
 As I happened to finish a few books this week (which felt awesome!), it's about time I reviewed at least one of them. So here we go: 
 I really, really, wanted to love The Glass Casket by McCormick Templeman. It's all the Gothic high melodrama and fairytale eeriness that I love. And yet, it was too filmy and insubstantial to leave much of an impression. 
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 In The Glass Casket, Rowan Rose keeps busy by translating ancient texts along with her scholarly father. They live in Nag's End (which is a village on the edge of nowhere-exactly what it sounds like), surrounded by "superstitious" villagers with layered traditions. Though her mother died when she was young, Rowan has a good relationship with her father and a strong friendship with fellow villager, Tom. However, everything changes when the kings' men come to town and are horribly killed, and Rowan's mysterious cousin, Fiona shows up in their wake. The Elders warn of hungry wolves, but Rowan begins to suspect that it is something, much, much darker, and not easily explained away by logic and science. 
 So, it's basically the child of The Village, The Brothers Grimm, and Hot Topic 
 You can find the breakdown of what I liked and didn't like on my blog: http://www.rlhendrian.blogspot.com