REVIEW: Glitterland by Alexis Hall (Spires Universe #1)

- January 17, 2023

GLITTERLAND

Spires Universe - Book One

by Alexis Hall

Re-Release Date: January 17, 2023

Review

This book is a lot. In the best way.

Alexis has a really unique descriptive writing style that is addictive. But he also writes such flawed characters using humour and quirky situations that they find themselves in.

In Glitterland, Ash is almost consumed by his mental health. Until he meets Darian a charmingly ridiculous man that wants Ash for exactly who he is. Not who he was, who he could be. In turn, he just wants to be loved for who he is.

It’s a romance of two men, but it’s also a romance with one's own mental health. Learning to love yourself as is, learning to accept yourself. Freeing yourself to live happier.

“So, lemme get this right. We're gonna make a go of it. You and me? Togevver? Even though I'm orange and you're mental?”

The depiction of mental health is at times uncomfortable. It’s very real, but also beautiful.

“I'd wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to hospitals, to depression, to wanting to die. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. This is not who I am.

Except, of course, it was. It was all there was left to be.”

Hunjed pahcent a gem!

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Synopsis

In the past, the universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand.

In the past, I am brilliant and I am happy and my every tomorrow is madness.

In the past, I am soaring, and falling, and breaking, and lost.

And now, there is only this.

Once the golden boy of the English literary scene, now a clinically depressed writer of pulp crime fiction, Ash Winters has given up on hope, happiness, and―most of all―himself. He lives his life between the cycles of his illness, haunted by the ghosts of other people's expectations.

Then a chance encounter throws him into the path of Essex-born Darian Taylor. Flashy and loud, radiant and full of life, Darian couldn't be more different...and yet he makes Ash laugh, reminding him of what it's like to step beyond the boundaries of his anxiety. But Ash has been living in his own shadow for so long that he can no longer see a way out. Can a man who doesn't trust himself ever trust in happiness? And how can someone who doesn't believe in happiness ever fight for his own?

About Alexis Hall

Alexis Hall does not like writing biographies or talking about himself in the third person. He lives in southeast England with his extensive collection of hats and three angry duckchildren.

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