The Girl with Glass Feet

I was really disappointed with this book.  My husband teaches LDS seminary and one of his students had this book at the seminary building one day during lunch.  So I just assumed a good little LDS young woman would be reading a good clean book and I went home and put it on hold at the library!  I am really surprised that she was reading this book.  It is an adult book.  I would not let my children read it...honestly I'm disappointed in myself that I finished reading it. I kept thinking it would get better though. It is full of bad language, including multiple, multiple uses of the F word (at least it seemed that way to me!  I try to avoid it though).  Sexual innuendo as well as just sex talked about casually. Broken families and marriages and it was just kind of awful. It reminded me a lot of Neil Gaiman books: dark, weird fantasy.
So there are mythical winged creatures who live in St. Hauda's Land and upon visiting Ida encounters one and is now slowing turning to glass.  The search for the cure is on...but unfortunately is not found.  She meets Midas and the two unlikely matched somehow fall in love...probably because time is so short between them. It really bothers me that Midas hates his dad so much, he is preoccupied with his hatred of his dad.  And in the end he doesn't resolve that, he just throws it away and lets it go.  He never finds out the reason his dad acted the way he did was because his heart was turned to glass. His mother who had an affair I guess? with a strange man doesn't get back together with that man.  Another man who was obsessed with Ida's mother ends up being miserable and it just...nothing happy happens in this book.  Except maybe Midas becomes more capable of showing love?  I did not like this book. I don't recommend it. In case you are considering this read...I say skip it!  Unless you don't mind the f word and dark books. I didn't like how this book made me feel which should have been my first clue that I shouldn't read it. Can I tell you enough that I don't like this book? Just...don't read it.