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Girl of Glass #4
Son of Sun
The ruins of the city hide secrets Nola never imagined and danger she can’t escape.
The domes seek to destroy anyone who might disturb their perfect sanctuary. They’ll watch the world crumble from behind their glass walls. But the world isn’t ready to die.
With the strength of Nightland and the ferocity of those left to suffer, the final battle begins.
Survival requires sacrifice, and the time has come for Nola to pay the cost.
The domes seek to destroy anyone who might disturb their perfect sanctuary. They’ll watch the world crumble from behind their glass walls. But the world isn’t ready to die.
With the strength of Nightland and the ferocity of those left to suffer, the final battle begins.
Survival requires sacrifice, and the time has come for Nola to pay the cost.
- GenresDystopia
230 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 7, 2019
60 people are currently reading
204 people want to read
About the author
Megan O'Russell
52 books495 followersFrom the epic fantasy world of Ilbrea to the vampire and werewolf-plagued dystopia of the domes, author Megan O'Russell offers readers thirty-two books across nine series.
With a passion for building immersive worlds, uncovering each character’s unique voice, and discovering innovative ways to bring stories to audiences, Megan has created and presented workshops across the country helping fellow authors along their journey, including facing the Indie Publishing process with clear eyes and a workable plan.
Megan's newest novel, Sketchbook of a Wayward Seer, is presented in partnership with the podcast Page by Page: Writing the Book in Real Time, where you can listen to a new, full chapter of the series every week. Other titles include Ember and Stone, Girl of Glass, The Cursebound Thief, and How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin' Days.
With a passion for building immersive worlds, uncovering each character’s unique voice, and discovering innovative ways to bring stories to audiences, Megan has created and presented workshops across the country helping fellow authors along their journey, including facing the Indie Publishing process with clear eyes and a workable plan.
Megan's newest novel, Sketchbook of a Wayward Seer, is presented in partnership with the podcast Page by Page: Writing the Book in Real Time, where you can listen to a new, full chapter of the series every week. Other titles include Ember and Stone, Girl of Glass, The Cursebound Thief, and How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin' Days.
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February 28, 2020
The clock is ticking. The domes are no longer safe, as well as the city outside of the domes. Females within what is left of the crumbling world Nola was raised in are now being bred to raise population. Survivors of the attacks are being tracked as a corrupt government searches for Nightland and the traitors. Nola has opened her heart to love, at last, but can it stay that way when the new people they find, the Teachers and the Northerners, threaten them with bows and arrows? Or will it crumble away like trees under the touch of an illegal substance that the domes have resorted to?
The stakes are higher than ever, and so will your interest in the series as more secrets are revealed and people are hurt. Nowhere is safe, and Meghan O’Russell makes sure you know that.
The stakes are higher than ever, and so will your interest in the series as more secrets are revealed and people are hurt. Nowhere is safe, and Meghan O’Russell makes sure you know that.
October 11, 2020
Is it wrong to say I’m glad I’m done with this series? Obviously, based on the Goodreads reviews, there were a lot of people who liked this series. I felt while it was interesting, the types of characters (vampires, werewolves, humans, zombies, “superheroes”) there were too many questionable aspects/phrases/mistakes/annoyances that grated on my nerves, preventing me from really enjoying the books.
Given I’ve commented a lot about Nola and her lack of maturity or stilted growth, if you will, and her relationship with “the boys,” Jeremy and Kieran, what has changed if anything at this point?
Well, Nola is still all over Jeremy, gripping him so tightly so they are separated, still getting warm tingly feelings whenever she sees or touches him, and so appreciative when Jeremy tells her “I’ll keep you safe.” Her acting surprised when he wants to be with her forever, even though he’s said it multiple times throughout the series… [insert eye roll here] So, unfortunately, nothing has changed with Nola. She stayed pretty much stagnant after book 1. And, of course, Jeremy hasn’t changed since book 1 either. “I love you. I have to find a way to keep all of this awfulness from hurting you.” Their relationship is so over the top. Yes, they’re young and in love, but come on! It’s like both of them are so insecure, especially Jeremy, with constantly needing to remind and reassure Nola he loves her and vice versa. It’s too much!
I still find it funny that Nola just all of a sudden decided she wanted to help people as though she had no clue there were those struggling to survive on a daily basis. And besides topics relating to gardening, Nola doesn’t come across as being that smart; for example, when they encounter Capt. Stokes in the woods, he’s talking about the domes females being forced to mate with strangers. Nola’s response?
“How old is she?” There was nothing prior to that comment that had me believe there was a specific female Stokes was talking or worried about; yet, Nola’s able to read between the lines.
By this point I was hoping for a better understanding as to why the domes suddenly went crazy, releasing/kicking out domers, blowing the city to hell, and killing all outsiders they encounter.
Questions/Comments:
Nola and Jeremy are in the old Nightland looking for Gentry. Jeremy has just encountered the recording of voices in a room where dead people are propped up as though still alive. He’s currently stuck inside. Nola’s worried and says, “Make the other people help you look for a way out.” She says that AFTER Jeremy tells her the voices were from a recording.
Their reasoning as to why the room was booby-trapped was questionable. They thought whoever (the guards) were trying to round up vampires. So once the vampire(s) were trapped in the room, a gas was released. What would the gas have done to the vampires?
In book 3, Nola asks Jeremy if they still have to sleep. He tells her that he only needs sleep every three days for about six hours. Yet the day after sleeping together, after coming back from the old Nightland, he tells Nola that they need rest. He never asks her if she’s even tired. It’s like he’s acting as though they’re normal humans still. On a side note, they just got back and go to sleep. No cleaning up or anything.
Why does Nola tell T and Beauford that the city is completely gone? There are still buildings! The old Nightland is still there.
There have been multiple times mentioned throughout the series when the reader is told there are about one thousand people making up Nightland, by Emanuel, Jeremy, Nola, etc. Yet in book 4, Nola says, “I thought Nightland was bigger than that” as though this number is something new.
“The only direction the Teachers could have come from is south.” How in the world would Jeremy know that given he’d never heard of the Teachers prior to meeting them in one of the city houses?
Nola and Jeremy are getting ready to head North. She gets her clothing and it says most had already been mended from the “few weeks she’d spent living outside the glass.” When was this? She went from the dome directly to Nightland, maybe spending one evening outside. Otherwise, whenever she’s gone out, she’s only been “living outside” a couple of nights, if that.
Nola wonders what they’ll do when they run out of the factory-made clothes. Well… what has everyone else been doing? The outsiders? The vampires and everyone that’s in Nightland?
If it’s cold outside—low temperature—and Nola hadn’t felt cold from the cold lake water—low temperature—in the mountain, why would she and Jeremy hope the northerners had fires going? Why would cold water not affect her but cold wind does? That makes no sense.
The northerners ask how to get into Nightland. One can assume they know where it’s located; otherwise, why would the main man ask how to get in and not where it’s located? So why does Nola tell them?
Why is that Nola has been out in the sun multiple times throughout the series, even after the reader is told the rays can be extremely harmful, yet it’s not until book 4 when they’re heading to the domes that “Even as the sun sank over the horizon, its rays burned Nola’s neck”?
Given I’ve commented a lot about Nola and her lack of maturity or stilted growth, if you will, and her relationship with “the boys,” Jeremy and Kieran, what has changed if anything at this point?
Well, Nola is still all over Jeremy, gripping him so tightly so they are separated, still getting warm tingly feelings whenever she sees or touches him, and so appreciative when Jeremy tells her “I’ll keep you safe.” Her acting surprised when he wants to be with her forever, even though he’s said it multiple times throughout the series… [insert eye roll here] So, unfortunately, nothing has changed with Nola. She stayed pretty much stagnant after book 1. And, of course, Jeremy hasn’t changed since book 1 either. “I love you. I have to find a way to keep all of this awfulness from hurting you.” Their relationship is so over the top. Yes, they’re young and in love, but come on! It’s like both of them are so insecure, especially Jeremy, with constantly needing to remind and reassure Nola he loves her and vice versa. It’s too much!
I still find it funny that Nola just all of a sudden decided she wanted to help people as though she had no clue there were those struggling to survive on a daily basis. And besides topics relating to gardening, Nola doesn’t come across as being that smart; for example, when they encounter Capt. Stokes in the woods, he’s talking about the domes females being forced to mate with strangers. Nola’s response?
“How old is she?” There was nothing prior to that comment that had me believe there was a specific female Stokes was talking or worried about; yet, Nola’s able to read between the lines.
By this point I was hoping for a better understanding as to why the domes suddenly went crazy, releasing/kicking out domers, blowing the city to hell, and killing all outsiders they encounter.
Questions/Comments:
Nola and Jeremy are in the old Nightland looking for Gentry. Jeremy has just encountered the recording of voices in a room where dead people are propped up as though still alive. He’s currently stuck inside. Nola’s worried and says, “Make the other people help you look for a way out.” She says that AFTER Jeremy tells her the voices were from a recording.
Their reasoning as to why the room was booby-trapped was questionable. They thought whoever (the guards) were trying to round up vampires. So once the vampire(s) were trapped in the room, a gas was released. What would the gas have done to the vampires?
In book 3, Nola asks Jeremy if they still have to sleep. He tells her that he only needs sleep every three days for about six hours. Yet the day after sleeping together, after coming back from the old Nightland, he tells Nola that they need rest. He never asks her if she’s even tired. It’s like he’s acting as though they’re normal humans still. On a side note, they just got back and go to sleep. No cleaning up or anything.
Why does Nola tell T and Beauford that the city is completely gone? There are still buildings! The old Nightland is still there.
There have been multiple times mentioned throughout the series when the reader is told there are about one thousand people making up Nightland, by Emanuel, Jeremy, Nola, etc. Yet in book 4, Nola says, “I thought Nightland was bigger than that” as though this number is something new.
“The only direction the Teachers could have come from is south.” How in the world would Jeremy know that given he’d never heard of the Teachers prior to meeting them in one of the city houses?
Nola and Jeremy are getting ready to head North. She gets her clothing and it says most had already been mended from the “few weeks she’d spent living outside the glass.” When was this? She went from the dome directly to Nightland, maybe spending one evening outside. Otherwise, whenever she’s gone out, she’s only been “living outside” a couple of nights, if that.
Nola wonders what they’ll do when they run out of the factory-made clothes. Well… what has everyone else been doing? The outsiders? The vampires and everyone that’s in Nightland?
If it’s cold outside—low temperature—and Nola hadn’t felt cold from the cold lake water—low temperature—in the mountain, why would she and Jeremy hope the northerners had fires going? Why would cold water not affect her but cold wind does? That makes no sense.
The northerners ask how to get into Nightland. One can assume they know where it’s located; otherwise, why would the main man ask how to get in and not where it’s located? So why does Nola tell them?
Why is that Nola has been out in the sun multiple times throughout the series, even after the reader is told the rays can be extremely harmful, yet it’s not until book 4 when they’re heading to the domes that “Even as the sun sank over the horizon, its rays burned Nola’s neck”?
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May 11, 2019
In this last book of the series,
matters come to a final, violent
conclusion.
Who wins ? Who loses ?
Who survives ? Who doesn't ?
Read and enjoy !!
Phyllis S.
matters come to a final, violent
conclusion.
Who wins ? Who loses ?
Who survives ? Who doesn't ?
Read and enjoy !!
Phyllis S.
February 15, 2022
Sadly this is the last book in the series. It was truly excellent however. I'd love to see one more volume with a time jump to show how everyone is caring.
May 13, 2019
My favorite line of all of these books was “Welcome to the end of the world” but I think context made it a more powerful statement that it is sounding here. Lol I did enjoy the story and I love how each book picks up right where the last one left off without a lot of explaining what I just read in the last book like a lot of books in a series do. Good quick series to read in my down time.
August 17, 2019
Salad.
May 5, 2021
This is the conclusion of the Girl of Glass series and it moves towards the ultimate showdown with the outsiders pitted against the domers and the new devastating weapons they have unleashed on the world outside of their domes burning what was left of the city to the ground and unleashing another weapon that destroys everything in a radius around where it lands. With these weapons the people left outside the domes have no choice but to attack the domes and stop the slaughter that is decimating their numbers and the vegetation surrounding them.
I recommend this book and this series to young adult and adult readers who want to read a story that will tear at your heart strings and make you shudder at the inhuman treatment those in power hold over the unfortunates who they have cast out after they have constructed the domes to provide safety and comfort to those who live within but are not deemed fit to live within the dome themselves. Drugs have changed most of the survivors into vampires or werewolves that prey on those who are still “human” in the city.
This is a series that paints a very realistic picture of the struggle to survive in a world that has been poisoned by man and the hope that perhaps in our own world we will see what we are doing and stop the destruction of our planet before it’s too late!
Megan is to commended for such a series that I wish people everywhere would read and see the real danger behind a series that will keep you reading every page faster and faster as you experience adventurers that will keep you glued to the pages!
When you finish the series it ought to give you pause but you also will know that the time you spent reading it was well worth it!
I urge you all to get this series and begin it today!!
I recommend this book and this series to young adult and adult readers who want to read a story that will tear at your heart strings and make you shudder at the inhuman treatment those in power hold over the unfortunates who they have cast out after they have constructed the domes to provide safety and comfort to those who live within but are not deemed fit to live within the dome themselves. Drugs have changed most of the survivors into vampires or werewolves that prey on those who are still “human” in the city.
This is a series that paints a very realistic picture of the struggle to survive in a world that has been poisoned by man and the hope that perhaps in our own world we will see what we are doing and stop the destruction of our planet before it’s too late!
Megan is to commended for such a series that I wish people everywhere would read and see the real danger behind a series that will keep you reading every page faster and faster as you experience adventurers that will keep you glued to the pages!
When you finish the series it ought to give you pause but you also will know that the time you spent reading it was well worth it!
I urge you all to get this series and begin it today!!
June 10, 2021
This book was OK. In honesty, it had the makings for a 5 star book, but never got there. This was a dystopian mixed with a paranormal fantasy. Those alone should give it a 3 star for me, but it didn’t really go anywhere from there. It was all an interesting concept, but never truly felt fleshed out. There was a lot of telling VS showing. Perhaps that is partially attributed to the length of this book, as it is quite short for a novel. I really could have done without the poorly constructed love triangle, the only thing it serves was to remind us how fickle young love often is. Nola’s ability to change her mind almost gave me whiplash at points. Will I read the next book? Perhaps, if I’m bored and it’s also available at the library on audio.
March 10, 2022
This series is a dystopian tale replete with dome dwellers, whose mission is to preserve the human race, not to help the sick and starving people who live outside the domes. As well there are vampires, werewolves, zombies and woodlanders.
My favourite characters were Nola who has a strong moral compass and Raina, a vampire, who has a good sense of humour. My least favourite character is Nola’s mother and if you read the last instalment it should be fairly obvious why I have a particular distain for her.
This series would definitely appeal to anyone who enjoys the paranormal as well as to young adults.
My favourite characters were Nola who has a strong moral compass and Raina, a vampire, who has a good sense of humour. My least favourite character is Nola’s mother and if you read the last instalment it should be fairly obvious why I have a particular distain for her.
This series would definitely appeal to anyone who enjoys the paranormal as well as to young adults.
May 7, 2021
I’m glad I read this series. It was entertaining. The books ended abruptly but at least the next book didn’t spend a whole chapter explaining the previous book.
A series of quick good reads. Nola was interesting, but the romance was a bit intense to be unbelievable. The world was interesting and it was nice to see a dystopian YA story starting from the position of the haves and not the have-nots. The vampires weren’t lame and it was nice to see how Nola tries to process some heavy questions.
A series of quick good reads. Nola was interesting, but the romance was a bit intense to be unbelievable. The world was interesting and it was nice to see a dystopian YA story starting from the position of the haves and not the have-nots. The vampires weren’t lame and it was nice to see how Nola tries to process some heavy questions.
January 26, 2023
Book 4 in Girl of Glass series
Plans to end reign of terror. Forming and trusting new allies. Battling for a better future with the least amount of casualties. Together, whatever happens.
Son of Sun is an action-packed dystopian fantasy that concludes the Girl of Glass series. The series wraps up in the best way possible. Detailed world building and strong character development.
"...but better to die than live as the minion of a monster."
"We want peace, but we are ready for war."
Plans to end reign of terror. Forming and trusting new allies. Battling for a better future with the least amount of casualties. Together, whatever happens.
Son of Sun is an action-packed dystopian fantasy that concludes the Girl of Glass series. The series wraps up in the best way possible. Detailed world building and strong character development.
"...but better to die than live as the minion of a monster."
"We want peace, but we are ready for war."
August 6, 2022
I hung onto the series for so long because I was hoping for a specific ending. I love the concept of Vampirism being a drug rather than disease or genetics. I feel like more could've been done with it, but it was a good and enjoyable read. I'm a little bitter I didn't get the romance sub-plot ending I wanted. Definitely more of a YA than NA.
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December 13, 2019This was a fantastic finale to the series, but I’m so sad it’s over. I’m going to miss the characters so much, and I would have been happy with more books, but I’m glad it was wrapped up in this one.
April 19, 2020
In this book, the group set out to destroy Salinger and save their own haven in the mountains. But when the final fight happens not everyone will make it out alive. Where on earth does this author get her imagination from? Such detail of just what the end of the world as we know it could become.
March 26, 2021
Ohh this was such a intense read for me!! At times it was a nail biter to see what will happen when war breaks out. Which side will win and who will survive! The grand finale was great and I loved the epilogue. The narrator was great too. If you enjoy YA dystopian series with paranormal, I highly recommend this series.
April 1, 2024
Overall this was a great series. It wrapped up nicely in this last book and the ending isn’t the typical blanket ending where everyone they were fighting dies. “We want peace, but we are ready for war.”
May 23, 2019
This is a fantastic book. I definitely recommend reading it. Nola is true to her self and her ideals. She is a true hero.
July 4, 2020
Good ending. Like a fast paced series. At times the main female character annoyed me but she came good in the end.
January 14, 2021
Good closure for the series. Less swearing than the 3rd book. Be interesting to see if they all managed to make things work. The epilogue was a bit vague.
December 5, 2022
I am not usually a dystopian reader, but I love this book! Especially for a YA read! I flew through the whole series in a few days!
September 27, 2024
I felt that something was missing, it didn’t draw me in like the first three books.
May 8, 2022
Oh no, it's finished!
A wonderful end to a great series. The only wrong thing with this book is that it was the last - I would have been happy for this series to be one of those 10-book ones. Alas, it isn't, so the conclusion has just been read by me. Not what I expected, I am glad to report!
This author has the ability to keep things fresh even on the fourth book of a series. I am so pleased I read this series, wish it had been longer, and am sad to leave this world.
A wonderful end to a great series. The only wrong thing with this book is that it was the last - I would have been happy for this series to be one of those 10-book ones. Alas, it isn't, so the conclusion has just been read by me. Not what I expected, I am glad to report!
This author has the ability to keep things fresh even on the fourth book of a series. I am so pleased I read this series, wish it had been longer, and am sad to leave this world.
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