The Glass Hotel’s focus is of two seemingly unrelated events – the collapse of an international Ponzi scheme and the disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
The Glass Hotel has a ghostly, smoke and mirrors feel to its narrative. The story is a jigsaw puzzle piecing together the connections between the substantial array of characters. The ghosts of The Glass Hotel appear not just as physical manifestations of guilty consciences but as a reminder of their past.
I really enjoyed The Glass Hotel. The novel places emphasis on the impact of decisions, major and minor, and how they can lead to life and death consequences. The first half was a slow build but by the end of the book all the lose threads had been woven together beautifully.
This book is about more than a Ponzi scheme, it’s about choices, connections, mistakes but most of all that life is unpredictable and precarious
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: eBook
ASIN: B07H4ZMG2P
What Caz Read 