This was a fast paced story of a lawyer tasked at determining which parent would get custody of Rose in her parents’ heated divorce. The lawyer, Stella, experienced childhood trauma that made Rose’s fragile situation familiar and relatable.

Throughout the story, it was hard to determine who was good, who was as bad, and who was a MURDERER. For fans of riveting thrillers with a cast of unreliable characters, I recommend this novel.

Many thanks to NetGalley for an advanced copy of this ebook!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this arc. House of Glass-during her parents difficult pending divorce , young Rose’s nanny falls to her death. Was it an accident or was she pushed? Rose starts collecting sharp objects & refuses to speak. Special interest attorney, Stella Hudson, is appointed to find out who is the victim & who is the murderer.
So many lies and so many secrets in this exciting thriller!! 5 stars!!

First, I want to say I am a big Sarah Pekkanen fan, so when I had the chance to read this book, let me tell you, I was so happy!

Here, we have the golden family with the perfect life, but look inside closely, and you will find the perfect house of lies.

The House of Glass started out as a great whodunit until a second storyline was introduced. Unfortunately, that's when I kind of lost interest, and the story started to drag on for me. I felt like the characters fell a little flat.

This was definitely not one of my favorites by Sarah Pekkanen, but I will definitely keep reading her books!

*Many thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for my ARC.

Flew through this one!

I loved this creepy mystery of a Nanny who was murdered and everyone is a subject. Worth reading.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity top read and honest review this book.

Serviceable, quick-paced thriller with a possible EVIL Child ™ at the center. The narrator is a bit of a dud; I did not get much feeling for her character and felt little affection or sympathy for her. Lot's of distractions that aren't exactly twists, but enough to keep you guessing.

3.5 stars! This was a compelling read where I truly wondered how the mystery would get solved and wanted to tear through it to find out. Stella is an attorney ad litem working for her newest child client who recently witnessed an accident resulting in the death of her nanny. Stella, with her own demons, sets out to serve the best interests of her client while also getting caught up figuring out if the nanny’s death was really an accident or not.

House of Glass is a captivating novel by Sarah Pekkanen, and is beautifully written. Stella is a lawyer hired to advocate for nine-year-old Rose, whose parents are fighting each other for custody. Rose’s live-in nanny recently died after falling from her third floor window. As Stella fights to determine the best outcome for Rose, and what happened to the nanny, she also begins to face her own traumatic childhood, including solving her own mother’s long-ago death. Stella’s relationships with Rose and Charles (a judge who is her mentor and father-figure) are both heart-wrenching and heart-warming. I couldn’t put this book down, and I didn’t want it to end! The twists kept coming throughout the book, and they were all resolved in a satisfying manner by the end. This one will stay with me for awhile, and I feel confident that it will easily be one of my favorites for the year.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, St. Martin’s Press, for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

Stella is a Best Interest Advocate that normally works with teens. She takes on a younger client as a favor for a friend. She and this young girl have something in common and she is healing herself by helping Rose. Rose comes from a well to do family and everything looks great to those on the outside. After her nanny falls out of a window and dies, everyone is a suspect in Stella’s eyes.

The House of Glass has short chapters and moves at a quick pace. There were several characters that keep you guessing at what their involvement in the nanny’s death could be.

Although the chapters were short and the pace quick, I felt the story could have been shorter. There was a main side story that did add to the plot and help explain Stella’s childhood, but some others that detracted from it. There was a random love interest thrown in towards the end that was fine, but it just seemed unnecessary to the plot and out of the blue. The plot was a little predictable for me.

Overall the read was enjoyable, but it isn’t a thriller that will stay on my mind for long. Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. Stella Hudson is a lawyer who is called to look into the case of nine year old Rose Barclay. The parents are divorcing due to the dad’s affair with the nanny who winds up dead from a fall from an attic window. Some odd things happened to the Nanny before she died, they then start happening to Stella. This is a fast paced thriller up until the end.

What a great read! It was filled with many twist and turns that I didn’t see coming. It definitely had a cool creepy vibe, which kept me flipping those pages. The writing was great, and the characters were likable and well developed. I would recommend.

I LOVE thrillers that have you questioning everyone and everything that's happening. House of Glass is a fast paced thriller that has you wondering if anything is true or if everyone is lying.

I loved everything about this, the characters, the writing style, mystery, eerie setting. The twists and turns will give you whiplash, but you can't stop reading. I read this in under 24 hours because I needed to know what the truth was.

Creepy kid stories freak me out so much and this one had me sleeping with the lights on!

If you've been in a book slump or want a bingeable thriller book.... look no futher.

Sarah Pekkanen does a good job of creating an eerie setting and an unsettling family dynamic in her latest novel, HOUSE OF GLASS. No one is who they seem and everyone raised my suspicion in this mystery/thriller, which reminded me a little of the 1990s movie “The Good Son” with Macaulay Culkin.

Nine year-old Rose Barclay suffers from traumatic muteness after witnessing - or causing? - her nanny’s untimely death. Stella, a best interest attorney, has been tasked with investigating Rose’s life in order to make a recommendation about who should have custody of Rose after her parents’ contentious divorce. Stella knows a thing or two about being unable to talk, because she suffered the same affliction when she was young after her own mother’s tragic death.

HOUSE OF GLASS definitely held my interest. However, there is a lot of backstory about Stella (her childhood and her failed marriage) and while it did give the character depth, it also took my focus away from the book’s central mystery. I was hoping Stella’s troubled past would tie in to what was happening a bit more, but that didn’t happen. Maybe she’ll be a recurring character?

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for an early digital copy of HOUSE OF GLASS in exchange for my honest feedback.

Twisty!! Thought I had this one figured out, but it surprised me. I also like how the character’s stories kept bringing up repeated themes. The Charles side story wasn’t my favorite - I wish there was more focus on Rose.

I really really liked this book! I haven’t had many 5 star reads so far in 2024, but luckily this was definitely one of them! I was hooked from the beginning and breezed my way through the entire book. I really enjoyed the two different storylines and how they were weaved together. Definitely add this to your TBR list. 5 ⭐️s!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC of this novel.

This was the slowest burning and most dragged out thriller I have ever read. The first half was better, but it felt like the author needed to fill a word count at the end. I was definitely intrigued by who killed Tina, but I skimmed a ton at the end to comb through the unnecessary parts.

📚 PRE-PUBLICATION BOOK REVIEW 📚

House of Glass
By Sarah Pekkanen
Publication Date: August 6, 2024
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

📚MY RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📚MY REVIEW:

I've been wanting to read this book for a while, so when I got approved on NetGalley for the e-ARC, I didn't waste any time getting into this one. And the book didn't waste any time captivating my attention, either!

This book pulled me into its story quickly and never veered off-track for me. The short chapters and fast pace of this book made it a quick and bingeable read, one I read in an afternoon. This was one of those books where you felt like maybe you knew what was coming, and aren't you so smart for figuring it out, and then discovered you couldn't have been more wrong. Lol. And the twists in some of the subplots going on were unexpected too, which added even more layers of surprise to this story.

As someone who worked in the family court system for much of my career, I was immediately fascinated with the plotline of the book. The main character is Stella, a court-appointed Guardian ad Litem attorney, tasked with assessing the Barclay family during their contentious divorce and providing the court with a determination about the best custody arrangements for nine-year-old Rose. There was so much intrigue and so much creepy mystery to the story, it was really a fun book to try and predict (spoiler alert: I didn't).

I highly recommend this book, especially if you like twisted family dynamics, creepy kids, old creepy houses, unreliable characters, and domestic thrillers. This was my first read from Pekkanen, and it absolutely will not be my last! I truly enjoyed this five-star read -- A big thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for gifting me this advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

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I tore through this book so quickly! It is an awesome twisty thriller and I’m loving the main character and hope we see more of her. Sarah Pekkanen shines on her own. Loving her solo books even more than the books she wrote as a duo . I highly recommend you check this out unique thriller out .

I received an ARC of this novel from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

A lawyer who acts as a guardian ad litem for young clients is assigned to a child with traumatic mutism. The correlations between the lawyer's life and those of her young client's are triggering.

The outcome of the investigation was surprising. I loved the ending.

Stella is a guardian ad litem attorney responsible for a mute 9year olds custody recommendations. Rose, recently mute due to the trauma at her nannies murder. Or was it murder or an accident. And there are loads of suspect parents live at home . The father had an affair with the nanny causing a pregnancy . Was it the mom or dad There are other suspects. They live with an in law who was with Rod at the time of the murder. There are folks that came for lessons piano and Chinese. Stella must determine who is the best parent for Stella all while dealing with her own demand from both of her parents tragic deaths. Will Stella figure it out? Is there anything else to figure out? It is all so juicy and worth the wait!

At the beginning of this book, we think we’re getting a Bad Seed murder mystery, set in a suburban McMansion with a dysfunctional family whose nanny has died by either falling or being pushed out an attic window. But then the author dives into the tragic past of the attorney, Stella, who is assigned to a custody decision of who the child, Rose, should live with. Stella has demons of her own, as child she witnessed her mother’s death, so she believes she recognizes similar demons in Rose. Red herrings are thrown around unevenly to make us believe that Rose is a psychopath. How could a 9-year-old child make her way to Stella’s house, break in and turn off her stereo or rearrange her belongings? Plot twists and more red herrings are meant to confuse the reader off the scent but I figured out the real culprit, who seemed guilty, in some form or another, from the start.

A secondary plot deals with Stella’s mentor, Charles, which takes us away from the present action as mostly filler.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review.