House of Glass
Sarah Pekkanen
Pub: 8/6/24
4.5☆

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.

I love thrillers that completely throw me for a loop, and House of Glass did that in spades!

Sarah Pekkanen absolutely knocked it out of the park with this one! It was a well written, all consuming, slow-burn read that had me furiously flipping pages, and not wanting to stop the audio because I just had to know the truth. I loved how Pekkanen had me questioning and second guessing every single character (including Rose) to the very end! Such a well developed and utterly suspect cast of characters.

I also really enjoyed the unique perspective of a best-interest attorney and found the topic of traumatic mutism really interesting.

What I loved;
✨ Twisty Thriller
✨ Atmospheric Mystery
✨ Tense & Suspenseful
✨ Past/Present Storylines

Absolutely would recommend. Thank you so much to St Martin’s press for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

This was the first thriller I’ve read from this author and it did not disappoint. From beginning to end I was incredibly enthralled with the storyline and found the whole plot of the book very interesting. Definitely recommend this title, thank you Netgally for this ARC

I requested to read and review this book for free from St. Martin's Publishing Company. This book has many different feels terror, horror, sadness, joy and relief. This book is full of twist and turns that will keep you wanting to read until the very end. Rose is child who is very smart. Is she to smart for her own good or a child that can make adult decisions. Stella is children's lawyer that tries to do right by all of her clients. Has she meet her match in Rose. Will she be able to figure out Rose and what she needs in life. Family can be a big blessing and a curse. Can they be one in the same? What happens when murder or possibly an accident happens. What happens next? Can Stella all the clues and riddles to save her own life and the life of her clients? This book is for a mature audience and can be read anywhere.

I have to say I didn’t guess the ending. It was a kind of eerie tale with fingers being pointed every which way.

This was a psychological thriller. I raced through it and found it enjoyable. It was a pretty standard thriller. Creepy kid, rich family, murder and an investigator with a past.

3.5 stars. House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen is a good thriller- a page turner that's hard to put down until you can put all of the pieces together. There were many different storylines running parallel throughout the book- which were organized fairly nicely. Just when you think you know what's going on, there are twists and turns.

This is the third book I've read by this author. Like the other books, this one does not disappoint. Enough twists to keep your interest as two stories develop. 4 stars for this domestic thriller.

HOUSE OF GLASS by Sarah Pekkanen ✨
ARC/ALC review • pub date 08.06.24

I devoured this book! After the nanny plunges to her death, a lawyer is sent to the home to help figure out what happened, and also who the young girl in the family should go to live with since the parents are getting a divorce.

She immediately notices something eerie about the house: there is no glass inside it whatsoever. She’s on a mission to figure out the truth.

This one was truly a page turner, and the narration was great! Would absolutely recommend for suspense/whodunnit fans!

4⭐️

Thanks so much to @netgalley, @stmartinspress, and @macmillan.audio for my advanced copies!

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A couple getting a divorce, a dead, pregnant nanny, a child who won’t speak because she saw her nanny fall from the window, and a best-interest attorney who has to help the courts decide who gets full custody after the divorce are the characters we meet.

The divorcing couple live in a huge house, and everyone seems to be hiding something about who could have pushed her out the window.

Could it have been the cheating husband, the scorned wife, the grandmother, or even nine-year-old Rose who hides sharp things in her pockets and room?

Something isn’t right in this house or with this murder.

Tension abounds as you try to determine just what is going on.

Fans won’t want to miss this one. 5/5

Thank you to the publisher for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

House of Glass is a mystery, thriller in every sense. It had me hooked right from the very beginning. A nanny is found dead after falling or being pushed from a 3 story window. Now a 9 year old girl has stopped talking. You have no idea who to believe; the mom, dad, grandmother, the boyfriend, or the girlfriend. It’s impossible to guess who did it. Stella, a child advocate, is appointed to determine who the child should live with in the midst of the parents’ divorce after the nanny is found dead. There are many twists and turns which will keep one reading. If you like mysteries this one is a must read.

This might be my favorite listen of June! It kept me on my toes the whole time and was definitely engaging. I listened to it in two days (which is quick for me), and felt satisfied by the ending and how everything wrapped up (which hasn’t happened in QUITE a while for me!)

I totally thought that this story was going to end differently. Sarah Pekkanen did a great job making me think I had it all figured out. Looking forward to reading more of Sarah's work in the future.

Excellent page turner written page by the author of "Gone Tonight." I loved the twists and turns, none of which I saw coming. Highly recommended for lovers of suspense/thrillers. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
Pub Date: Aug 6th, 2024
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While I enjoyed this book, I found that it was a little slow in the beginning. The resolution was worth it, but getting to the last hundred or so pages was a chore. I enjoy Sarah Pekkanen's writing: her characters are always top notch and well developed.

4.5/5

I found this one quite enjoyable! I was confident that I had it all figured out half way through the story. However, I started doubting myself, and although some of my suspicions were right, I did not anticipate the ending.

Eight-year-old Rose Barclay remains silent following the tragic passing of her nanny during her parents' bitter divorce. Attorney Stella Hudson is assigned to determine the best custody arrangement for Rose. Stories don’t add up, Stella is determined to help Rose find her voice and uncover the truth. Delving into the Barclay family's hidden truths, Stella uncovers a collision of past and present with startling outcomes. In this murder mystery, everyone is a potential suspect, including young Rose. Could the one Stella is meant to defend be the very person she needs protection from?

The characters were well-developed, each with their own distinct personalities and motivations. The plot twists were masterfully executed, keeping me on the edge of my seat until the very last page. The author’s ability to weave suspense and emotion into the narrative made for an unforgettable reading experience. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good psychological thriller/murder mystery!

If you enjoyed The Silent Patient, you would definitely appreciate this one!

Creepy house, creepy child, who-done-it vibes. I enjoyed the build up of the story and thought this was really a page turner. I didn’t want to put it down and had to see it to the end. I’m a fan of this author.

House of Glass was overall a great read. I give it a 4.1 rounded to four stars. It was exciting, thrilling at times, well written, and unique. I didn’t know what to believe about the characters for a long time, almost all the way to the end. This was my first Sarah Pekannen novel without Greer Hendricks and I find her to be a solid thriller writer on her own. I only deducted a star because I felt like the ending was just a bit rushed and a lot of things were left to line up in a short amount of time. I might’ve taken a different route myself for the twist, but I still enjoyed the novel and would totally recommend it to my thriller reading followers! Thank you to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review!

First of all Sarah Pekkanen is one of my favorite authors and this book did not disappoint! I was so gripped by the murder mystery and especially the parallels between Rose’s story and Stella’s past. The selective mutism and witness to a murder/ close family death really allowed for an easy parallel that played out gorgeously and horrifically.

Sarah’s writing has always been amazing to me. While I like to think myself clever in that I can usually predict the mysteries of books before they come out with it, this book, as they all do, tricked me again. Sarah has an amazing way of leading you down a path where you think you’ve caught her, only for her to pull the rug from under you right at the end and twist the story. While I had suspected every character in the story, as Stella does as well, it is so clear she masterfully guided us down this path just to pull a 180 at the end.

I couldn’t put this down, even when I knew I had other things to do.

Incredible! Loved it so much!

2.5 stars, rounded down
Sarah Pekkanen writes slow burn psychological thrillers which I usually like. But this one was a big miss for me. I spent way too much time rolling my eyes and utterly disgusted noises.
House of Glass concerns Stella, a young lawyer who acts as a “best interest attorney”. In other words, she works to determine what’s best for a child in a custody case. This time, she’s representing a nine year old precocious child who lost her ability to speak after witnessing the death of her nanny. A death that remains unresolved as it’s unclear if she was murdered or had an accident. Stella is uniquely qualified for this assignment as she also lost her ability to speak for a time after the death of her mother. Although I kept thinking she was exactly the wrong person for the job, as her own experiences would naturally bleed through (especially as the circumstances around her mom’s death remains a mystery). My major problem with this book was that Stella seemed determined to go way above and beyond the constraints of her job. She acted more like a detective than an ad litem attorney. And I am so tired of main characters making idiotic decisions that knowingly put themselves and others in danger.
Pekkanen moves the plot along at a brisk pace which helped somewhat. She does her best to keep the reader off balance as to who was behind the suspicious death by throwing in plenty of red herrings. But I thought it was obvious from early on. And the ending was way too OTT for my taste.
There is also a subplot concerning the death of Stella’s mom. This one was also obvious from early on.
I listened to this and Laura Benanti did a fine job as the narrator other than she made the mid60s grandmother sound like she was in her 80s.
My thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Audio for an advance copy of this book.

This one had me hooked from the very first page! I couldn’t stop listening. We have the mysterious death of a live-in nanny, a nine-year-old who stops speaking after her death, a whole lot of family secrets, and a best interest attorney who is trying to figure out what really happened. I don’t want to say much more because, as is my recommendation with most thrillers, going in as blind as you can makes it that much more enjoyable.

I found this one fast-paced and completely enthralling. The twists were twisty and the secrets ran deep. Everyone is a suspect. Nothing is as it seems. It had everything we all love in this genre. Honestly, I have really enjoyed both of Sarah Pekkanen’s last releases and am really looking forward to what she is working on for us next.

Highly, highly recommend this one on audio. The EMOTIONS that listening to this one made me feel was top notch! Something about a good thriller paired with a great narrator just does it for me.