House of Glass is a great mystery/thriller that will keep you reading/listening to find out what happens next. This novel makes a great audiobook and the narrator helped add to the experience.

I enjoyed this so much more than I expected! Thrillers can be so predictable and so unique to each reader that it’s difficult to tell if you’ll enjoy it based on reviews. This one did not disappoint!! The narrator was fantastic and kept the story going. She didn’t add any cringiness between characters and I was able to stay invested.

Through the whole book you’ll stay guessing. I thought I had figured it out. I felt like I could and would figure it out and it was a little predictable, but the ride there was frustrating and quick paced. Rose was such a unique character and you can’t help but invest in her. Her story will keep you on the edge of your seat.

My first by Sarah Pekkanen alone and I loved it! The story was 4 ⭐️. The narration was 4.5 ⭐️. Overall 4!!

Thanks so much NetGalley and Macmillan audio for the ALC.

I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was amazing! I was hooked from the beginning and listened to the book all day, finishing it in less than 24 hours. I loved it all the way through and especially the ending. This is an author that I always enjoy and they never disappoint. Highly recommend!

A solid thriller with an added-in mysterious backstory for the main character. I didn't love it as much as the author's last novel (Gone Tonight) but it was pretty good. I was satisfied with the reveal and ending.

As a fan of Sarah Pekkanen I was very excited to very excited to receive “House of Glass” on audiobook.

This book as expected pulled me in with a crumble trail then the twists and turn to shack my world.

We meet Stella Hudson a court appointed lawyer and child advocate. The book is from her POV and flips between her childhood and what’s is currently going on with Rose Barclay. Rose is a child who stopped talking after witnessing the death of her nanny, Tina. We meet Rose’s parents, grandmother and Rose’s boyfriend Pete.

Minor note which is very much a personal thing, I did not like the narrators voice. There was something about which annoyed me.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the advanced audiobook in exchange for my honest review.

This book had me second guessing myself all the way through. Who pushed Tina? Did anyone push Tina? Why is there no glass in the house? The second half of this book brought everything together seamlessly.

The characters created a lot of tension in the book with their hostility and lies. Rose, specifically, brought so much creepiness to the story. The way she communicated with Stella to leave her alone was straight out of a horror movie for me!

I have been a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen since I read her and her co-author years ago. House Of Glass is the perfect quick read thriller! I have been in a reading slump for a few months and this one brought me right back. The parallels between the main character and the little girl are too good. I love that even when I finally put the pieces together it came as a surprise. I enjoyed this thriller. Perfect for beach reading!

House of Glass was my first book by Sarah Pakkanen. While I really enjoyed the ending, it seemed like pulling teeth getting to there. Just seemed like it dragged and wasn’t much going on throughout the book. The ending really did make up for it though if you can make it there.

I did something I rarely do and listened to this partly on audiobook while driving/working and then reading on my kindle when I had down time. I really enjoyed the narration on the audiobook as it added to the suspense and creepiness of the book.
Lawyer Stella had several traumatic things happen to her in her childhood, and now she helps older children (13 and older) as a best interest attorney during divorce cases. This time she has gone out of her comfort zone and agreed to take on 9 year old Rose who is suffering from a case of traumatic mutism. Add in a creepy house with no glass inside, a mom and dad who both seem suspicious and a highly involved granny and you have a very slow burn suspenseful read.
I received an ARC of this title from the NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions are my own.

3 Stars, rounded up from 2.5.

House of Glass is about an attorney, Stella, who is appointed to represent a nine-year old girl, Ruth, in her very wealthy parents' divorce battle after Ruth's live-in nanny falls out of a third floor window at their home.

I listened to this book on audiobook and that may have impacted how I viewed the story, as hearing the words read out loud may have made them more unbelievable.

Stella is trying to form an opinion as to the custody of Ruth, who became mute following the death of her nanny, by learning about Ruth and her family, while interviewing some other characters involved in the investigation of the nanny's death. I found that throughout the book, Stella would form an opinion and seem like she was going to take action/do the logical thing, and then she would just completely 180 and go against what she was initially thinking. She disregarded a lot of behavior by all of the characters, and came to settle on decisions too easily, with some of them being shockingly bad for a lawyer representing a child. There were some twists - one being relatively expected and the other almost irrelevant/not addressed properly. I probably would not recommend this book, but it was a fast-paced, easy listen.

Thank you to Macmillian audio for the advanced copy via Net Galley for my honest review.

This is a tale of two formats.

On my Kindle, I liked this story. The Barclay home was its own cryptic character, the odd family dynamics brought a pervasive tension, Rose’s behavior was super creepy and grandma Harriet was her own enigma. The growing sense of threat to Stella was a nice undercurrent that kept me engaged, and a side story about her friend/mentor Charles added another layer of intrigue. There was a lot to like, even if I didn’t like this as much as last year’s Gone Tonight. I can’t say the ending surprised me, and it did go a little eye-rolly, but overall this was a solid, well-written psychological thriller.

This brings me to the audio. Normally, I love listening along while I read, but as anyone who likes audiobooks knows, a narrator can significantly impact your enjoyment. Unfortunately, that was the case here. If it hadn’t been an ALC, I would’ve stopped listening early on. Was it a poor performance by Laura Benanti? Not at all! It just had aspects I don’t prefer. I don’t like overly tremulous, emotional voicing when a female character is scared. I find it annoying more than engaging. Also Harriet is in her mid-sixties but she sounded like she was in her eighties, which affected believability. I didn’t hate the audio, but I didn’t love it.

So with all that said, the written story gets 4 stars, the audio gets 3 for an average of 3.5, which I’ll round up because the story kept me engaged to the end, and isn’t that what’s most important?

Wow! I loved this so much more than I expected to! I had so many theories, and I still didn’t get it right. Pekkanen weaved an eerie and intricate whodunnit that I could not put down, and she wrapped everything up in a pretty bow at the end. I loved how sinister things seemed at times, and how the MFCs past was woven in to relate the little girl in the story. I bounced between the physical and the audio of this one, and the narrator did a phenomenal job. She helped set the scene to make some parts more chilling. Highly recommend this one!

Thank you NetGalley, St. Martins Press, and Macmillan Audio for my ARC and ALC in exchange for my honest feedback!

Listened to the audiobook and enjoyed every moment of it. The storyline grabbed me from the beginning and every chapter just added a little significant piece to the puzzle. I love when books are written this way so you have to remember small details but they all add up at the end.
Rose’s nanny fell to her death in the family home- did she accidentally fall or did someone push her.. if so, then who?
This is a great read that keeps your attention throughout the book. If you’re a fan of audiobooks, this was a good pick. House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen comes out on August 6, 2024. Thank you to netgalley for my audiobook ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a solid thriller and I found myself really invested in the characters. I felt the fear that the main character was feeling when she was at the family home. I was so curious what was going on in the little girl's head -- and it wasn't what I was thinking at all! The main storyline was fab, and the little bit of romance was sweet too. I didn't love the other storyline as much, and wasn't a big fan of all the coincidences that just all came together magically to wrap it up. So I knocked off one star for that. But overall a good read / listen.

Thanks NetGalley for the ARC audiobook!

3.25 stars★

This was my first dive into a Sarah Pekkanen thriller, and I found the book to be quite enjoyable. It was a fun read, with moments of suspense, a fast pace, and engaging characters. The main letdown for me was how easy it was to predict. The romantic subplot at the end didn't quite click with me. IThe book would've been just fine without it, to be honest.

Sarah Pekkanen's latest thriller book, House Of Glass, painted a vivid picture of a tormented young child living in a destructive household filled with lies and secrets.

The audiobook was narrated by Laura Benanti and begins with a tragic death of the family's nanny, who fell from a second story window of the idillic home. Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney and has been appointed to oversee the welfare of her new client, nine-year-old Rose Barclay. The perfect family facade quickly begins to crumble and Stella is left trying to put the pieces of the tragedy together while struggling to get answers from her pint-size client who hasn't spoken a word since her nanny's accident.

The spooky factor comes into play in the description of the main family's house, a beautiful home on the outside, but inside is a different story. Not a single piece of glass can be found. Everything has been replaced with plastic. Stella also quickly discovers that little Rose is a collector of sharp objects and likes to sneak around the vast house and is keeping secrets of her own. Stella is left trying to decide which family member is to blame for the tragic death of the nanny and which family member is innocent, all while trying to her best to care for her young client.

House of Glass gave me all the creeps, in all the best ways a true thriller can. I gave this audiobook 4.5 stars and highly recommend this as a fantastic summer read.

Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio and Sarah Pekkanen for the advanced audiobook copy of House Of Glass.

This was my first Sarah Pekkanen thriller and I thought the book was good. The books was fun, suspenseful at times, fast paced, and had great characters.

My favorite character was actually the child, Rose. She is mute due to trauma after seeing her nanny dead, so she doesn't speak, but she definitely communicates through out the book, and I loved the scary, mysterious aspect she brought to the story.

The main downside for me was that the book was predictable. Predictability isn't always a deal breaker for me, but with thrillers, it's very important.

I also didn't believe the love interest at the end of the book. It didn't feel organic. It felt like the book was written without it, then just thrown in to check the 'love interest' box. I don't think the book needed it, and the ending would have been smoother without it.

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House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / Pages: 344 / Genre: Psychological Thriller
Audiobook Narrator: Laura Benanti
Duration: 10 hours 43 minutes
Release Date: August 6, 2024

Stella is a best interest attorney who’s sent to evaluate Rose, a nine-year-old girl whose nanny died under questionable circumstances. She lives with her parents who are in the middle of divorce proceedings (since it came out that the dead nanny was pregnant with the husband’s child) and her grandmother. Did one of these people kill the nanny (including Rose) or was it an accident?

This was a classic whodunit where everyone is a suspect. A good story with interesting characters. I especially liked the creepy kid! And Laura Benanti did a great job narrating the audiobook.

Thank you @NetGalley, @Macmillan.Audio, @StMartinsPress, and @SarahPekkanen for my gifted copies.

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen and narrated by Laura Benanti was a great mystery-suspense about Stella, a best interest attorney, who is appointed to determine who Rose Barclay should live with after her parents divorce. Rose's nanny, Tina, was recently found dead after falling through a window of the family's third floor house and Rose saw the body. She is now refusing to speak. Stella is trying to determine how Tina died, was she pushed or did she trip? And why does the house make Stella feel like someone is always watching her? And what is up with the plastic windows and glasses? What is really wrong with little Rose?

Laura did a wonderful job narrating the book. She had perfect speed and pitch and kept me on edge and waiting for the next piece to figure out who done it. Sarah kept me guessing to the end, as I did not see it unfolding the way it did, and I loved every second of this story. I will definitely be on the look out for Sarah's next book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

I genuinely really enjoy this one! I don’t think it was particularly groundbreaking but the twists and writing kept me interested