House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

House of Glass

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

A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to uncover who in the family is a victim and who is a murderer. But how can you find out the truth when everyone here is lying?

Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the possible murder of her nanny – in the midst of her parent’s bitter divorce – and immediately stopped speaking. Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney, appointed to serve as counsel for children in custody cases. She never accepts clients under thirteen due to her own traumatic childhood, but Stella’s mentor, a revered judge, believes Stella is the only one who can help.

From the moment Stella passes through the iron security gate and steps into the gilded, historic DC home of the Barclays, she realizes the case is even more twisted, and the Barclay family far more troubled, than she feared. And there’s something eerie about the house itself: It’s a plastic house, with not a single bit of glass to be found.

As Stella comes closer to uncovering the secrets the Barclays are desperate to hide, danger wraps around her like a shroud, and her past and present are set on a collision course in ways she never expected. Everyone is a suspect in the nanny’s murder. The mother, the father, the grandmother, the nanny’s boyfriend. Even Rose. Is the person Stella’s supposed to protect the one she may need protection from?

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

I’ve really enjoyed Sarah Pekkanen’s books, especially her collaborations with Greer Hendricks (specifically The Wife Between Us).

However, House of Glass did not quite meet the mark for me. It had some good parts, but some of it underwhelmed me.

What I liked:

The cover is really cool.

The current storyline of who killed the nanny. Some great motives and characters that really kept you guessing.

Rose. I would love to see this made into a movie so I could see who would play Rose.

What I didn’t love:

Stella’s story, while it did have some intriguing aspects, kinda slowed down the story of how the nanny died. It was very tied to Rose’s story, which added an interesting wrinkle, but it dragged just a bit.

Bottom line: There was a lot of good stuff here, but it just ended up being ok for me.

*This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.*