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A review by horsley123
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
4.0
This is very different from Station Eleven - a book which I adored. This tale is set in the past, present and future - and in particular deals with the unsavoury world of financial scams.
There is a large cast of characters which took me a while to get to grips with. At some point another group of people joined in the story and I was a little confused as to what they were doing there - but hang on in there, as it all becomes apparent. Once we had dispensed with the nitty gritty of the Ponzi scheme I really enjoyed the character development and the hint of other worldliness that danced through their experiences.
There is a large cast of characters which took me a while to get to grips with. At some point another group of people joined in the story and I was a little confused as to what they were doing there - but hang on in there, as it all becomes apparent. Once we had dispensed with the nitty gritty of the Ponzi scheme I really enjoyed the character development and the hint of other worldliness that danced through their experiences.