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_readwithash 's review for:
Glass Houses
by Madeline Ashby
thank you NetGalley and the Publishers for the review copy!
Every so often you need a quick thriller to reignite your love of reading, and Glass Houses was exactly that for me.
The story opens with the team for the next revolutionary tech invention, who are on a self flying plane, crashing onto an island. We quickly find out that they're meant to be celebrating, as they're all now massively wealthy as they have been bought out.
The story focuses on their time on the island, where they're struggling to survive, despite the glass house looming over them, presumably with supplies inside. Every few chapters were also treated to a view from the past, before the flight took off.
I have two favorite parts of this story:
1. is that it takes place in an unspecified future, with small dystopian elements sprinkled in. Without much clarification, rules like men and women in parts of the US are not allowed to share a hotel room unless they're married are thrown in, along side of the tech at the center of the novel, a way to create a universal currency based on emotional response. (No more ads in content creation!) The world is eerie enough that you're constantly on edge.
2. I loved that none of the twists gave me reader whiplash. They were fun, interesting, and unexpected, but they fell into the story in a way that was believable, and set up right.
Overall, I definitely recommend this, especially as a summer thriller.
Every so often you need a quick thriller to reignite your love of reading, and Glass Houses was exactly that for me.
The story opens with the team for the next revolutionary tech invention, who are on a self flying plane, crashing onto an island. We quickly find out that they're meant to be celebrating, as they're all now massively wealthy as they have been bought out.
The story focuses on their time on the island, where they're struggling to survive, despite the glass house looming over them, presumably with supplies inside. Every few chapters were also treated to a view from the past, before the flight took off.
I have two favorite parts of this story:
1. is that it takes place in an unspecified future, with small dystopian elements sprinkled in. Without much clarification, rules like men and women in parts of the US are not allowed to share a hotel room unless they're married are thrown in, along side of the tech at the center of the novel, a way to create a universal currency based on emotional response. (No more ads in content creation!) The world is eerie enough that you're constantly on edge.
2. I loved that none of the twists gave me reader whiplash. They were fun, interesting, and unexpected, but they fell into the story in a way that was believable, and set up right.
Overall, I definitely recommend this, especially as a summer thriller.