Slow and seemingly aimless at the beginning, the planets move in closer to exert their influence and knowledge. Readers learn about shadow worlds where people live the lives they wish to present to their audience-a life where you can finagle facts and appearances, let your mind wander to lift you from the reality of your existence, so that your misdeeds are the result of other people’s stupidity and lack of action, and not at all a product of your hustle. Having always been adaptable and pragmatic, Vincent foresees an alternate future: acts on it, revels in it until … Vincent lives a fairy tale until one fateful day…. Vincent learns that money is its own country and a select few have the keys to the kingdom. Seemingly unaware of her haunting beauty, Vincent is surprised when the hotel owner shows interest in her and presents her with a life changing proposition. Jonathan Alkaitis arrives at his hotel on the heels of the drama.
Circumstances lead to Paul’s abrupt firing and departure, creating a rift between Vincent and Paul. About a week later, there is an angry message written on the huge glass wall of the hotel, “Why don’t you swallow broken glass?” The hotel staff and guests are deeply disturbed by the implied anger, but only one person knows for whom the message is intended. Wanting to offer Paul a helping hand, Vincent secures a low level job for her half-brother at the hotel. Her dysfunctional childhood leads to frequent job changes, but Vincent is happy in her current position. Vincent is working as a bartender in a 5 Star hotel in a remote area of Canada.
If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t. What you see is most often not what you get. This is one of those books that makes it hard to trust. Anyone who believes in fate, will recognize the whirlwind that sucks up victims and players throughout lifetimes, only to deposit them in some future path, either to assist or rescue, or to create havoc, but insuring lives will never be the same. Her alcoholic, druggie, sometimes productive half-brother Paul, and the owner of the hotel, handsome, wealthy, manipulating Jonathan Alkaitis, various friends and acquaintances, revolve around Vincent as the author reveals a little bit more of what’s really going on. John Mandel (2020) (Fiction)Ĭharacters appear in concentric circles like planets revolving around the sun, as the author reveals, from what seems like left-field, the story of twenty-four-year-old lost, but always searching, Vincent, a young woman named for the poet Edna St. Book Review: The Glass Hotel by Emily St.
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