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The Glass Hotel

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: Dylan Moore
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The New York Times bestselling novel, from the author of Station Eleven.

Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: ‘Why don’t you swallow broken glass.’ Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, just after a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.

Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the towers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

©2020 Emily St. John Mandel (P)2020 Macmillan Digital Audio Contemporary Contemporary Romance International Mystery & Crime Mystery Romance Hotel Fiction New York Heartfelt Suspense

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Critic reviews

"Dylan Moore's cool, smooth narration carries listeners through this story of deception, betrayal, and the cost of guilt. Jonathan Alkaitis constructed the Ponzi scheme of the century, and the novel centers around the myriad ramifications of its collapse. Throughout the audiobook listeners are dropped into the minds of those who were drawn into his web as investors or as co-conspirators. Many are haunted, quite literally, by those impacted by their actions. This is a novel that drifts from one point of view to another, and Moore guides listeners through subtle shifts in tone and accent." (AudioFile, April 2020)

"A damn fine novel...haunting and evocative and immersive." (George R R Martin, author of A Game of Thrones)
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Excellent writing, beautifully woven story, captivating characters. I loved it. Looking forward to the next novel by ESJM.

Beautiful

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The prose is poetic and beautiful and I enjoyed the elements about the Ponzi scheme, but there were too many strands. It feels like three books in one.

Poetic, Beautiful, Although Not Gripping

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Great story & the US actor has a nice voice but can’t do any of the accents relevant to the story from Canadian to British & Australian. It’s a shame they didn’t use a Canadian actor.

Great story let down slightly by dodgy accents

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Quite enjoyed this book. Only reason i did not give it a higher rating is because i can’t decide weather i liked any of the characters or not. I also found it jumped around a lot so found the plot quite difficult to keep up with in places. It was however an interesting setting and idea for a story.

Interisting story but hard plot to follow at times.

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I largely enjoyed the narration, but the accents were distractingly bad. It would have been better not to attempt them. Also some mangled French pronunciation. A pity as it was otherwise good

The accents!

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My bookclub LOVED it but for me story was a little meandering for me. Beautifully written

my bookclub LOVED it

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A great story, beautifully written.

The references to shipping and the imagining of a terrible flu made me wonder if the characters in this book exist in the same universe as those in Station 11?????

Great book - couldn't stop listening

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This book is hard to categorise. It’s best approached with an open mind. It’s beautifully written and the story is well crafted. I was caught up in the characters and events all the way and didn’t want to leave the world created. I’ve enjoyed all of the author’s books. This is not like Station Eleven - which is for me still her best novel - but it is well worth listening to or reading. There is sadness and disappointment at its core with the recurring theme of a wistful longing for what might have been in an alternate scenario, but it’s not a depressing book by any means. The narrator is excellent and tells the story well, evoking the different characters convincingly.

Intriguing and Poignant - recommended

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Tricky one
I think I loved it
But it has a lazy meandering feel about the story that’s a bit unnerving
I think it would have been more pleasing with a punchy twist or reveal
It kind of grinds to a halt not having solved anything at all ?

Asks more questions than it answers

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at times the book feels directionless but it all comes together nicely and it is always enjoyable to spend time with Emily's well crafted characters.

A Pleasant Meander

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