The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I enjoyed reading Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven even though I'm not crazy about dystopian fiction - a bleak future always puts me in a bad mood.  I saw that The Glass Hotel was about white collar crime and thought I'd give it a go.

We have white collar crime with a bit of The Sixth Sense thrown in.  We first meet Vincent (named after Edna St. Vincent Millay - great character name) as a troubled teen, and we follow her through her life. She's an opportunist and a chameleon, and I'm not sure we ever see who she really is.  Her husband/boyfriend is a much older, very wealthy, financier.  Her brother Paul also pops in and out of her life. 

The story is told through a variety of points of view and doesn't follow a linear progression of time.  This can often annoy me, but it worked really well here.  This book has such depth and so many themes, I know I am not doing it justice in this review.  I'll be thinking about this book for a long time. 

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