Glass Houses
Jan. 14th, 2025 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraGlass Houses, Madeline Ashby, 2024 novel. This is one heck of a book - half scalpel, half battle-axe. Tense and gripping and nicely done. Best thriller I've read in awhile plus some truly chilling near-future SF. Content note for murder and gendered violence (and as always I'm happy to get more specific if anyone is trying to figure out whether to read or skip).
I want to do an "it's like x plus y" blurb but it might be too spoilery, so here's a cut, and one more vaguely spoilery statement:
_Lost_ plus _And Then There Were None_ plus _House of Stairs_ plus _Glass Onion_ plus "Don't Create the Torment Nexus".
I really liked that I caught on to some of what Ashby was doing almost immediately, and yet there were things that kept me guessing the whole way. And I liked that there were some things she never went back and spelled out; the implication was there if you caught it or not if you didn't.
I want to do an "it's like x plus y" blurb but it might be too spoilery, so here's a cut, and one more vaguely spoilery statement:
_Lost_ plus _And Then There Were None_ plus _House of Stairs_ plus _Glass Onion_ plus "Don't Create the Torment Nexus".
I really liked that I caught on to some of what Ashby was doing almost immediately, and yet there were things that kept me guessing the whole way. And I liked that there were some things she never went back and spelled out; the implication was there if you caught it or not if you didn't.
