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A review by gamz
House of Glass by Michelle Reid
4.0
After reading a couple duds I wanted excitement, drama. And boy did I get it with House of Glass! Michelle Reid has my head spinning with this one.
The book starts with Lily, the h, in hospital waiting for word on her husband’s condition after an accident. They were both in a car, parked, when another car slammed into them. Daniel, her husband, got the brunt of the hit. He died while the doctors were working on him.
In shock, she gave the hospital the name and number of Daniel’s older brother, Dane. She and Dane have a hostile relationship. The passion between them is explosive but Dane hates her because of the other man in her life, Mark. Dane believes she is having an affair with Mark under his brother’s nose and he despises her. He sees her as a cheater, but he still wants her even though she’s his brother’s wife. This makes him excessively cruel to her.
Dane takes Lily home and takes care of everything, including the funeral for his brother. He takes care of her while being just as nasty as he could in between the kisses he steals from her. Poor Lily is in no condition to deal with his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personality. After settling her business after the reading of the will, she decides to leave England and join her parents in Australia. Distance is needed from Dane.
He finds out and follows her to the airport hotel where she is spending the night before her flight. Dane seduces her, while still thinking the worst of her and her friend Mark, and learns just how wrong he was about her. He also learned some really hard truths that night that turned his arrogant world upside down.
Dane was a total ass to Lily. But he was an ass because he was disgusted with himself for lusting after his brother’s wife. He hates her for wanting him back and for the affair he believed she was having with Mark. The truth came as a devastating shock to him. It forced him to see his brother in a totally different light.
I hurt for Daniel, Mark and Lily and the situation they all found themselves in. Lily’s sacrifice allowed the others their happiness but she got nothing. I’m sure that the twist in this book was shocking at the time it was originally published. Now, it’s something we can all take for granted or accept freely. Well, most of us, anyway.
This book reminded me of a time when the freedom to openly love the one you love was something so many fought and died for. That love had to be hidden and MOC’s made it easy to pretend. Thanks God for progress.
the Glass House is a book well worth reading. I loved every drama and angst filled moment of it. I even came around to liking Dane at the end. And Lily finally got her HEA.
The book starts with Lily, the h, in hospital waiting for word on her husband’s condition after an accident. They were both in a car, parked, when another car slammed into them. Daniel, her husband, got the brunt of the hit. He died while the doctors were working on him.
In shock, she gave the hospital the name and number of Daniel’s older brother, Dane. She and Dane have a hostile relationship. The passion between them is explosive but Dane hates her because of the other man in her life, Mark. Dane believes she is having an affair with Mark under his brother’s nose and he despises her. He sees her as a cheater, but he still wants her even though she’s his brother’s wife. This makes him excessively cruel to her.
Dane takes Lily home and takes care of everything, including the funeral for his brother. He takes care of her while being just as nasty as he could in between the kisses he steals from her. Poor Lily is in no condition to deal with his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personality. After settling her business after the reading of the will, she decides to leave England and join her parents in Australia. Distance is needed from Dane.
He finds out and follows her to the airport hotel where she is spending the night before her flight. Dane seduces her, while still thinking the worst of her and her friend Mark, and learns just how wrong he was about her. He also learned some really hard truths that night that turned his arrogant world upside down.
Dane was a total ass to Lily. But he was an ass because he was disgusted with himself for lusting after his brother’s wife. He hates her for wanting him back and for the affair he believed she was having with Mark. The truth came as a devastating shock to him. It forced him to see his brother in a totally different light.
I hurt for Daniel, Mark and Lily and the situation they all found themselves in. Lily’s sacrifice allowed the others their happiness but she got nothing. I’m sure that the twist in this book was shocking at the time it was originally published. Now, it’s something we can all take for granted or accept freely. Well, most of us, anyway.
This book reminded me of a time when the freedom to openly love the one you love was something so many fought and died for. That love had to be hidden and MOC’s made it easy to pretend. Thanks God for progress.
the Glass House is a book well worth reading. I loved every drama and angst filled moment of it. I even came around to liking Dane at the end. And Lily finally got her HEA.