Book Review | The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Book Review(2020)

Watch what Emily St John Mandel wants to say about her latest book The Glass Hotel in her words

Summary

Emily St. John Mandel, this name is comming up too many times in this pandemic situation. The reason is because she came up with a book Station Eleven few years back. That book was about a Pandemic situation, like a kind of flue. You can read review of Station Eleven here. 

The Glass Hotel just published on 24 March 2020. It is the story of two half-siblings Paul and Vincent. Paul who is a heroine addict lost too many things in his life. He wants to be a composer but things are not going well for him.

On the other hand Vincent, Paul's younger sister who is also a school dropout. She makes an video arts in her mean time. Rest is how their life turns out.

The Glass Hotel's story starts with  Vincent who is a Bar tender at hotel. Vincent meets to a Jonathan Alkaitis, who is a owner of that hotel and also a successful businessman. 

The glass of hotel has everything like A Ponzi scheme, addiction, loss and many more. A rich man at Glass hotel bar who has a lot of money to invest is the centre part of the book.

The Glass Hotel is the story of a bunch of peoples who are in a beautiful hotel when something big going to be happen. They all think that they have an idea about what is going to be happen, but its not true, they are not going to get, what they expected. I don't want to spoil your suspense by telling you the events those are waiting for all of these people in The Glass Hotel. 

All characters in the Glass hotel are interlinked some how, but they are comming together for the very first time.

Overview

The Glass Hotel is the 5th book by Emily St. John Mandel. Her previous book was published in I think arround 2015 which was Station Eleven. 

Emily St. John Mendal tried to explain each and every character in-deep. It is hard to predict for readers what will happen in future and how this is going to change everyone's life. They all are always living in kind of chaos. 

The Characters in The Glass Hotel always keeps looking for a safe place, I think they fear about whats going to be happen with them. To understand this book you have to be concentrated, and try to finish this book in single sitting. 

The book The Glass Hotel is not a huge one, it has 301 pages in it. Emily St. John tried to speak about the current situation in the world. 

There isn't much to tell you about this book. Just grab this book and read it.

Weakness of The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

• The book is hard to understand. I read this book twice before writting this review.
• I think it moves with slow pace.
• It is hard to keep up with all characters, as they all have their own past story.
• The Narrative of the story keeps on jumping from one character to another which makes it a bit confusing.

Strengths of The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

• This book talks about current scenario of world. 
• The writting style of Emily impressed me. And I hope it will be impressive for all other readers.
• The observations on the rich are .

Quotes or lines from The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel

• Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives
• There is exquisite lightness in waking each morning with the knowledge that the worst has already happened
• One of our signature flaws as a species: we will risk almost anything to avoid looking stupid
• It is possible to leave so much out of any given story
• It’s possible to both know and not know something
• Why don't you swallow broken glass

Short Summary of The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel

The Glass Hotel is the story of series of events happened in a Hotel. Paul and Vincent works in that hotel. The series of events happened such that it affects everyone's life in that hotel. 

I don't know why, but it is hard to write summary of this book. You have to read it to fully understand the events of The glass of hotel.