Book Review: Glass Houses

Glass Houses by Stella Cameron

So I have to be honest because I've been working so many hours at work, I've been having a hard time finding time to read, but I finished a book last night so here is my review.

Glass Houses by Stella Cameron is a mystery/suspense/romance book.  It starts when photographer Olivia FitzDurham photographs a crime in progress without knowing it.  The people involved realize the mistake and are now after her.  She contacts a man name "Sam" who is actually in the scam, but his house is being watched by Aiden Flynn a New York police officer.  Knowing that Olivia is in grave danger he asks her to come to New York.

This story started off slow for me.  I don't know if it was because I've been tired whenever I have read or if the story really was slow.  The character Olivia is from England so there is English slang in the dialogue which can be a little tricky to follow.  Also the characters were hard to follow and like at first.  If I was to give the book a rating at about half way through it would probably be a 2.  But the book did pick up and started to get interesting.  The love scenes are written more raunchy then some of the other romance novels that I have read in the same genre.  But I did feel that the romance happened kind of randomly in the book and was hard to believe.  But in the end it was a bittersweet happy ending with a twist that I never thought would happen.  And because of that ending it was a nice difference than all of the other romance novels of any genre that I have read.

Generally I enjoyed the book, it was slightly different from all of the other books that I have read that are in the genre, but it was hard to get into at first.  I think if I would have started to read this book when I had more time to really read it at depth and allowed myself more time when I read the first ten chapters I probably wouldn't have had as hard of time getting into as I did.



Rating:
3.5 out of 5

On Deck:
Slow Burn by Julie Garwood
Knight of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor
Where's My Hero? (anthology)