As the book progresses, we return to that hospital room every few chapters to learn another tiny piece of information while the story also unfolds in the glass house. So, before we even get into the woods, we know something bad is going to happen. Ware uses a common tactic in her plot development where she starts off the book in the future, with one character in the hospital, injured, and recently discovering that a murder investigation is taking place. What else makes this book freaky? The party attendees (four girls, one guy) all play with a Ouija board, and scare themselves silly when an unexpected message comes up. But of course, someone ends up dying, and there are drugs and alcohol involved, so it’s difficult to say who is really doing what. That alone is creepy right? They could have played board games the entire time and I still would have been nervous for them. (Aug.The story is about a small, intimate bachlorette party taking place in completely glass house in the middle of the woods over a weekend. Agent: Eve White, Eve White Literary Agency (U.K.).
Ware does a competent job ratcheting up the suspense, but the revelations aren’t as exciting as the buildup. From the catty conversations at the party, secrets from Nora and Clare’s past emerge, particularly relating to Nora’s former love, James Cooper.
Flashbacks show Nora in the hospital, where she’s recovering from an accident that she can’t quite recall and wonders whose blood is on her hands.
Nora and her sarcastic school chum, Nina da Souza, another invitee, decide to make the trip to the remote cottage known as the Glass House, the site of the hen party weekend. Nora and Clare were once inseparable, but something drove them apart. At the start of Ware’s solid but somewhat derivative first novel, a psychological thriller, crime writer Leonora Shaw leads a solitary life in London but receives an invitation to Northumberland to celebrate the impending marriage of Clare Cavendish, a friend she hasn’t seen in 10 years.
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