Her father has died, leaving her and her mother dependent on charity to survive. We cut to the main character, Rósa, struggling to make the right decision for her family. Smoke from the fires in the nearby crofts sends a black scrawl into the icy air–dark runic scribbles against the villagers’ excited white breath.Īs the men near the shore, the people surge forward, fluttering like eager carrion birds, jostling to be the first to gorge on this unexpected feast. He tries not to look down at where the dead hand trails across the slush and ice, like the fingers of a child, balling snow and ready to hurl. They carry the heavy parcel over the sea-ice, back to land. Slowly, a dark shape emerges and flops out onto the ice. The other two men hold him as he starts to heave the body from out of the water. The book opens with a body being dragged out of the sea ice, and it sets the atmosphere for the rest of the novel: About two-thirds of the way through the book, The Glass Woman shifts from a traditional Gothic to something more like historical fiction, and I found that once all the mysteries were revealed, I was no longer as engaged in the story. It’s wonderfully atmospheric and creepy…at least at first. It’s about the dangers of rumors, and how they can poison a community. The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea is billed a Gothic mystery set in 1686 in Iceland that has shades of Jane Eyre to it. TW: This book contains the graphic depiction of a rape. Genre: Historical: Other, Mystery/Thriller
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