The Glass Ocean in Around the Year in 52 Books

Feb 10, 2019 Angela Jones rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It was fun to read about the ill-fated final voyage of the Lusitania. It is an event in history that has remained a mystery for over 100 years and a perfect setting for a tale of love and espionage during WWI. I loved the story in both the past and the future, which doesn't always happen for me, and I actually loved all three of the main women in the novel. I was a little disappointed with the ending. I won't give any spoilers, but even though I think it ended the only way it could, I was still ...more

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Sep 22, 2019 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary-romance, romance, historical-fiction, mystery, era-early-1900s, audio, historical-romance, spies, multiple-authors, based-on-real-life

For a moment, she thought he meant to change the subject, but he didn’t. He mulled it over, before saying, quietly, “People like simple stories. Good and evil, hero and villain. We try to mold people into familiar roles, roles we can understand. The devoted mother, the heartless adulteress, the wastrel, the toady, the patriot—the traitor. But it’s never that simple, is it?”

I really enjoyed this, but I might have enjoyed it even more if I had read it rather than listened to it. Somehow this ...more

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Nov 02, 2018 Susan rated it really liked it

I've read tons of Titanic books, but none about Lusitania, so I was intrigued by the setting from the moment I started hearing about this book. The trio of popular authors behind the novel intrigued me as well (although I've never read anything by Williams or Willig). I enjoyed the story's characters, historical detail, intricate plot, etc. I even agreed with how the story wrapped up, although I still had a couple questions. Still and all, it was an engrossing yarn that I stayed up late to finis ...more

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