The House of Velvet and Glass (Paperback)

from annie.michelle

SPOILER ALERT...SPOILER ALERT....SPOILER ALERT... I finished reading 'The House of Velvet and Glass" and loved it! It took me awhile to figure out how the different characters would come together and where the plot was going and just who the heck was Lannie in old Shanghai anyway? haha... loved t...

from Smits

Boston in 1915. Story moves back and forth from a mother and daughter on the Titanic to their family back in Boston to the father's youth in Shanghai China. Main character is daughter Sibyl who discovers she can see in a crystal ball while under influence of opium. She can see into the future. No...

from JBD1

Katherine Howe's second novel, The House of Velvet and Glass (Voice, 2012) is, like her first (The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane), a work of historical fiction set in New England, with flashback scenes aplenty and a few supernatural elements in the mix. This time, though, the main story takes ...

from CynthiaRobertson

Warning: contains spoilersI love an author who's not afraid to kill off some of her good guys, and Katherine Howe kills off not one, not two, but three at the end of this novel. Yes, you will need that box of Kleenex, but don't let that stop you from reading The House of Velvet and Glass. It's a ...

from arielfl

I enjoyed this book much more than Howe's previous book The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. I had such high hopes for Deliverance Dane and felt a little let down. Conversely I went into this book with much lower expectations and found myself pleasantly surprised. The story jumps around between ...