Pink Glass Houses by Asha Elias
on August 28, 2024
Genres: Fiction / City Life, Fiction / Satire, Fiction / Women
Pages: 431
Format: Audiobook
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There’s a reason people call Miami Beach “a sunny place for shady people.” Welcome to Sunset Academy, the most coveted elementary school in Miami Beach, where there are three categories of families: rich, wealthy, and ultra-wealthy. Perfectly tanned and smiling Charlotte Giordani is Sunset Academy’s alpha mom. With a sleek blowout and relentless charm, Charlotte’s brashness serves her well. She’s up for election as the PTA president and is riding high, having just secured a massive donation from billionaire Don Walker and his socialite wife Patricia. Don and Patricia are philanthropists, media darlings, and the owners of Villa Rosé, a newly built modern glass house that everyone is talking about. (It’s either spectacular or a tacky eyesore, depending on how you feel about billionaires.) Enter Melody Howard, a wide-eyed transplant from Wichita, Kansas. At first a skeptic about Miami Beach and its endlessly hash taggable social scene, Melody finds herself sucked into the glossy, frenetic world of Sunset Academy moms. Melody’s easygoing manner and background in nonprofit management make her an asset to the PTA. But when she emerges as a rival for the PTA presidency, Charlotte begins to unravel. Even the most powerful players on the social scene prove to be vulnerable when an investigation into white-collar crime—triggered by another school mom, the formidable Jamaican-American Judge Carol Lawson—threatens to take down the whole institution. No amount of rosé can soothe tensions as the drama builds to a shocking crisis point.
This book was a little hard for me to get through. It was like reading an adult version of an episode of Real Housewives. It is satire, and the situations were believable for rich people behaving badly. I found Melody moving in and trying to fit in with Miami elite to be interesting. It also shows how that influence changes her. The dialogue between the characters was as superficial as the people they portrayed, which is intentional in a satire. The characters all sounded pretty much the same and were not very likable. I also felt the twist at the end was predictable and would have liked a little more resolution for some of the characters.
Solid three star book for me. Overall, if you are looking for a women’s fiction centered around PTA drama, this is the read for you. It wasn’t my favorite, but I wouldn’t discourage the read if that’s the mood you are in.
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