The Vacancy in Room 10 is the first Seraphina Nova Glass book I’ve read. I loved her writing style and how the story came together.

The Vacancy in Room 10 is the story of three broken women and how they end up helping each other.

Cass has just broken up with her long-term boyfriend. She has nothing to her name and has to move to a dodgy apartment complex called the Sycamores. She takes on the job as handy person in exchange for her rent and makes the best of her new life.

Anna’s husband has just passed away and she decides to sell their house and move into his art studio at the Sycamores. She soon realizes that her husband’s death was not self-inflicted and starts to investigate.

Rosa is a young mother and in a bad marriage who also lives at the apartment complex. She’s one of the “pool girls”. She’s quiet but has many good connections at the Sycamores.

All three women live their separate lives until a series of events happen.
A murder and a shocking discovery become intertwined.
(I can’t say more - no spoilers from me!!!).

Eventually, the three women help each other and things fall in place.

The Vacancy in Room 10 has many surprises and an interesting story. I liked the writing style, the characters and the setting.

This is a great read for thriller fans.

** Thank you NetGalley and Harlequin for this ARC!

The vacancy in room 10 is a gripping edge of your seat must read. From the multiple murders, the cartel, love and relationships this book has it all. The suspense will leave you wanting more.

Loved this book. It was fast paced and entertaining. There wasn't all the extra fluff that bores me but was descriptive enough that I created the image in my mind.

If you have ever lived in crappy apartments you will be able to relate to this book. I spent so many years in places like the Sycamore's that I was having flashbacks.
I love Sinatra. What a little angel.
Oh my gosh this book had so many turns I wasn't expecting! That ending too!
I was bawling. That is the perfect ending.

While I didn't love this book, I also did not hate it. If you can push through the first half of the book which builds a lot of background knowledge for the second half and moves at a slow pace, you may enjoy finding out what truly happens. Told in dual points of view, learn from Cass, a woman down on her luck, and Anna, a woman whose husband has just committed suicide to determine how their lives will eventually interlink in a way no one originally thought possible.

I think this book had and has a lot of potential. I just expected something more from it based on other books I have read in the past. I'll still recommend this book because it was a good read.

Giving a book less than a two star review is my least favorite thing. However, I think this book warranted it. It was slow, not mysterious, and just kind of awful. Quite frankly it was the worst book I’ve read this year.

Even if I could get myself to loose my common sense for a bit, this book was so disjointed that it didn’t even make sense. The best part about it was an eight year old boy who doesn’t even feature that much in the long run.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is my first time reading this author, and it certainly won’t be the last. This was a page-turner, especially the later half of the book. Once I hit the halfway mark, I couldn’t put this one down.

I enjoyed the alternating perspectives of Cass and Anna, which added to the mystery and suspense. By far my favorite parts of this novel were the incredible cast of characters who felt real and the richness of the setting.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁:
🔑 secrets
🔑 blackmail
🔑 mystery and suspense
🔑 dual POV
🔑 incredible cast of characters
🔑 depressed rundown motel

I highly recommend this one for fans of crime and domestic mystery thrillers.
My rating: 4.25⭐️

Thank you @NetGalley @graydonhousebooks @htpbooks for the gifted copy. Opinions are my own.

I love nothing more than an isolated location thriller, and Seraphina Nova Glass really delivers with her new thriller, out April 9.

Told in alternating views from Cass, the apartment manager/handyman who is forced to live at the run down Sycamores after being unceremoniously cheated on and dumped by her wealthy boyfriend, and Anna, whose husband died by suicide and whose art studio apartment she has moved in to. As Anna tries to understand the end of her husband's life and the cryptic last call she received, she bumps into the secrets Cass and the other residents are keeping.

There wasn't necessarily any CRAZY twists, but I still enjoyed the reveals throughout Anna and Cass's journeys. Both women also grow immensely in their journeys to find the truth without the men who turned their lives upside down. There were a couple of moments where Glass keeps some information hidden for a big reveal which were occasionally clunky, but overall I thought the pacing was excellent, the side characters were hilarious, and the crime(s) and their reveals kept me on the edge of my seat. It's definitely in my top thrillers, but I still think my favorite book by Glas remains On a Quiet Street.

Glass delivers another fun, bingeable domestic thriller here following a rundown apartment building and its residents - mainly Cass, the “handy-ma’am” who works there in exchange for rooming, and Anna, whose artist husband has recently committed suicide, and she temporarily lives there to investigate clues around a room he rented as an art studio.
It starts out with a few seemingly different threads to the plot and Glass does a good job connecting everything in the end.
I’m seeing a lot of glowing reviews for this one, and I did really enjoy it but I don’t think it does anything particularly new here,

I actually don't have any real complaints about this book! It was pretty solid as far as thrillers go. I have quite enjoyed this author in the past, so I had a hunch that I'd like this book. I was able to guess bits of this story as I was reading but it didn't make me like it less. Fun, quick read. I think I liked On A Quiet Street better, but it's definitely not my last read by Seraphina Nova Glass. 😊 Thank you to Netgalley and Harlequin for the ARC!

This book was a wonderful and wild ride full of intrigue and females supporting each other! Kind of a weird combination but the story could never have come together without all the different parts each woman played. The characters and the situations they found themselves in were unique and compelling, making this one of my favorite books from this author! Even the wildest of twists made sense in this surreal thriller. I don't want to give more details than the provided summary so I don't accidentally ruin a twist for someone. Just clear your calendar before you sit down to start reading!

This was a solid thriller! I’ve read several of this author’s books and her writing is always amazing!

I don’t want to say too much, but there were a lot of twists and turns that I didn’t see coming and the ending was satisfying!

It’s not very fast-paced, which is what I prefer, but I still enjoyed it and found it entertaining.
However, I didn’t feel too invested in the characters and I wasn’t constantly thinking about the book or dying to pick it back up.

It’s also set in Santa Fe, New Mexico which is close to where I live, so that was a fun detail too!

If you haven’t read On a Quiet Street by the same author, I highly recommend that thriller & I think it’s my favorite from this author!

The Vacancy in Room 10 will be available on April 9th!

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the advanced copy!

4.5 stars! What a terrific book! The Vacancy in Room 10 is full of suspense, emotion, mystery, thrills, desperation, resilience and some humorous moments too. I had a hard time putting it down.

The story centers around the lives of the characters at The Sycamores, a previously run-down motel converted into no-thrills and somewhat creepy apartments. Most of these people have had to deal with some serious tragedy in their lives and are trying to pick up the pieces and move on. There's Cass who is learning to survive on her own after being kicked out of her boyfriend's house/"comfy" life and being replaced by someone much younger; Anna who is searching for answers after her husband Henry commits suicide; Callum, a handsome school teacher who is coping with the recent death of his wife from cancer; plus a whole mishmash of other interesting and funny people who make this an entertaining, but gripping read. Despite the seriousness of their situations, the storyline had plenty of upbeat, comical moments in addition to the edge-of-your-seat tension created by the mysteries, crimes and abuse going on. Glass did a fabulous job of creating unique and meaningful relationships between the characters, and by the end, I found myself rooting for most of them. This was my first read by Seraphina Nova Glass, and I am looking forward to more. Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing, Graydon House for the digital ARC.

Wow this was suuuuch a good thriller. I felt confused and anxious at MANY parts throughout the book which is always a good sign — I felt like there were sooo many different paths that this could’ve gone down but the ending was so good!

The characters were all so varied and I loved getting to know them all. The story mainly follows Cass and Anna, two fairly well to do women whose lives have been turned upside down. They find themselves living in a run down motel turned apartment complex where things start to take a turn.

I was totally hooked from the beginning and read this in one sitting!

Thank you to Harlequin/Graydon House for the ARC through NetGalley.

This is the story of two women who find themselves deeply intertwined in the found family of a rundown motel apartment complex after their lives go off the deep end from the actions of the men that they loved. Cass is the handy woman at the Sycamores, a humble home she's found herself in after a violent confrontation when she discovers her partner having an affair. Anna is a grief stricken widow whose husband had an art studio in one of the Sycamores' apartments and has just taken his own life leaving Anna to go move in and go through his things to try and find answers.

The strongest part of this book was the found family and female friendships at the Sycamores. This is a cheap, slummy motel that was transformed into apartments that house people down on their luck, running from their past, and with potentially nefarious backgrounds. The "pool girls" were everything in this story. They had very little to do with the actual thrills and mystery in this book but just provided a warmth and affection that I adored. Also, Rosa?? What a badass. The story is told in alternating points of view, Cass and Anna, and I was far more interested in Cass' chapters. I was really hoping that the storyline we get introduced to in the very beginning of the book with Cass was going to be a main plot line but that gets overshadowed pretty quickly.

This book did have some pacing issues for me. As I said, I didn't really like Anna's chapters. I thought they were so slow moving and really started to hinder the pacing of the overall story. I didn't like the direction that the book took - I thought, like I said, that the inital story and background we get in the beginning with Cass was so much more interesting than what actually begins to take place. I think that story line could have also incorporated the pool girls more and I would have loved that. My biggest issue with this book was actually the writing itself. I wasn't the biggest fan of the writing style and there were some choices the author made, particularly constantly including body shaming/fatphobic commentary on the bodies of the apartment residents that really irked me. Why are we having fatphobic main characters when they are the people we are supposed to be rooting for in this story?? Gross.

Overall, this was alright. I don't think the twists and reveals were anything special and I was a little let down with the true plot of the story but I'm glad I got to experience the pool girls in all their glory.

Thank you to #NetGalley, Seraphina Nova Glass, and Harlequin Trade Publishers for the opportunity to read The Vacancy in Room 10, to be published 9 April 2024. Glass does it again with a great psychological thriller. The characters were a riot and the storyline was intriguing with its differing points of view. Glass fans will lap this novel up! Fantastic read. #NetGalley #SeraphinaNovaGlass #HarlequinTradePublishers #TheVacancyinRoom10.

My first novel of Seraphina Nova Glass and I'm in love with it! How have I never heard of this author before? I remember reading excellent reviews of the book on Goodreads and requesting it but it surpassed my expectations.

Told from two women's POVs, Cass and Anna, this was twisty and hilarious. I loved the characters (not a single dull one) so much that I kept wishing this was a series ("The Sycamore Ladies" if I may?) and kept looking for evidence that it was.

It was a wild ride that kept me both on the edge of my seat and hoping it wouldn't end. I can't wait to read more from the author. I highly recommend the book!

Thanks to Netgalley and Graydon House for the e-copy!

4.5/5

Thank you NetGalley and Seraphina Nova Glass for the opportunity to read this ARC!

The Sycamores, a run down motel turned apartments, are full or secrets and everyone likes to gossip. Cass is pulled to the Sycamores when her life as she knows it is flipped upside down. Anna is also going through her own life changing even when her husband's body is found in the banks of the Rio Grande. Searching for answers Anna is also drawn to The Sycamores, where her husband keeps his art studio. Will The Sycamores and Cass help Anna find the truth?

The Vacancy in Room 10 was my first read from Seraphina Nova Glass but I can't wait to read more! The book captured me from the beginning and kept me guessing. I was invested in the characters lives and felt like I was as The Sycamores with them! The attention to detail was top notch! Some of the dialog I felt like could have been a little more thought out but overall I really enjoyed this book! 3.5 ⭐️ and I can't wait to read more from Seraphina!

Told in the alternating POVs of Cass and Anna, #TheVacancyinRoom10 is a master class in developing endearing characters. From Cass, the handy- ma’am of the Sycamores motel apartments, to Anna who is looking for a resolution to her husband’s death to the pool girlies -you will find yourself wanting to attend the Friday night barbecues with them! They are flawed and funny and just trying to make the best out of each of their situations.

Sycamores is the perfect setting to house these characters as well as all the twists of this page-turner! I could visualize this seedy motel apartment complex as it came to life. You never know what’s going on behind closed doors!

Thank you @htpbooks for granting me access through @netgalley! I loved this crime thriller!