SO CLOSE by Sylvia Day
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR RELEASES
A LUSHLY GOTHIC NOVEL OF DOMESTIC SUSPENSE
MY REVIEW
First off, doesn’t that cover stop you in your tracks. It sure did me. Then add in all the other goodies, a fabulous story and an award winning author, how could I go wrong. We all know things can happen, our expectations can be dashe, but Sylvia Day caught me from the beginning and kept me til the end. Well done, Sylvia.
His grief knows no bounds. A love he cannot let go. He is obsessed with his wife. Madly in love with his wife. Married to his wife…even in death. He has a charisma that draws women to him like a moth to a flame…and they will get burned.
Witte…so much more than he appears to be. He met with Kane Black, planning on turning down his job offer. He couldn’t resist him either. They have been together for six years. Together, Kane found a reason to go on, to prosper. Witte taught him how to dress for success, protected him, allowed him to pull himself together when he was lost in the pits of despair.
A glimpse. A look of terror. Lily…She is like a Phoenix, risen from the dead. Is she going to burn down the world? What’s the story?
A family more treacherous than any outside enemy.
Things that crawl around in the shadows can never be trusted.
At times I thought it was familiar, but it didn’t take long for Sylvia Day to have me meandering down a convoluted path of betrayal and danger, intrigue and surprise. I love a story I cannot figure out and she kept me guessing.
Told from multiple points of view, the characters are fascinating, good and bad alike. Family means nothing to…most of…them. They have ulterior motives and desires, willing to sacrifice anything to fulfill them. As their true faces are revealed, I am disgusted and delighted.
Some of my favorite characters are Amy, who is a raging alcoholic driven to insanity? Aliyah is someone who would step over a dead body to get to the money. Witte, well, a total surprise and I love him. Can I have one of my own? Kane. We cannot reveal too much or there will be a spoiler alert. The same applies to Lily…and a few other characters who were hidden in the shadows but rose to the surface as we neared the end. They were a pleasant surprise and I cannot wait to read more about them…in a future story. 🙂
I tripped and stumbled over the I and you writing style, so it did affect the pacing of the story. Also, I had no idea this would be a series. That is a good and bad thing, because the story isn’t finished…and by the time I reached the end I was happy it wasn’t, Because I want more.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of So Close by Sylvia Day.
ABOUT SO CLOSE BY SYLVIA DAY
From the #1 USA Today bestselling author of the CrossfireĂ’ saga comes the beginning of a twisty tale of obsession and rage. In SO CLOSE [RĹŤnin House, March 28, 2023], author Sylvia Day takes her fans on a darker and more suspenseful journey than ever before.
Widower Kane Black is still ruinously married to his late wife, Lily. Grief has hollowed him—until he sees a woman with his wife’s inimitable beauty in Manhattan. Kane takes her home to his towering penthouse, where reminders of Lily are everywhere. Aliyah, Kane’s mother, and Amy, his sister-in-law, are suspicious and distrustful of the new “Lily,” who wields dangerous control over Kane. As Aliyah fights viciously to stay on her family’s throne and Amy spirals deeper into the rage of a woman betrayed too many times, the formidable women in Kane’s life attempt to uncover each other’s secrets. But Kane is happier than he’s ever been and will do anything to stay that way.
The first novel in the thrilling Blacklist Duology, So Close is the propulsive and compelling story that Day’s die-hard fanbase has been waiting for. In this steamy psychosexual thriller, readers will experience Day’s trademark themes of survival and vulnerability on a never-before-seen level of emotional intensity and intrigue. Day’s prose are vividly descriptive and entirely unforgettable – readers of So Close will want to return to the book again and again to re-experience its brilliantly intricate mysteries and scorching love story.
Maxine Hitchcock, Publishing Director of Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House UK), says, “Sylvia Day is an author who has captivated legions of fans across the world. So Close marks a triumphant return of a storyteller at the very height of her powers. In Lily, Aliyah and Amy, Sylvia has created an unholy trinity of women, linked by buried secrets, who circle a man who unquestionably accepts the return of his beloved long-lost wife. She takes us on a thrilling, atmospheric and emotionally intense journey which had me thirsting for the next installment. This is the start of an exciting new chapter for an author with an already glittering career.”
So Close is perfect for fans of Jessica Knoll’s Luckiest Girl Alive and Caroline Kepnes’s You series. This story is domestic suspense with gothic elements in the vein of Rebecca with a cast of strong female trauma survivors who are dangerously committed to never being vulnerable again.
ABOUT THE SYLVIA DAY
Her work has been covered in Time, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, People, the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, the Associated Press, USA Today, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. Her bestselling novel Afterburn / Aftershock was developed into a motion picture by Passionflix and released in November 2017. The documentary following her 2016 world tour, Beyond Words: Sylvia Day, was released in October 2018.
Bestselling titles in Sylvia’s canon include Bared to You, Reflected in You, Entwined with You, Captivated by You, One with You, Wish List, A Touch of Crimson, Eve of Darkness, Seven Years to Sin, and more. The sequel to So Close and the final chapter of the Blacklist Duology will be entitled Too Far.
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