Sara Gran has such a wonderful way with words that she can not only paint the perfect picturesque setting in the book, but she can also create vivid, realistic characters that will grab onto you and not let you go, even after you’ve finished the book. Every single time I read this book, I am taken from my life into Amanda’s immediately. I love the plot, I love the characters, I love the dreams in some of the chapters. “By now the most shocking truth wasn’t that there were more like her and me, or that her ability to manipulate me was growing so rapidly – it was that, previously, I had been so stupid as to think I had any understanding of the universe at all.” It’s a truth she can’t do anything about, a truth she can’t even tell her husband, with whom her relationship has turned quite chilly.Īnd the demon has no intention of leaving her. With increasing intensity each night, it was slowly starting to drive the couple kind of crazy.īut it was nothing compared to what came next.Īmanda starts noticing changes in herself – she starts smoking again, getting in fights with her husband, and even shoplifting – and she is losing chunks of time and not remembering what happens during them.įinally, Amanda comes face-to-face with a horrifying truth. She heard it in her apartment, and so did her husband – but they both just assumed it was a mouse, or the old building they lived in. Her life is a good one, and she is happy with it. And neither did I.”Īmanda is your average thirty-four year old, who also happens to live in her dream apartment, have a job she loves the salary of (she’s an architect), and is married to the love of her life. “We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental, but most of us don’t. Not the kind of “old friend” that the main character, Amanda, encounters in this book (thankfully!), but an old friend that can comfort me even when I’m having a really bad day (not as bad as Amanda’s days, but hey).
And since it is so short, it makes it easy to return to it time and time again.Ĭome Closer is kind of like an old friend.
I have read this book easily over ten times now. I was kind of skeptical because of how short it was, not sure that there would be enough time for any real character development, but I was so surprised when I read it for the first time.
“What we think is impossible happens all the time.”Ĭome Closer by Sara Gran is one of those books that I took a chance on – it sounded interesting and it was available to read for free on Prime Reading, so I gave it a go.
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