In many ways, this book reminded me a lot of Rob E. Soon enough, she finds herself locked in a battle for mental and physical control of her body against a seemingly demonic being. As these events both worsen and increase in frequency, it becomes apparent that the figure in Amanda’s dreams may not be a mere imaginary friend, and is in fact something so much worse. In Come Closer, we follow the story of an architect named Amanda as she experiences increasingly bizarre events, hearing unusual sounds and experiencing vivid dreams involving an imaginary friend from her childhood called Pansy. I’d heard so many great things about this one, so many instances of it being labelled as a modern classic, and it definitely didn’t let me down even with such high expectations. I didn’t know it was getting re-released this year, but when I saw it pop up in my NetGalley feed, I jumped at the chance to finally read it. It had, however, been sitting on my Amazon Wishlist for several years prior to me reading it this month.
Stine’s Goosebumps books, I wasn’t reading adult horror like this at that point, naturally. I never read this book back when it was originally released, but then again, I was only nine years old in 2003, and although my love for horror blossomed around that time with the likes of R. So this is a review for the upcoming Faber & Faber reissue of this book, but I will preface this review by saying that Come Closer (2021) was actually first released a whole eighteen years ago, all the way back in 2003, and I do think that context is important to bear in mind when reading this review.
Come Closer (2021) will publicly release on the 29 th June!🏖️ 🏖️I received an e-ARC of this story from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. But most of us don’t, and I didn’t either.” ― Sara Gran, Come CloserĬome Closer (2003/2021), first published by SoHo Press, this edition published by Faber & Faber, written by Sara Gran. “We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental.
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