Book Review: Too Close to Home
Too Close to Home by Seraphina Nova Glass is an exciting novel of domestic suspense. I was intrigued by this novel since I have enjoyed several by this author. However, I was getting a little bored by domestic suspense books…you know the ones, where kind-of-rich people are living in a nice, cozy neighborhood and they have secrets. The premise was the same. Yet in Too Close to Home, the pace was relentless and the story was the opposite of boring. I physically could not stop reading. I read the book in around 3 hours, in two sittings. I could not read fast enough, and the surprises kept on coming.
Too Close to Home begins with a typical Labor Day afternoon at a barbecue and neighborhood party. Readers meet the main characters, Sasha, Andi, and Regan. Then Regan’s car blows up and someone dies, right there at the barbecue. Regan wonders if the bomb was meant for her. Her husband is dead, but then someone who looks like him turns up. Is he really gone?
Meanwhile, Andi’s nemesis, Tia, is marrying her ex-husband and their feud is public. When Tia disappears, Andi is the number-one suspect and what she does next surprises even her. I guess we don’t know what we will be capable of until we are put in an impossibly harrowing situation.
Sasha’s character seemed the most generic at first, but then little pieces of her past are revealed. Her son Drew is acting weird and her ex-husband Raffy and love of her life is in danger…could everything be connected?
My Thoughts
The chapters are short and the plot is up there with the fastest-paced thrillers I have read. I am not exaggerating when I say that in every chapter there is a crazy twist or a secret revealed. If you need a relentlessly fast-paced thriller to read, then pick up Too Close to Home by Seraphina Nova Glass. In the crowded field of domestic suspense novels, this one truly rises above the rest by lacking predictability and taking the reader on a journey full of diabolical twists and turns.
Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing, Park Row, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
