So Close (Blacklist #1) by Sylvia Day

 

From Goodreads

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crossfire® saga comes the beginning of a twisty tale of obsession and rage, as a trinity of women protect what they covet at any cost.

You can’t believe all of them, but can you trust any of them?

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 on the streets of Manhattan. He whisks her up to his towering penthouse, protectively under guard, nestling her in dark opulence where Lily’s memory is a possessive beguiling force.

Aliyah, Kane’s mother, deals in science. There are too many questions, too few answers, and too much at stake. “Lily” has dangerous control over Kane and there can be only one queen on the throne.

Amy, Kane’s sister-in-law, has been bloodied by deceit and betrayal, and she’s devolving into murderous rage. She’s paid too high a price and now intends to claim what she’s owed.

Three women, linked by buried secrets, circle the man who unquestioningly accepts the return of his beloved long-dead wife. Kane is happier than he’s ever been, and he’ll do anything to stay that way.

Propulsive and sly, So Close is a lushly gothic novel of domestic suspense with the emotional intensity, scorching sensuality, and complex exploration of female trauma that are the hallmarks of multimillion-copy international bestseller Sylvia Day.

My thoughts

I grabbed a copy of this from BorrowBox the digital lending side of my local Library.  

This is the first in the Blacklist series and to be honest I don't think I will be reading any more of the series.  It's not the story as such that I hated, it was the way that it was written from multiple POVs that I didn't like as there were too many of them..  Due to not being able to read it from end to end and picking it up occasionally reading a few pages at a time instead of chunks, that had me a little lost at times.

Having read other reviews online I can see that this is a definite marmite book and as such this reader is on the fence. There were parts of it that I enjoyed and I was keen to find out what was happening, but there were also parts were I really couldn't have cared less what happened to the characters.