After a series of incidents occur, a woman begins to suspect some kind of demonic possession is happening to her…

Come Closer, written by Sara Gran is a very clever look at the way a demon could take someone over. It focuses on the woman, Amanda, who seems to have a good life, a husband and good career and then shows how it can all be taking away by a spirit or demon over time. But what’s fascinating is that some of the things Amanda starts to do while being possessed, are things that to a degree, if ishe had a bit of a push, she might be persuaded to do, possessed or not, such as the first chapter where obscene messages are left on her boss’s desk.

As the story progresses and the possession takes a stronger hold, it drives Amanda into more and more acts of sex and violence and out of character behaviour. Like the possession, Gran slowly draws the reader in as the story begins to grip as it builds to it’s perhaps inevitable climax.

It’s a short novel (running to 165 pages) and the short chapters make it a quick, easy read. Gran mixes the story with some great black humour that balances against the horror aspects of the story.

Come Closer may not appeal to those wanting a truly properly scary horror novel, but it is a scary novel in its own right, of a woman slowly becoming trapped in her own living hell.

Well worth checking out.

Rating: **** out of 5