Though her narrative style is fast-paced and matter-of-fact, her blackouts, erratic behaviour, and frequent loss of control mean we can never be certain what to believe. With the story told in first-person, Amanda is a classic example of an unreliable narrator. Will Lily fulfill her own desires, and join them? Or will she lose it all searching for a ghost? The Book of the Most Precious Substance is an addictive erotic thriller about the lengths we'll go to get what we need-and what we want.A woman with a seemingly perfect life starts to act out in increasingly strange and violent ways, eventually coming to fear she has been possessed by a demon. Her search for the book takes her from New York to New Orleans to Munich to Paris, searching the dark corners of power where the world's wealthiest people use black magic to fulfill their desires. And some of the wealthiest people in the world are willing to pay Lily a fortune to find it-if she can. The Book of the Most Precious Substance is a 17th century manual on sex magic, rumored to be the most powerful occult book ever written-if it really exists at all. Until she gets a lead on a book that just might turn everything around. And a twist so shocking, no one will come out unscathed.Īfter a tragedy too painful to bear, former novelist Lily Albrecht has resigned herself to a dull, sexless life as a rare book dealer. A down-on-her-luck book dealer hoping for the sale of a lifetime. And there's a third magic we only wish we could do: pay in blood to go back, read this book again for the first time." - Stephen Graham JonesĪ mysterious book that promises unlimited power and unrivaled sexual pleasure. There's what these characters are trying to do, mixing books and sex and spells, and then there's the magic Sara Gran is doing to us, as we compulsively read this literary thriller.
"There's two types of magic at play, here. I loved it." - Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls And it's all brilliant." - Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World
"Sara Gran's THE BOOK OF THE MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE is a mix of book buying mystery, erotica, and a pinch of Clive Barkerian obsessive existential horror, but it's all Gran.
"While Lily's hunt propels the story forward, it is Gran's frequently exquisite prose that demands investment from its audience." - Bookpage, Starred Review "Gran perfectly captures the eccentric world of antiquarian bookselling while portraying a profound and magical reckoning with loss and the possibility of going on. The search for pleasure and magic is an aphrodisiac, one that pulses on the page." - Danielle Trussoni, The New York Times "Gran's writing, like the grimoire, is palpably seductive. The highly anticipated new thriller from internationally renowned author Sara Gran, author of Come Closer and the Claire DeWitt series. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series).
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