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The Book of the Most Precious Substance
The Book of the Most Precious Substance | Sara Gran
5 posts | 8 read | 1 reading | 12 to read
The highly anticipated new thriller from internationally renowned author Sara Gran, author of Come Closer and the Claire DeWitt series. A mysterious book that promises unlimited power and unrivaled sexual pleasure. A down-on-her-luck book dealer hoping for the sale of a lifetime. And a twist so shocking, no one will come out unscathed. After a tragedy too painful to bear, former novelist Lily Albrecht has resigned herself to a dull, sexless life as a rare book dealer. Until she gets a lead on a book that just might turn everything around. 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. And some of the wealthiest people in the world are willing to pay Lily a fortune to find it-if she can. 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. 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.
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she.hearts.horror
she.hearts.horror
The Book of the Most Precious Substance | Sara Gran
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Bailedbailed

The substance must be 💩

vivastory Ouch. Lol 2mo
julesG It's not 💩 but a different body-fluid. I had a review copy. I didn't bail, but I skimmed to the end. 2mo
she.hearts.horror @julesG Oh, I was being sarcastic 😭. While I liked the narrator, it wasn‘t enough to justify a body fluid book (for me). 2mo
she.hearts.horror @vivastory I think I loved “Come Closer” so much that my brain couldn‘t compute how this went. 2mo
julesG Completely agree. 2mo
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AudiobookingWithLeah
AudiobookingWithLeah
The Book of the Most Precious Substance | Sara Gran
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Pickpick

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3½⭐
Interesting premise, which I was definitely there for…but then it started to lag in the middle and was even a touch confusing. Then about halfway through…bam, it turned into something hella crazy. The narration by Carol Monda wasn‘t great, despite being good with voices; I didn‘t really click with her voice so it made it difficult to enjoy her narration, overall.

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Laughterhp
Laughterhp
The Book of the Most Precious Substance | Sara Gran
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Mehso-so

Hmm, this book was interesting. There was books, murder, mystery, magic and sex. This book was a bit surreal. It had a lot of stuff going on and I‘m not sure I actually liked it.

Lily used to be an author but her husband got sick and she needed to support him 24/7. She ends up becoming a rare book seller and she gets a commission to get a super rare book, only 4 copies ever. And meets a bunch of unique people in her journey to find it.

Laughterhp Using for #doublespin for June (ebook) @TheAromaofBooks 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
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Mogoeg
Mogoeg
The Book of the Most Precious Substance | Sara Gran
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Pickpick

For a book about booksellers seeking to find and sell a book about sex magic, there is only a very modest amount of sex, and only slightly more magic in this horror(?) thriller(?). Still I enjoyed it - mostly for descriptions of: delicious meals at fancy restaurants, dinner parties in old houses with interesting people, and long walks around glamorous cities - Paris, New Orleans, New York, etc. Now that's my idea of escapist fiction!

Mogoeg Although at times this novel resembled a cross between a mid-budget prestige cable show, the Red Shoe Diaries, and an old-school gothic romance, the situation that compels Lily, our protagonist, to pursue the book and seek to change her life is genuinely wrenching. And because the stakes are both high and utterly believable in a very personal psychological sense, Gran really nails the ending, in my opinion.
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Well-ReadNeck
Well-ReadNeck
The Book of the Most Precious Substance | Sara Gran
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Mehso-so

Sara Gran‘s books are always completely banana pants. In this one, everyone is trying to get their hands on an obscure occult book of sex magic (yup, the substance relates). Gotta say, this one may be too over the top for me. #ARC

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