Pull Me Close by Sidney Halston
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Welcome to Panic, a sultry Miami nightclub where bodies and hearts move to a beat that doesn’t stop at sunrise—the setting for “a magnificent story full of deep emotion” (Sawyer Bennett).
Katherine: I thought I could enjoy a night out like a normal person. I thought I could handle the flashing lights, the pulsing music, the crowded dance floor. I couldn’t have been more wrong. After having an anxiety attack and passing out during my sister’s engagement party at Panic, I wake up in the arms of the hottest guy I’ve ever seen. Nick Moreno’s no gentleman. But he might just be the man I need to help me take control of my life.
Nick: When I hear there’s some random girl passed out in the back room of my family’s South Beach nightclub, I’m pissed. My dad’s already behind bars and we can’t afford any more bad press. But after giving her a lift—literally—back to her apartment, I stop seeing Katherine Wilson as some random girl. She’s gorgeous, vulnerable, and braver than she knows. And when we kiss, all I want to do is pull her close and promise that she’ll always be safe in my arms.
Pull Me Close
Interesting characters.
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💜🩵
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: ☺️😊😁🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Katherine – she was trapped in a subway for nearly an entire day in New York on September 11, 2001. The passengers on the train knew something terrible had happened but didn’t know what. They were locked down in the dark for hours and when they finally were rescued, it was to find a changed New York skyline. To make matters worse, her mother was in the world trade center and died that day. To this day (15 years later), Kate suffers from severe anxiety, agoraphobia and PTSD which has gotten worse the last few years.
The Hero: Nick – he and his family own the trendiest nightclub in town; a place called Panic. His father used to run the place and got involved in the drug trade and has since been arrested and is in jail. Nick and his twin brother Matt are now struggling to make a go of the place without the drugs and to keep it a clean establishment. Nick had been in love with a girl who eventually got into drugs and when she left, she took most of his money.
The story: Katherine hasn’t told her sister about her issues, so when her sister has a party at Panic, Kate decides to try to leave her house and go. Though when she is in the club, filled with people, her anxiety gets the best of her, and she has a severe panic attack and passes out. She ends up in Nick’s office and he is none to happy, thinking she is a drug addict who got too wasted and passed out.
The two main characters have a lot to overcome in this book, and the misunderstanding about her being a drug addict was just the start. Though I liked the characters, this book didn’t strike me as anything spectacular. It was good and I liked that Katherine was able to work on her issues and overcome a lot of her anxieties. She seemed like such a weak character at the start, but she showed that she had inner strength.
This audiobook was told in two points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Aletha George and Joe Arden. Both of these narrators are terrific and have great voices. Aletha George has a soft feminine voice and sounds very natural. Joe Arden is one of my favorite narrators; he has a deep gravelly voice and always does a fantastic job.
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