Close vs Hot Springs: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Gangsters, Criminals, Fiction
Close
Don't miss NO REGRET, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2025. She'll do whatever it takes to keep them together... Hard-hitting and uncompromising, CLOSE by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing'…
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Hot Springs
"In the summer of 1946, the most wide-open town in America is Hot Springs, Arkansas, a city of ancient, legendary corruption. While the pilgirms take the cure in the mineral-rich 142-degree water that bubbles from the…
The verdict
- Readers rate Close highest: Close 4.1 · Hot Springs 3.9.
- Close has the widest readership — 3499 ratings behind its score.
- Close runs the darker storyline; Hot Springs stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Close | Hot Springs | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (3499) | 3.3 (151) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.2 (10) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (169) |
Reception
| Close | Hot Springs | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 3499 | 169 |
| Editions | 8 | 9 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 1152 | — |
| Reading it now | 221 | — |
| Written reviews | 127 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 545 | 253 |
| Pages | 512 | 560 |