Sleep by CL Taylor
Published by Avon Books UK
Publication Date: 4 April 2019
Genre: Mystery/Thrillers
400 pages
Book Description:
All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty…
To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum, but when seven guests join her, what started as a retreat from the world turns into a deadly nightmare.
Each of the guests have a secret, but one of them is lying – about who they are and why they're on the island. There's a murderer staying in the Bay View hotel. And they've set their sights on Anna.
Seven strangers. Seven secrets. One deadly lie.
Someone’s going to sleep and never wake up…
The million-copy bestseller is back in her darkest, twistiest book to date. Read it if you dare!
My Review:
Wow! Cally Taylor has taken yet another step up the ladder of writing talent with this latest book, Sleep. Unsettling, paranoia-instilling, dark thoughts will settle in your mind very quickly once you start reading this novel.
The subject of the story, Anna, has gone through the worst experience of her life which has resulted in the deaths of two of her work colleagues and left another with life changing injuries. She has convinced herself that the accident was entirely her fault despite a court case saying otherwise so she takes the decision to get away from the life she has in order to sort out the mess which is residing in her head and preventing her from getting more than a couple of hours sleep at a time.
She moves to a remote island off Scotland, taking a job as hotel receptionist in the only hotel on the island. She's only been there about a week when the first batch of guests arrive, bringing with them a whole different set of problems for her to deal with.
Anna tries to analyse each of the guests in turn in order to work out which of them could be responsible for the events at the hotel or whether anyone could be connected to the troubles she left behind, but with a storm raging outside they soon become isolated on the one side of the island with no means of escape. The tension ramps up with every day that passes - by this time Anna is 100% sure she's no longer just being paranoid about the things which have been going on: someone is out to get her.
My pulse was racing for the vast majority of this book - I really didn't know any more than Anna who was making her life so miserable. It had to be someone within the hotel as there was no way anyone else could get to them due to the storm, which was so nerve wracking it actually made me feel quite sick. I'm not a fan of authors using weather to reflect a plotline, but in this case the severe storm was essential in setting the scene in order to cut them off so thoroughly from any other life. It really played perfectly into the protagonist's hands and made their task so much easier to carry out. There's a clever little scene which I hadn't bargained for in the conclusion to this novel which will give you one last chill before you put this book to bed - nicely done, Ms Taylor. I am suitably impressed and will be thinking about this book for a long time yet.
The subject of the story, Anna, has gone through the worst experience of her life which has resulted in the deaths of two of her work colleagues and left another with life changing injuries. She has convinced herself that the accident was entirely her fault despite a court case saying otherwise so she takes the decision to get away from the life she has in order to sort out the mess which is residing in her head and preventing her from getting more than a couple of hours sleep at a time.
She moves to a remote island off Scotland, taking a job as hotel receptionist in the only hotel on the island. She's only been there about a week when the first batch of guests arrive, bringing with them a whole different set of problems for her to deal with.
Anna tries to analyse each of the guests in turn in order to work out which of them could be responsible for the events at the hotel or whether anyone could be connected to the troubles she left behind, but with a storm raging outside they soon become isolated on the one side of the island with no means of escape. The tension ramps up with every day that passes - by this time Anna is 100% sure she's no longer just being paranoid about the things which have been going on: someone is out to get her.
My pulse was racing for the vast majority of this book - I really didn't know any more than Anna who was making her life so miserable. It had to be someone within the hotel as there was no way anyone else could get to them due to the storm, which was so nerve wracking it actually made me feel quite sick. I'm not a fan of authors using weather to reflect a plotline, but in this case the severe storm was essential in setting the scene in order to cut them off so thoroughly from any other life. It really played perfectly into the protagonist's hands and made their task so much easier to carry out. There's a clever little scene which I hadn't bargained for in the conclusion to this novel which will give you one last chill before you put this book to bed - nicely done, Ms Taylor. I am suitably impressed and will be thinking about this book for a long time yet.
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