Wednesday 4 September 2019

Book Review - Sleep by C. L. Taylor - #HolidayReading Thailand

The Amazon Purchase link below is an Amazon Affiliate link.
Amazon UK
Title: Sleep
Author: C. L. Taylor
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Avon
Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Rating: 5 Stars


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!

Wow what an utterly compulsive read.  Yet again the amazing C. L. Taylor has written something both unputdownable and simply brilliant. 

I always tend to find I read this author's books in one sitting so had been bidding my time to start it when i could give it my full attention.  What better than on a 12 hours flight to Thailand. 

I think it took perhaps 2 and a half hours tops to devour Sleep. No whether I'll get any sleep myself after reading this is to be seen as it was slightly unsettling.

Most of the book is from Anna's viewpoint but what had baffled me initially was how some of the other threads would combine properly. 

Any book that starts with a letter to be read in case of death,  naming the most likely suspects was always going to attract my attention.

There is something rather claustrophobic about the majority of this story set in a cut off Scottish Isle.

Everybody named on that first page of the book could potentially be out to get Anna or have reason to be up to no good.  There are many secrets that will surprise over the course of the book. 

I thoroughly enjoyed and was hooked for the entirety of this story and can only commend the author on writing another superb book. 

If you love suspense,  intrigue, guessing,  or generally enjoy psychological dramas then this is completely worth reading.

Thank you to Netgalley and Avon for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 

1 comment:

  1. I definitely think this is her best book to date. Great read.

    ReplyDelete

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...