About the Book
Something hasn’t
been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk
is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York
Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.
Upstate
New York, 1982. Viv Delaney
wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the
night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right
at the motel, something haunting and scary.
Upstate
New York, 2017. Carly Kirk
has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously
disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell
and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since
1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed
her aunt.
My Review
The Broken Girls by Simone St James continues to be a favorite book of mine, so when I was asked to review The Sun Down Motel, my answer was an immediate yes. Taking us between Viv in 1982 and Carly in 2017, the setting is of course the Sun Down Motel in upstate New York – where something has always been off. Carly wants to find out what really happened to her Aunt Viv, who disappeared while working there, and finds herself working the night shift as she sorts through the mystery of the hotel and its peculiar guests.
This book is sure to spook you. There were a few scenes that I found myself holding my breath and squinting at my Kindle – not because I couldn’t see, but because when I watch scary movies I tend to watch with one eye, so that apparently was what I was trying to do while reading. Not the same effect, that’s for sure. But once again I thought the writing was stellar, transporting me to that haunted motel, and trying to figure out what really happened to all the missing girls – and what really happened to Viv. I highly recommend Simone St James, and this was another hit for me.
5 stars
