Gripping and tense!

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Cally Taylor is so good and very consistent with her tales of terror! Sleep is an excellent example of this - the first chapter is fantastic and really sets you up for a sinister story set on a remote island cut off during a particularly vicious storm.

Set on the Isle of Rum, the gloom of an approaching storms sets the atmosphere perfectly in this brilliantly put together story. We follow Anna who after surviving a serious car accident that claimed the lives of some of her work colleagues, is struggling to move forward from the devastation. She feels guilty and struggles to sleep every night which just makes her feel worse day by day. 

Following her decision to move to the small Scottish Island, she senses things aren't what they seem from the seven guests that have just arrived for a walking trip...... As Anna struggles to sleep, we do get the sense that she is almost starting to lose the plot. Although she is convinced someone is out to scare her, we do start to doubt her sanity.

Cally Taylor has written a masterpiece here and I devoured it in a day. I began to suspect all the guests in the same way as Anna! The action really ramps up when the hotel loses all communication and they effectively become stranded from the outside world.

A fantastic page turner from the author, I was gripped from the first page and hooked until the I turned the last satisfying page.

Another magnificent piece of work from Cally Taylor and I can't recommend enough!