Sleep is packed with eeriness, atmosphere and plenty of characters who aren’t quite who they say they are.
Anna is a great main character; she’s likable but not compeletely trustworthy. I couldn’t always work out whether I felt sorry for her or a little wary of her. As we follow her descent into anxiety and despair, following a road accident that she, as the driver, survives but two of her colleagues are killed and another is paralysed, we see her start to unravel, mainly through lack of sleep. As she ‘escapes’ to a remote Scottish Island, her past seems to have followed her.
I loved the way that the reader knows more than Anna, so we spot warning signs she does not. However, not everything follows the path I thought it would, and there are plenty of surprises along the way – some more believable than others, but all really entertaining and gripping. It has a definite Agatha Christie ‘And then there were none’ feel to it – the ‘whodunnit’ element, the enclosed and isolated space, and the feeling that someone among the main group of characters are not who they say they are.
I don’t want to say anything more because this story is best read with minimum forewarning – the synopsis said enough to get me intrigued and, from the very first page to the last, I was hooked. Another excellent release from one of my favourite suspense/ thriller writers.
Anna is a great main character; she’s likable but not compeletely trustworthy. I couldn’t always work out whether I felt sorry for her or a little wary of her. As we follow her descent into anxiety and despair, following a road accident that she, as the driver, survives but two of her colleagues are killed and another is paralysed, we see her start to unravel, mainly through lack of sleep. As she ‘escapes’ to a remote Scottish Island, her past seems to have followed her.
I loved the way that the reader knows more than Anna, so we spot warning signs she does not. However, not everything follows the path I thought it would, and there are plenty of surprises along the way – some more believable than others, but all really entertaining and gripping. It has a definite Agatha Christie ‘And then there were none’ feel to it – the ‘whodunnit’ element, the enclosed and isolated space, and the feeling that someone among the main group of characters are not who they say they are.
I don’t want to say anything more because this story is best read with minimum forewarning – the synopsis said enough to get me intrigued and, from the very first page to the last, I was hooked. Another excellent release from one of my favourite suspense/ thriller writers.