I am so delighted to welcome you to my thoughts on Sleep by C.L Taylor. This is a fabulous read and so addictive let me show you what it is all about…

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… 

WOW! I loved this book so much. C.L Taylor does such a fabulous job of adding suspense, mystery and intrigue into her stories that leave a chilling feel to them Sleep is no exception.

The story is based around Anna. I first meet her as she is driving back from a team building holiday. A slip of concentration leads to a horrific accident. The guilt that Anna feels is leading to her not being able to sleep. Along with the guilt there is also someone watching her, things get so bad that she relocates to the remote Scottish Isle of Rum and works in a hotel.

You would think that removing herself from the London area that the threat would stop, but she still senses that feeling of dread and of being watched. Things continue to get worse and leads to Anna suspecting the guests.

This is such an atmospherically chilling read. The author does a fabulous job of creating a story that explores the depths of Anna’s feeling of guilt. She weaves so much mistrust and suspicion into Anna’s story that it was hardly surprising that Anna cannot sleep. The other characters/ guests at the hotel also have things to hide and it is really brought out into the open when a bad storm leaves everyone isolated. A perfect setting for a murder and mystery story.

Along with the island characters there are also others, they have a part to play in the grand scheme of the story and I gradually got to know them.

The story moves at a really good pace and this is helped by the quick chapters. They are told from different perspectives and are easy to follow as each chapter is given the title of the name of the person whose perspective it is. Well apart from one character, their chapters are set out in italics!

This is such a wonderful read that had me addicted within the first few chapters and kept my attention until the very end. It has a wonderful psychological thriller suspense feel as I read and I felt that the author really got inside the heads of her characters.

If you like a good murder mystery, psychological thriller read that has bags of suspense then you really should pick up a copy of Sleep. I think this may be my favourite Cally Taylor book so far. I would Absolutely Recommend this book.

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