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The Sun Down Motel
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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.
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.
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Starts off slow but has a many plot twists!! 2 different story lines end up parallel to each other. Heavily women led and we loved!
It was definitely hard going back and forth between 1982 and 2017.
Iâd realize I was reading Vivs story when I thought I was reading about Carly.
But this is story was a good read, Iâd like the supernatural part of it all. The hunt for the possible killer or killers.
Iâd realize I was reading Vivs story when I thought I was reading about Carly.
But this is story was a good read, Iâd like the supernatural part of it all. The hunt for the possible killer or killers.
I've read one other book by this author and while I normally love mystery-thrillers, I don't really read a lot of stuff with actual ghosts that turn out to be real ghosts (as opposed to like just part of the bad person's plan). I was a little skeptical because I do like my mysteries to be set in "real life," but I ended up really liking it. It was just the right amount of creepy for me where I was like -_- but also not scary enough for me to actually freak out.
I also loved a lot of the side characters (more than the main characters) which happens a lot tbh. They all sounded so interesting and were pretty badass, and I wish they had been in the story more than they were. The main characters were actually a bit annoying lol. Val just sort of fixated on a guy as the supposed murderer and stalked him with no actual proof other than a fake name and her intuition. I mean, it obviously worked out, but I was just very much like :/ at her. Then again, I tend to feel that way about a lot of main characters because they are often very Gryffindor and I am not lol.
Loved the ghosts and all that backstory there. Loved the feminist vibes (which made me less interested in the romance - not that you can't be feminist while being in a romance of course, but there were parts where I felt like Carly depending on Nick too much). My critique is that there were too many extraneous characters. Like what was up with Callum? He just sort of stalked Carly a bit and then...died? And even Nick wasn't really necessary to the story other than fulfilling the requisite heterosexual romance tropes. I'm sure there were others, but I'm forgetting them right now.
The ending was sort of eh for me, I feel like it wrapped things up too neatly. I didn't like the very ~sweet ending; it conflicted the tone of the rest of the book for me. I don't know how I would have liked the ending to be, but I wasn't a fan of this one.
Anyway, I generally like this author's writing and I have another book by her that I got from the library, so I'll get to that soon!
I also loved a lot of the side characters (more than the main characters) which happens a lot tbh. They all sounded so interesting and were pretty badass, and I wish they had been in the story more than they were. The main characters were actually a bit annoying lol. Val just sort of fixated on a guy as the supposed murderer and stalked him with no actual proof other than a fake name and her intuition. I mean, it obviously worked out, but I was just very much like :/ at her. Then again, I tend to feel that way about a lot of main characters because they are often very Gryffindor and I am not lol.
Loved the ghosts and all that backstory there. Loved the feminist vibes (which made me less interested in the romance - not that you can't be feminist while being in a romance of course, but there were parts where I felt like Carly depending on Nick too much). My critique is that there were too many extraneous characters. Like what was up with Callum? He just sort of stalked Carly a bit and then...died? And even Nick wasn't really necessary to the story other than fulfilling the requisite heterosexual romance tropes. I'm sure there were others, but I'm forgetting them right now.
The ending was sort of eh for me, I feel like it wrapped things up too neatly. I didn't like the very ~sweet ending; it conflicted the tone of the rest of the book for me. I don't know how I would have liked the ending to be, but I wasn't a fan of this one.
Anyway, I generally like this author's writing and I have another book by her that I got from the library, so I'll get to that soon!
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