But as I said, both were still very interesting, and the switches were done right at the same time. I leaned a little more toward Carly as a character, so I was slightly more invested. I liked both pretty equally since they were both pretty captivating, but I did favor Carly’s timeline. This story focuses on two different timelines, and like many stories, I usually tend to lean toward one or the other. There are some dark places that this book goes, and t here were some points in this that haunted me and it wasn’t just from the ghosts. This book was a celebration of strong women, but also showed the darkness that women faced: from being discriminated in the workplace to the fear we face from predators to more. This one was a lot darker than her usual works, and it really focused on so much of what women face. This book had a slightly different tone than her usual ones. I can’t even use words to describe how haunting and spooky and chilling she manages to make it.Gosh, I could live in her atmospheres forever. James manages to create both amazing moods that transports you back to these two drastically different time periods even though it was only 30 or so years apart (idk if it’s actually 30 years – math is hard).

This time around, she flips back between the time periods of 19. James’s work is her ability to create an atmosphere. I inhaled this book so much until I became one with it and finished it all in one night. I thought my intense binge reading days were broken as I’ve had a quite lackluster 2020 reading year so far, but this book breathed new life in me. James write a book that I will not devour in one swoop? The answer, from all that I have read (and trust me, I have read them all), is no. But something isn’t right at the Sun Down, and before long she’s determined to uncover all of the secrets hidden… Viv Delaney works as the night clerk to pay for her move to New York City.

Some are locals, trying to hide their secrets. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Paranormalīook Princess Reviews receives a percentage of commission from purchases you make after following Book Depository links on our site.

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