Sleep - C.L. Taylor

After a traumatizing experience in London where Anna was involved in a car crash and two of her passengers/ colleagues did not survive and a third passenger was seriously injured,she feels ,apart from feeling guilty, as if someone is stalking her and very soon paranoia and insomnia sets in. So she decides to leave the Metropolis and move to Rum,a small Scottish isle, where she is helping David,the owner, to run a small country hotel. A group of 7 hikers arrive in this charming hotel and they all bring their own secrets and problems. When a storm hits the island and the hotel is completely cut off things start to become a bit uncomfortable. Anna feels more than insecure and is convinced that her stalker is in the neighbourhood… It starts very slowly and I had a hard time getting into this story. Of course,the fact that I wasn’t particularly attracted to Anna and that her fate wasn’t a major concern to me,well it didn’t exactly help. Somehow this story had all the right building stones,(storm, invisible threats ,isolated house,strangers meeting each other for the first time…)but it just lacked something. The different POV didn’t help and their were some strange passages for instance:” He’s dead”, I whisper again. Her eyes fill with tears.”Her being the whisperer… I know that this is a 4 to 5 star rating on most major sites but somehow it had all the promises but it just didn’t fulfil them…

 

14 thoughts on “Sleep by C.L.Taylor”

    1. It has some interesting twists,a good setting and has basically a good storyline but somehow it all feels a bit forced and Anna seems to do a lot of running about…but of course it is always very personal…

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