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The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James


4.5/5 ⭐

Haunted motels, serial killers, and missing people. A good selection for a horror novel. And a great selection for this novel by Simone St. James.

This horror plot follows both Viv and Carly in two very different journeys involving the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. Viv, a young women working the night shift at the hotel with dreams of New York City in 1982. And Carly, Viv’s niece, desperate to learn what happened to her Aunt all those years ago on the night she disappeared.

I’ll admit, from the description and setting St. James created from page one, it was clear that this was going to be a spooky horror story. But I think that was part of the build up. And the description alone gave me chills.

I am not usually a fan of the back and forth POV shifts, nor am I a fan of first person but I found that neither bothered me her as they have in the past. I liked seeing what was happening in the past that Carly was trying to uncover in the present. It built the suspense as we got closer and closer to the truth.

And did it build. With an explosive ending and nicely tied up endings, this was a solid horror story.

1/25/22

*This review was previously posted on my Google Site.

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