Book Review: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

Book: 71/150

Rating: 4/5

Summary: In 1982, Viv gets a job working as a night clerk at the Sun Down Motel. If the night shifts weren’t creepy enough, Viv starts to think she’s hearing and seeing things. On top of that, she becomes obsessed with a trend of missing and murdered women in this strange small town... flash forward to 2017 Carly, a budding murderino and Nancy Drew, wants to find out what happened to her Aunt Viv when she disappeared late November 1982.

Thoughts: I love the alternate timelines and narrators in this one, and how Viv and Carly are so similar. I love thrillers/mysteries where the leads are Veronica Mars/Nancy Drew-esque (A Good Girls Guide to Murder is a great example of this) and aren’t total morons when pursuing a mystery on their own. It was a great ghost story without it being unrealistic. It was very spooky and creepy at parts, but honestly the part that made the book most enjoyable for me were the badass leads.

Her book The Broken Girls is also great, but I think I enjoyed The Sun Down Motel more!