Name: Sleep
ISBN: 9780008301316

C. L. Taylor

Seven guests. Seven secrets. One killer. Do you dare to SLEEP? 'Beware! Sleep does not do what it says on the tin: I was awake until the small hours under its dark and twisty spell.' FIONA BARTON

Sleep

All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn't feel so guilty ... To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum, but when seven guests join her, what started as a retreat from the world turns into a deadly nightmare. Each of the guests have a secret, but one of them is lying - about who they are and why they're on the island. There's a murderer staying in the Bay View hotel. And they've set their sights on Anna. Seven strangers. Seven secrets. One deadly lie. Someone's going to sleep and never wake up ...

Madhuri Sridhara

A locked room mystery or rather a locked island mystery where a woman is stuck with her stalker and she doesn't know whom to trust. Great premise but as the case is with this genre, it rarely lives up to the hype. It's a good book, in theory but the writing falls flat. 

Anna is not a very relatable character. I know she is scared but it seems like she doesn't seem to have any other personality traits other than that. In fact all characters are one dimensional. I understand that these people shouldn't exactly be open books but other than 1-2 people they were just cardboard cutouts of human beings.

Not really looking forward to anymore of Taylor's works.

C.L. Taylor

Seven guests. Seven secrets. One killer. Do you dare to SLEEP? ‘Beware! Sleep does not do what it says on the tin: I was awake until the small hours under its dark and twisty spell.’ FIONA BARTON

Kirsty

I thought this was a decent book. I didn't see the ending comes at all which is always something I look for in a mystery/thriller. For me this one isn't as good as some other C.L. Taylor books I've read. It didn't capture my attention for the first half but it did in the second.