I was looking forward to reading this book from the moment it came out. I had The Broken Girls on my radar last year, but I never got around to purchasing, let alone reading it. When Simone St. James' 2020 release came out I fell head over heels in love with the premise.
This book is set in a run down motel in a small town. We read two perspectives. One is of a girl Viv who stumbles upon the motel and becomes its night manager in the 80's. The other is of her niece 35 years later, because Viv has disappeared from the face of the earth and Carly would like to find out what happened to her.
The atmosphere for both perspectives is perfectly eery. The setting of the run down motel is scary enough, but it's also haunted by its past occupants.
Little by little we figure out more and more about the motel's inhabitants through the eyes of both Viv and Carly.
I have to be honest, I didn't always fully follow what happened to who especially in the case of boys. There are a bit too many characters in both narratives, and some of the scenes are a lot like each other which makes it hard to distinguish them from each other.
That having been said, it was a perfect 5 star read for me. I couldn't put it down because I simply had to know the ending, and I wasn't let down by it!
5 stars
Statistics:
Date read: August 23, 2020
Date published: February 18, 2020
Publisher: Berkley Books
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 326
Genre: Paranormal
My Number of Books Read by this Author: 1
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