The Sun Down Motel | Simone St. James | Book Review
This thriller+horror book is for you if you love spooky horror movies that follow unusually curious protagonists who uncover deep dark secrets of places, families or themselves. The Sun Down Motel follows two timelines, which appear to be confusingly interchangeable to the reader. But, it has all the elements of a pure horror book, that’ll give you the chills and thrills. Viv Delaney had disappeared from the Sun Down Motel thirty-five years ago. Now, her niece Carly Kirk is back in Fell, determined to uncover the secret behind her aunt’s disappearance all those years ago. Soon she finds out that the Sun Down in not a normal place, it has a dark secret that looms over the almost alive motel. A large chunk of the book actually deals with Viv(then) and Carly(now) digging up the pasts of the women who had disappeared from the Sun Down. So, a lot of newspaper articles, online searching, photographs, stalking and investigating. I felt that some of the sub-plots did not properly blend into th...