The Night Sister
I have read The Winter People by this author and I wanted to read more of her work, so I picked up this novel. I liked the mysterious elements of this novel and I liked the voices of the characters. One mystery dealt with where Sylvie was and the other mystery materialized the night that Amy and her family died. This novel centered on a hotel that had a tower constructed beside it, a replica of The Tower of London. I kept picturing The Bates Hotel with a tower, as I read this novel as there was this creepy and shadowy element to the happening surrounding the hotel and the family that ran the hotel, they felt unusual and dark. I liked the characters as they were a diverse bunch. It seemed that some individuals wanted to hide the past, they never wanted to look back while others were trying to uncover the details as the puzzles transpired. I wanted to feel empathy as events arose, but I hesitated for I felt that I didn’t know who was truly involved, how involved they were and the true story that would accompany that event. The story pops between a few different time periods but the stories all comes together in the end, the characters aging in the process and new individuals being introduced. It wasn’t so much a sitting-at-the- end-of-my-seat read for me but there was that anticipation of what would transpire as I read, who was involved in the events and what the outcome was. I enjoy reading Jennifer McMahon’s novels and I am looking forward to the next one.
