It's hard to believe, but this week teachers go back to school! As such, this is my last review under my summer horror theme. My sister was sure I would like it and loaned it to me.
I loved it! So much so I'm putting it on our new wish list as soon as I get done writing this review.
The story is told in alternating viewpoints of Vivian in 1982 and her niece Carly in 2017. Vivian, the troublemaker daughter of her mother's two, takes off from Illinois for New York City to become an actress, but hitchhiking gets her to upstate NY instead. She takes a night shift desk job at a run down motel. In November of 1982, she vanishes without a trace, leaving her purse and car behind. The small police force does a compulsory brief search, but it fizzles and Vivian is forgotten by the locals.
In 2017, Vivian's sister dies of cancer. Carly decides to take a break from college and see if she can find out anything about what happened to her aunt Viv, who no one wants to talk about. She drives to Fell, NY and finds the land that time forgot, including the barely standing but still open motel, now owned by the original owner's son.
OK, so this is definitely sounding like the set up for a Nancy Drew style whodunit, and it totally is, but the Sun Down Motel is haunted, and not by Viv. Assorted ghosts of those who have died in the sketchy motel make their displeasure and unrest known.
I don't want to spoil any more! This was a great read, that held my interest to stay up and finish it! Hopefully I can get this on an order in the near future!
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