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The Night Shift

Alex Finlay

3.82 AVERAGE

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

New Years Eve 1999
A man enters a Blockbuster video and mercilessly slaughters 3 teenage girls and the night manager. Leaving one girl alive he whispers in her ear
“Goodnight pretty girl”
15 years later the lone survivor is now a therapist and is called to speak to a patient, who like herself, is the lone survivor of a brutal attack eerily similar to her own. But when she hears the phrase whispered in the girls ear, the past and present collide and she finds herself at the center of a mystery she thought long solved.

Well written, the right amount of creep, with a twist I didn't really see coming.
dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Predictable but thrilling 
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I devoured this book! A very quick, addictive, cinematically written read. This was the perfect book to accompany a glass of wine on my patio.
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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DID NOT FINISH

dnfed at pg 100

Lots of twists throughout.
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jkcordray_hudson's review

3.0
mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Enjoyable but nothing special. Finished it pretty quickly because I wanted to know how it ended but was slightly disappointed because most of my guesses were correct. I was however, surprised by who ended up being the killer in the end so that really redeemed it for me!

Memorable quote:
“The sheep spends its life worried about the wolf. Only to be eaten by the farmer.”
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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