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A review by hiveretcafe
None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney
5.0
one of the easiest 5 stars i've given.
I already knew I was probably going to enjoy this because I adore Marney's Breathe series, which was more of a Sherlock Holmes retelling. However, I was really blown away by this book because it kept me HOOKED. It really only took me a while because I'm deep in a video game hole right now.
First and foremost, this book is about Emma. While there are POVs from Travis and other characters, this book mostly revolves around Emma and her character arc.
She's a teen who has come out the other side and survived a serial killer. She survived because she ran and she has been running ever since. She runs as a form of coping. She's recruited by the FBI to work on a small team with Travis Bell, who is headed into law enforcement, to interview teen killers and profile them. This quickly turns into meeting a teen serial killer and also finding themselves in the middle of an active case.
Emma and Travis are written so well and I can see their character journey throughout this book as Emma faces her fears and the trauma of what has happened to her in the past. She wants to help others so that they don't have to face the horrors that she did. Travis wants to avenge his father and keep his legacy alive, and in doing so, he must also face his own demons. They really go on a whole journey in this book as working on this case changes them.
This is one of my favourite bits from the book --
As someone who watched a whole lot of crime shows (i have in fact watched all of NCIS), I didn't know where this mystery was going to go. I didn't know what the motives are, and who the killer was going to be. I really thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and going through the journey with Emma and Travis as they solved the crime and figured out who it was.
Genuinely if you love criminal minds, you'll really enjoy this book. The Naturals who? This book blows it out of the water. The ending ties up the story, but there's a loose thread for a potential sequel. I would LOVE a sequel and get to read more of this and Marney's crime fiction.
I already knew I was probably going to enjoy this because I adore Marney's Breathe series, which was more of a Sherlock Holmes retelling. However, I was really blown away by this book because it kept me HOOKED. It really only took me a while because I'm deep in a video game hole right now.
First and foremost, this book is about Emma. While there are POVs from Travis and other characters, this book mostly revolves around Emma and her character arc.
She's a teen who has come out the other side and survived a serial killer. She survived because she ran and she has been running ever since. She runs as a form of coping. She's recruited by the FBI to work on a small team with Travis Bell, who is headed into law enforcement, to interview teen killers and profile them. This quickly turns into meeting a teen serial killer and also finding themselves in the middle of an active case.
Emma and Travis are written so well and I can see their character journey throughout this book as Emma faces her fears and the trauma of what has happened to her in the past. She wants to help others so that they don't have to face the horrors that she did. Travis wants to avenge his father and keep his legacy alive, and in doing so, he must also face his own demons. They really go on a whole journey in this book as working on this case changes them.
This is one of my favourite bits from the book --
"He thought he knew all this; he thought he was educated, jaded. But Kristin Gutmunsson has torn the veil from his eyes. He wants it back, but he's a better investigator without it. There are no limits, he sees now. There are no monsters. Only people."
As someone who watched a whole lot of crime shows (i have in fact watched all of NCIS), I didn't know where this mystery was going to go. I didn't know what the motives are, and who the killer was going to be. I really thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and going through the journey with Emma and Travis as they solved the crime and figured out who it was.
Genuinely if you love criminal minds, you'll really enjoy this book. The Naturals who? This book blows it out of the water. The ending ties up the story, but there's a loose thread for a potential sequel. I would LOVE a sequel and get to read more of this and Marney's crime fiction.