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Sleep Sister by Laura Elliot
2.0
Disclaimer: I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and Bookouture in exchange for an unbiased review.
Laura Elliot's Sleep Sister is about two sisters who have both suffered a traumatic experience when they were younger and how it shapes their lives in the future.
Beth, the older sister, runs away from home when she's a teenager, leaving behind her younger sister Sara. Years later, when Beth visits, her and Sara make a pact to never talk about this experience.
Time jump to 26 years later, we are introduced to Eva, who's birth is a mystery, and so she begins digging into her past to find out where she's from.
Now, I'm all for time jumps, I understand their necessity, but the first part (and there were 4), started off really strong and I was really getting into it, but then the time jump occurred. And that's fine, but, I had a hard time recovering that same urgency that I had to continue reading. It's not that Eva's story was boring, per se, but the writing, there was something about it that felt very old-school and the long-winded sentences just bored me after awhile.
The third part of the story, we are introduced to a whole new plot line, and it ties into the beginning, but nearing the end of the book at 70%, I kinda just wondered why the author waited this long into the book to introduce all these new ideas. And, honestly, at this point, I didn't really care that much.
With all the time jumps, it was also very hard to keep track of all of the characters, and some of the characters, I just didn't even see the point of them, it was almost just filler.
The last 20% of the book, the pace picks up again and more truths are revealed and Eva learns more about her past, and I wanted to finish the story, but it almost felt that by that point I was just finishing for the sake of finishing it.
It was an ok book, but it's being advertised as this psychological suspense story, and I didn't really find it all that suspenseful.
Laura Elliot's Sleep Sister is about two sisters who have both suffered a traumatic experience when they were younger and how it shapes their lives in the future.
Beth, the older sister, runs away from home when she's a teenager, leaving behind her younger sister Sara. Years later, when Beth visits, her and Sara make a pact to never talk about this experience.
Time jump to 26 years later, we are introduced to Eva, who's birth is a mystery, and so she begins digging into her past to find out where she's from.
Now, I'm all for time jumps, I understand their necessity, but the first part (and there were 4), started off really strong and I was really getting into it, but then the time jump occurred. And that's fine, but, I had a hard time recovering that same urgency that I had to continue reading. It's not that Eva's story was boring, per se, but the writing, there was something about it that felt very old-school and the long-winded sentences just bored me after awhile.
The third part of the story, we are introduced to a whole new plot line, and it ties into the beginning, but nearing the end of the book at 70%, I kinda just wondered why the author waited this long into the book to introduce all these new ideas. And, honestly, at this point, I didn't really care that much.
With all the time jumps, it was also very hard to keep track of all of the characters, and some of the characters, I just didn't even see the point of them, it was almost just filler.
The last 20% of the book, the pace picks up again and more truths are revealed and Eva learns more about her past, and I wanted to finish the story, but it almost felt that by that point I was just finishing for the sake of finishing it.
It was an ok book, but it's being advertised as this psychological suspense story, and I didn't really find it all that suspenseful.