📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Night Shift
AUTHOR: Alex Finlay @alexfinlayauthor
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2 + 🐰
Published: March 1, 2022
The Review 📚 The Night Shift
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- The synopsis for this book reminded me of other Final Girl books I have read recently. Thanks to @netgalley and @minotaur_books for the opportunity to read ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- This is a story of 2 different attacks in 2 different decades, where retail workers are killed. In each case there is a final girl. Do these incidents have anything in common? This story is told from multiple viewpoints. And the ending is intense and will keep you guessing.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- There were a few points in the middle that I felt could have been faster paced. But most of the book is a fantastic ride.
🚦 My face at the end: 😳
💭 4 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Blockbuster
- 2. Multiple POV
- 3. Shocking ending
- 4. Goodnight, pretty girl
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- 2 separate mass killings, each with a final girl. Are they connected? Can they prove who did it?
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
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📘 Summary 📚 The Night Shift
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in Linden, New Jersey, four teenage girls working the night shift are attacked. Only one survives. Police quickly identify a suspect who flees and is never seen again.
Fifteen years later, in the same town, four teenage employees working late at an ice cream store are attacked, and again only one makes it out alive.
Both surviving victims recall the killer speaking only a few final words… “Goodnight, pretty girl.”
In the aftermath, three lives intersect: the survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive her tragedy; the brother of the original suspect, who’s convinced the police have it wrong; and the FBI agent, who’s determined to solve both cases. On a collision course toward the truth, all three lives will forever be changed, and not everyone will make it out alive.
Twisty, poignant, and redemptive, The Night Shift is a story about the legacy of trauma and how the broken can come out on the other side, and it solidifies Alex Finlay as one of the new leading voices in the world of thrillers.