Genre: Suspense / Mystery
Book Type: Physical
Author: Alex Finlay
Narrator: Brittany Pressley, Cady McClain, Devon Hales and Gary Tiedemann
Pages / Length: 320 pages / 8 hours and 34 minutes
Publisher: Minotaur Books (March 1, 2022) /
Book Description:
“The night was expected to bring tragedy.” So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years.
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 New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.
Fifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive.
In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive the horrors of her tragedy; the brother of the fugitive accused, who’s convinced the police have the wrong suspect; and FBI agent Sarah Keller who must delve into the secrets of both nights―stirring up memories of teen love and lies―to uncover the truth about murders on the night shift.
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 Finlay as one of the new leading voices in the world of thrillers.
Thoughts: I loved this book and the pace of it. While I had it figured out, watching it unfold and yelling at the characters is a personal favorite of mine. This started out strong and I thought it did a good job of bringing the past to the present. It was a great read!!!
Favorite Quotes:
🎬 He's so tired of the drug war, which is really just a war on broken people, many who've suffered childhood trauma. Locking them up does nothing. Plenty of people in the system want to help. But his clients are like an army from a zombie movie. Help one, and a hundred more appear. (page 112)
🎬 She pulls one of the hardcovers from the shelf: A Farewell to Arms. A book her father gave her after Blockbuster. She riffles through the pages and stops at the bookmark [...] She finds the passage her father highlighted in yellow: The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. (page 148)
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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