I truly enjoyed being on the ride with both of them. It was so fascinating to follow both of their journeys and the ways they go about solving the mysteries, which becomes much bigger than either expected. In the dual timeline format, both Viv and Carly are working to solve mysteries-and have more in common than just being related. It’s always interesting to see how the past relates to the present. You typically see those in more traditional historical fiction. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.

Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. I’m so glad that I got beyond my worry about being scared because this book is fantastic! Yes, it’s creepy but it’s all done in such an intriguing way that you won’t want put this one down. However, the synopsis was so compelling, and I liked that it also had a dual setting of the ’80s and current times, which is why I added it to my must-read book clubs list. When I read that The Sun Down Motel is a ghost story, I definitely paused. I like Halloween enough but if involves haunted houses, I’m out. I don’t see horror movies-I can’t even handle the trailers. So let me really emphasize the fact that I’m a scaredy-cat.

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James