A book by Gemma Rogers is always an event that keeps me awake late in the night, and The Night Shift is no different. It offers a highly emotional and suspenseful journey, in a cat-and-mouse kind of game that it´s hard to put down.
Nina is working at a self-storage to cover the fees for her studies. It is an easy quiet job, as she is able to do some university work while at her shift. But this Friday is different, as soon as a mysterious man with a big suitcase entered the premises of the Storage Queen. An encounter that may change her life for ever. An unexpected plot which may keep the reader in a permanent state of wonder what will follow next and if this next may be the last.
Survival is the key-word of this locked room thriller. The situation is presented from different perspectives allowing the story to be magnified on different angles. The personal details of the characters, like for instance Nina´s medical condition, may add some extra suspense to a story which is already a race against time.
Rogers is no stranger of turning an average everyday context into a source of nerve racking suspense, and The Night Shift is an example in this respect. I may reckon that somehow in the middle of the novel I felt that the pace slowed down a little bit, after a very dramatic start, but the suspense re-amplifies towards the end.
Rating: 3.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
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