Book Review... Sleepless by Thomas Fahyl

Tuesday August 11, 2009

Sleepless
by Thomas Fahy
Release date August 11, 2009

Emma Montgomery has been having trouble sleeping. Whenever she closes her eyes, all she can see are horrible nightmares ... nightmares of gruesome murder. And she's not alone. All of the students in Dr. Beecher's secret society have been having terrible dreams and sleepwalking. Now, as their classmates start turning up dead, Emma and her friends race against the clock to keep themselves awake and find out what is causing them to kill in their sleep--before the next victim dies.

First off, the cover of this book has to be one of my top five all time favorites...it screams "READ ME!" I know this book will find a lot of action in my library just because of the awesome visual.

Told in third person narrative from Emma and her friend Jake's point of view, we find out that really weird things start to happen after a class trip to New Orleans.

Emma and her classmates went to New Orleans to help rebuild houses in one of the poorer communities there. After they witness a horrible tragedy which they promise to keep a secret, death seems to follow them home.

Mysterious deaths, lapses in memory and a creepy voo doo vibe are the only clues that Emma and Jake have to work with. It all seems to center around their teacher, Dr. Beecher. Will they be able to figure out who or what is killing their friends before it's too late?

If you like the premise of most teen horror flicks where a group of friends are dealing with some unknown menace, then this book is for you! Not a lot of depth here but the mystery itself will be enough to keep readers involved to the end.

A quick read at just over 200 pages, appropriate for 7th grade and up!

3.75 points