A review by leafy_literature
Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book is FAST PACED. 321 pages holding events that only take place over the course of 48 hours. It was a solid read! I feel like it'd be best read in just one or two sittings. If you wait too long you forget what's going on - and there's A LOT of that, so you'll get lost behind. Characters were mostly well written - the church and cult parts were cringey. Priests are people, they don't just speak in biblical jargon. And a cult with HUNDREDS of followers, and no one tripped up and tipped off the authorities? Especially a crowd of rampant drug users, you'd think one would spill on a bender or something and the plan would be ruined. It just felt so unrealistic that it took me out of the story.