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Sleep No More

di Jayne Ann Krentz

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Fiction. Romance. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz returns with the first novel of the Lost Night Files, an exciting new romantic suspense trilogy about a night that changed three women foreverâ??but that none of them can remember. 
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Seven months ago, Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers were strangers, until their fateful stay at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire partially destroyed the hotel, but the women have no memory of their time there. Now close friends, the three women co-host a podcast called the Lost Night Files, where they investigate cold cases and hope to connect with others who may have had a similar experience to theirsâ??an experience that has somehow enhanced the psychic abilities already present in each woman.
 
After receiving a tip for their podcast, Pallas travels to the small college town of Carnelian, California, to explore an abandoned asylum. Shaken by the dark energy she feels in the building, she is rushing out when sheâ??s stopped by a dark figureâ??who turns out to be the women's mysterious tipster.
 
Ambrose Drake is certain heâ??s a witness to a murder, but without a body, everyone thinks heâ??s having delusions caused by extreme sleep deprivation. But Ambrose is positive something terrible happened at the Carnelian Sleep Institute the night he was there. Unable to find proof on his own, he approaches Pallas for help, only for her to realize that Ambrose, too, has a lost night that he canâ??t rememberâ??one that may be connected to Pallas. Pallas and Ambrose conduct their investigation using the podcast as a cover, and while the townsfolk are eager to share what they know, it turns out there are others who are not so happy about their questionsâ??and someone is willing to kill to keep… (altro)
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Sleep No More by Jayne Ann Krentz
The Lost Night Files series #1 of a trilogy. Paranormal psychic romantic suspense.
Seven months ago, Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rovers travel to Lucent Springs Hotel where they thought they were interviewing for different jobs. They walked into the hotel and that’s the last they remember before waking up on gurneys after an earthquake with the hotel on fire. The women are friends now as they each deal with different psychic gifts from the event and investigate what happened to them. Pallas travels back to the small town in California and runs into Ambrose Drake who believes he was a witness to a murder. But because he has had the same experience as the women, entering the hotel and waking up later missing time and memories. They work together trying to pin down events but there are others that don’t want the truth to come out.

A suspenseful story as usual by this author. A little psychic paranormal, a slow burn romance, and an adventure with unexpected turns as they find and expose the villain.
I liked the positive the women took away by starting a pod-cast to take back control. The various psychic gifts are where my first paranormal books fell and it’s still a favorite troupe. ( )
  Madison_Fairbanks | Jan 26, 2024 |
2.5 Not her best. But I'm a long-time reader so will likely pick up the next one and hope for better. ( )
  mmcrawford | Dec 5, 2023 |
This was the first book in Krentz's The Lost Night Files trilogy. Three women had an unusual experience one night. Strangers until their lost night, Pallas, Talia, and Amelia have banded together to support each other since the night seems to have enhanced their psychic gifts. They have begun a podcast which explores unusual things.

Ambrose Drake is a writer who also experienced a lost night which also enhanced his psychic gifts. But without support, he has been afraid that he is losing his mind. He knows that he has developed insomnia to keep him from sleepwalking himself into danger. When he spends that night at a clinic that specializes in sleep disorders and thinks that he witnessed a murder, he calls on the ladies of the Lost Night podcast to help him investigate.

Pallas answers his call which takes her to Carnelian, California, where the sleep clinic is and where there is also an old, abandoned asylum. Their first meeting doesn't seem propitious. She is frightened by him and by the atmosphere of the old asylum.

Where Ambrose has an enhanced ability to see auras and take fast action based on what he sees, Pallas uses a sort of dream state to do automatic drawings which show her the past in a cryptic sort of way. She also can feel emotions in places and has been getting clumsier as she tries to avoid hot spots only she can sense. She can also use her new paranormal senses to calm violent emotions of the person with the emotions is touching her. She is an interior decorator who uses her gift to fine tune spaces.

Both of them have lost relationships because of their new gifts, though Pallas's ex has followed her to Carnelian to propose a new business venture. Their relationship broke down when she scared him with her gift.

Pallas and Ambrose find more than they bargained for in Carnelian. A shady sleep clinic, a drug ring, a college teetering on the edge of disaster, and a few assorted murders should make it hard for anyone to find a new relationship, but Pallas and Ambrose to fall in love and find lots of answers.

Because this is the first book in a trilogy, there are still lots of answers to be found. Why is someone using illegal drugs and experiments to enhance psychic gifts? How were the people who were enhanced found and chosen for these experiments? We will need to wait for Talia and Amelia's stories to find the answers.

This was an engaging romantic suspense story with interesting characters. I liked the relationship between Ambrose and Pallas who are both determined to find answers. ( )
  kmartin802 | Oct 24, 2023 |
I stopped reading just beyond 50% through. This one was a somewhat strange experience.
Fundamentally there is nothing majorly wrong but there are so many smaller details that denied me any immersion into the story.
There are quite a few mistakes I would expect an editor or at least alpha readers to spot.
For example, in one place there is a really strange repetition in a scene where the main characters have parts of the same conversation twice which very much seems like this segment was moved around but the author forgot to remove parts of the original scene. There are a number of small continuity inconsistencies, likely due to improper rearrangement of scene segments which leads to characters suddenly being in different places or having their bodies positioned differently.

Sometimes the book tends to intentionally gloss over inconsistent details seemingly in the hopes of the reader not noticing. I think those are cases where building the scene from scratch and creating an order of events that would be fully consistent and believable would be a lot of work.

All these details were a bit off-putting and made it harder to stay focused and immersed but they weren't a dealbreaker on their own.

Furthermore, the pacing was also a bit too slow for my liking. I am probably on the more impatient side of readers but I can appreciate a well-established atmospheric setting. But that is not the case here. The book just spends too much time reiterating certain points over and over again without adding anything. It's not even fluff, it's just outright redundancy that bogs down the pacing.
I think I might punch (not really) the next person that tells me "Everyone wants to be on a podcast nowadays".

One small pet peeve of mine I want to mention is the cutting away from a scene right in the middle of it to a new, unrelated one-shot pov for some reason. I see this quite a lot in books and I just don't understand the point of it. I think this is one of those things that people do just because they see other people doing it. It's reminiscent of a TV commercial right in the middle of a tense confrontation or a cliffhanger at the end of the episode to get you to tune in next week or something. But this is a BOOK god damn it! I am already reading it! You don't need to do this!

What ultimately killed it for me was something else though. At some point, someone is murdered and gets an injection from behind through the upper shoulder into the neck. (This is described quite specifically for no apparent reason.) A main character finds the body and the immediate conclusion is that the murder scene was set up to suggest a drug overdose and that the police couldn't possibly figure out that it was a murder. An injection from behind into the shoulder? ...Injection bruising anyone? This is actually something that gets overtly glossed over multiple times. A lot of people get invisible involuntary injections throughout the story. The author even acknowledges this at some point but never provides any kind of explanation. And it happens in all kinds of scenarios with still living as well as dead people in different scenarios and different cities. There just aren't enough commonalities between all these different incidents that could explain all these different cases. It just comes across as lazy. Need to knock out someone? Injection! Need to kill someone? Injection! Need to fake a suicide/overdose? Injection! Need to abduct someone? Injection! Bad weather? Injection!
And this goes hand in hand with a big pile of plot conveniences which I don't have the patience to go into now as well.

Something else strange went on in this book too.
One of the main characters is an author and here and there he lets slip a few details about his job and how things work with his editor and the publisher etc. And in this context, he mentions certain kinds of corrections and criticisms of his editor many of which fit uncannily perfectly with my own criticism of this book. It's almost like the author added the criticism of her own editor into the book instead of taking it to heart and actually addressing the points.
This is pure conjecture of course but I have seen this quite a few times in other books in a much more obvious fashion; authors acknowledging the flaws in their own writing inside the book itself in this semi-fourth-wall-breaking way and it seems a bit like this book does the same thing in a much more subtle way.
But as I have pointed out before in other reviews, while acknowledging your own flaws can be quite powerful in many situations, it is just annoying in books. If you know there is a flaw in your book and you decide to not fix it for whatever reason, at least don't explicitly draw the reader's attention to it.

So in conclusion, this seems like it needs at least one more pass by the author and another thorough edit as well. But there is an interesting story underneath this pile of unfinished writing.
But in this state, it just wasn't for me. Maybe I am too pedantic but these kinds of problems completely kill my enjoyment of a book like this. Suspense and mystery just don't go along well with bullshit.
In short, good recipe and ingredients, but half-baked. ( )
  omission | Oct 19, 2023 |
Seven months ago Pallas Llewellyn was one woman who stayed in Lucent Springs Hotel and woke up with stronger abilities and from that they started a podcast about cold cases. Also connecting with other people who have missing time. Ambrose Drake is sleep deprived and he keeps sleepwalking when he does sleep, it's messing his life up and he also has missing time and somehow after that time his abilities have improved.
This seems to fit into her ongoing series that is bringing all her various worlds together and working with finding out how some of the characters get their abilities. There was a cameo from Burning Cove in the story with one of the buildings possibly becoming a subject of another story.
There wasn't as much of a build-up of a relationship as I prefer but it kept me very engaged. ( )
  wyvernfriend | Jul 17, 2023 |
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Fiction. Romance. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz returns with the first novel of the Lost Night Files, an exciting new romantic suspense trilogy about a night that changed three women foreverâ??but that none of them can remember. 

Seven months ago, Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers were strangers, until their fateful stay at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire partially destroyed the hotel, but the women have no memory of their time there. Now close friends, the three women co-host a podcast called the Lost Night Files, where they investigate cold cases and hope to connect with others who may have had a similar experience to theirsâ??an experience that has somehow enhanced the psychic abilities already present in each woman.
 
After receiving a tip for their podcast, Pallas travels to the small college town of Carnelian, California, to explore an abandoned asylum. Shaken by the dark energy she feels in the building, she is rushing out when sheâ??s stopped by a dark figureâ??who turns out to be the women's mysterious tipster.
 
Ambrose Drake is certain heâ??s a witness to a murder, but without a body, everyone thinks heâ??s having delusions caused by extreme sleep deprivation. But Ambrose is positive something terrible happened at the Carnelian Sleep Institute the night he was there. Unable to find proof on his own, he approaches Pallas for help, only for her to realize that Ambrose, too, has a lost night that he canâ??t rememberâ??one that may be connected to Pallas. Pallas and Ambrose conduct their investigation using the podcast as a cover, and while the townsfolk are eager to share what they know, it turns out there are others who are not so happy about their questionsâ??and someone is willing to kill to keep

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