The SleepWalker- Blog Tour

 

Author: L C George

Publisher: Inkubator Books 

Publishing Date: 26th February 2023

Many thanks to ZooLoosBT and the publishing team for my digital copy of the book a spot in the tour

Blurb

Our dreams can be forgotten. But our nightmares will haunt us forever.

Sam Fulford is living a perfectly normal life, except for one little thing: a strange sleep condition that causes him to roam in the night and occasionally become violent.

So when Sam wakes one devastating morning to discover his wife dead beside him and his baby daughter missing, his whole world implodes. Did he accidentally kill his wife during a night time episode? If so, where is his baby?

Just as Sam begins to accept the possibility that he is guilty, he finds a photograph that makes him realise someone else may be involved, that he may be innocent and might yet find his missing daughter.

But there’s a complication. Sam has a dark secret that he just can't allow to surface. And it’s soon made clear to him that if he presses on with his quest to find out what happened that terrible night, his secret will be revealed to the world.

Leaving Sam wondering whether it might be better to confess to a crime he’s not even certain he committed. Faced with an unimaginable dilemma, Sam begins to wonder: would it be better for everyone if he was guilty?

My Thoughts

A gripping psychological thriller that was a page turner with a sinister twist. 

We get a dual timeline from past (6 months) to the present leading up to the event. The chapters POV switches from Sam, Tessa and Lindy. Lindy was Sams previous girlfriend and Tessa is his wife. 

Sam suffers from a condition called parasomnia, which is sleepwalking and find out that this all started after his fathers death and any stress can trigger them more. But we go on a journey with Sam as he wants to get to the bottom of what happened that day. We learn about Tessa not having any friends and struggling to gain or maintain friendships that is until she meets Bella. 

“The closest I seemed to get to friendship was shamelessly watching other women with envy as they chatted comfortably over a coffee. They made it seem effortless, making me wonder what I was doing so wrong for it to always remain so far out of my grasp.”

Excerpt From: L C George. “The Sleepwalker”. Apple Books.  

All the characters have been through some of challenges in the past which has shaped them to be who they are today but both for good and bad. We start to empathise them (some of them) and recognise the hardships during certain aspects of their lives. But some actions taken by the characters will leave you questioning alot. 

Although we do get some subtle hints throughout the book, It kept me guessing until the end and that is a sign of a good book! I would recommend it.