The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz [Review]

The Night Island (The Lost Night Files #2) by Jayne Ann Krentz
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: March 17, 2024

The Lost Night Files
1. Sleep No More
2. The Night Island - Kindle

Jayne Ann Krentz
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night none of them can remember, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago—an experience that amplified innate psychic abilities in each of them. The women suspect they were test subjects years earlier, and that there are more people like them—all they have to do is find the list of others who took that same test. When Talia follows up on a lead from Phoebe, a fan of the trio’s podcast, she discovers that the informant has vanished.

Talia isn’t the only one looking for Phoebe, however. Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man who is chasing the same list that Talia is after, also shows up at the meeting place. It’s clear he has his own agenda, and they are instantly suspicious of each other. But when a killer begins to stalk them, they realize they have to join forces to find Phoebe and the list.

The rocky investigation leads Talia and Luke to a rustic, remote retreat on Night Island in the Pacific Northwest, where the Unplugged Experience promises to rejuvenate guests. Upon their arrival, Talia and Luke discover they are quite literally cut off from the outside world when none of their high-tech devices work on the island. It soon becomes clear that Phoebe is not the first person to disappear into the strange gardens that surround the Unplugged Experience retreat. And then the first mysterious death occurs. . . .

Thoughts on The Night Island: We're back with the Lost Night podcast crew and things are complicated. As you might expect given they and the people they come across have been enhanced without consent and are struggling to come to terms with how their world has changed.

This time around we follow Talia who teams up with Luke when their paths cross while on the search for someone who might have answers. Talia's new ability is a little unnerving, but it's possible Luke's is even more unnerving. I mean, Talia can find dead bodies, but Luke has been enhanced to possibly be an assassin. Seeing as how they're figuring out things on their own, Luke is understandably wary of the things he's now able to do.

A little wariness doesn't stop the two of them from working together, though. An unexpected find that leads to a trip to the Night Island, a couple of unsettling encounters with the various individuals who populate and are on retreat there, and the first dead body are just the start of things. It isn't long before Talia and Luke are trekking through a nightmare garden, sparking off each other in a BIG way, and doing everything they can to make it off the island alive.

The good news? They do find a few answers to the questions about what happened to them months ago. They also find one another, which is very good. The bad news? Some of those answers spark more questions. Which means there's more to experience with the LNF crew! YESSSS!