The Sleep Room by F.R. Tallis.

Okay so I'm slightly nervous to write my first book review because it's something new to me and I've never done anything like this before. But here it goes, hope you like.

So where to start with this book, first of all when I saw it the cover caught my eye almost immediately and once I'd read the blurb and got a bit of a hint that it was going to be a scary book I decided to go for it as it was something a little bit out of my comfort zone - seeing as I'm more into my young adult genre books, but it seemed good enough. So I started this and thought that it was going a little bit slow but a lot of books are like that and they build it up to something incredible, but let me give you a brief explanation of what this book seems to be about.

So it's about a psychiatrist called James Richardson who gets a job opportunity to work in a place called Wyldehope where it has mentally disturbed people who have had a rough upbringing and his partner/boss Hugh Maitland is he conjuring some sort of experiment in which he keeps six of his patients asleep in order to tell whether they are going to get better from it - or whether they are going to remain the same way. Throughout the whole book you see the emails that Maitland receives off other doctors who are asking him to help out their patients with his sleep room experiment, and you get to understand some of their background and why they were in the experiment in the first place. During his time there he becomes close to a woman called Jane and he starts having an intimate relationship with which suddenly comes to a halt when he finds out that she's had a previous relationship with his partner. It comes across as if it's going to be a ghost story from things such as when he's in bed with Jane he see's a silhouette of a woman who then suddenly disappears, another time is a patient who is not in the sleep room Micheal Chapman keeps repeating that someone is moving his bed whilst he sleeps - another is on Christmas day whilst he is sorting out the same patient he keeps thinking someone is moving his bed again and that he wants someone to get away, and again he see's another silhouette which once again disappears. Items go missing as well which makes him think that there is a poltergeist and yet there isn't. The patient Chapman ends up going insane and they have to place him in a straitjacket and place him in a cushioned room to which he escapes the jacket and gouges his own eyes out, and breaks his leg along with some hairline fractures that could only be from bring thrown around the room.

So it comes to a big thing where he's thinking that its haunted and then he gets a weird suspicion that something is going on with the sleeping patients when they all start dreaming at the same time - and that one day they won't wake up (as I should of mentioned, they wake them up each day to feed them, let them use the bathroom and then put them back to sleep), so he worries and has to get his partner down to the hospital to examine them and he doesn't see it as important and just keeps sending their dosages higher and more frequently. It then all ends in a pretty quick spiral, the hospital catches fire and his partner along with the sleeping patients all die in the fire, he goes back to his normal life and tries to forget about it... then the next minute he's waking up in a bed and it turns out he was a patient of the sleeping experiment, Maitland is still alive and Jane is his wife in reality. I don't know whether I liked the end or whether I liked how it turned out with the whole fire and stuff - but I don't know. I liked this book a little but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else.

So all in all, on a rating scale I would give this 3 stars out of 5.

Front cover of book.