Un compositor que ha perdido la inspiración.
Una casa aislada en una playa irlandesa.
Una noche de tormenta que puede cambiarlo todo.
Peter Harper es un prestigioso compositor de bandas sonoras que, tras un traumático divorcio, se refugia en un rincón perdido de la costa de Irlanda para recuperar la inspiración. La casa de Tremore Beach, aislada en una enorme y solitaria playa, parece el lugar indicado para lograrlo. Todo parece perfecto... hasta que llega la noche de la gran tormenta.

Peter Harper is a world-renowned composer. He's taking some time to clear the cobwebs after a recent divorce and dry spell in creativity and he's spending the summer on the Irish coast. Tremore Beach is beautiful and isolated. His neighbours are good people. He's involved with a wonderful woman. And his kids are coming to visit. But after he's struck by lightning one stormy night, Peter starts getting wicked headaches and having strange dreams; dreams that are so real Peter doesn't know where they end and reality begins. But he soon figures out that these dreams may be warnings of things to come.

I liked the setting. I liked the concept - a man struck by lightning begins having vivid dreams about his loved ones being hurt by strangers. But then the other part of the story, the one that wraps everything up, just didn't do it for me. It left me disappointed. ( )

The Last Night at Tremore Beach – A Fantastic Debut

Mikel Santiago has written a fantastic debut and The Last Night at Tremore Beach, is a thriller, that breaks exciting ground and moves away from usual thrillers. You will feel the fear of the major character as you follow him on his personal journey of hell, while there is plenty of personal guilt to go around it is as if the parish priest has sprinkled holy water all over the place.

Peter Harper is a gifted, Bafta winning musician whose personal life is in melt down and that has created trouble for his career, and he is simply not creating any music. He moves to a rented cottage on the northwest coast of Ireland and the very remote Tremore Beach. His nearest neighbours are a retired American couple, Leo and Marie Kogan, who take him under their wing. He is sure there is something strange about the couple but he cannot put his finger on it.

One night, on his way home from a dinner at Leo and Marie’s, Peter is struck by a lightning bolt, and has the scar to prove it. He begins to experience nightmares, but these are not ordinary nightmares, but lucid and terrifying. Things are made even worse when his two children are visiting and he has a nightmare which scares both children and shakes Peter the core.

He thinks back to something his father told him when they were in Dublin, that he must have a sixth sight rather like his mother. These drove her and scared her then as she could predict things that happened, and Peter felt that his dreams were rather the same. He is worried that his nightmares will come true out on the beach and that it will be a bloody and terrifying end for him, his children and anyone else that might be at the house.

We see Peter suffering and you feel his fear especially for his children, and he is pensive and cannot rest properly, even though he has sought help. He knows something is going to happened and he really wants to make sure he can stop it, but he is not sure he can.

This is a fantastic debut thriller in which you are challenged to face down your fears, out in a remote cottage that faces some very harsh weather. This really is an atmospheric and haunting thriller which is evocative and dark at the same time. This is an intense and pleasurable read. ( )

1.75 ( )