I have read other books written by this author that I enjoyed so I was happy to read this one. The premise is an interesting one, working alone overnight in a storage facility.

The book begins engaging enough and I was curious to see the way the plot would unfold. The main character made questionable decisions - which is typical of this genre. But in this case, I found that distracting from the story. I rolled my eyes many times reading this wondering why she would make the choices she made.

This story was not my favorite unfortunately.

Nina works a 12-hour night shift at Storage Queen which is a 24-hour storage warehouse. This gives her quiet time to study for her medical degree. Tonight she is a few minutes late as she and her boyfriend, Dom, had had an argument. He wants to go to Thailand for some months with a friend and wants her to put her studies aside for that time and go with him. But she has worked so hard for so long and she doesn’t want to set it aside. Thus, they broke up.

But when a client shows up and doesn’t follow the rules, she becomes suspicious and finds that she is right in that there is something very bad going on. That’s when her night turns into twelve hours of pure terror.

This was a heart-stopping book that kept me glued to the story without a break. There is evil, murder, pain and pure terror here that had me gasping for breath. The fact that Nina is a diabetic plays well into the story and leaves the reader with a bit of an education on what it is like to be a diabetic. Whew!! Enjoy

Copy provided by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Very suspenseful. I did not know how it was going to end. Usually, I can guess at what the ending will be but this one not so much. I really liked the way this book played out. It was different from what I'm used to. I had no idea where the story was going to end up. Great characters.

Unfortunately a huge miss for me. This was wildly repetitive and while the concept was very interesting - being trapped in a storage unit and documenting it hour by hour, the execution just wasn’t it.

Thank you to Netgalley and Boldwood Books for the eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was a good story, full of suspense and plenty to keep the reader interested, and I liked the mix of characters.
That said, I did feel it was a long night shift, and just a little far-fetched.

Fast pace, well written and the level of detail perfectly told allows you to envision what the main character is experiencing.

Good story, Good author.

Wow! What an exciting read! The amount of tension and suspense in The Night Shift is superb! Nina works the night shift at the front desk of a 24 hour local storage warehouse. Most of the time, Nina is alone except for the odd renters who visit their units at all hours. Why do they come to their storage spaces at these times and what do they keep there? Nina is suspicious of some of them. She also hears weird noises. But is she afraid and paranoid because she is by herself at night in the warehouse or is somebody messing with her? What starts as a normal low key evening turns into a scary, heart-pounding ordeal. There are so many twists with potential danger around every corner. I could not put this down. 4.5 stars! Kudos to Gemma Rogers for a fantastic locked door thriller. And thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for the digital ARC.

This book is a great example of suspense done right!

Nina is working the night shift in a 24 hour storage facility. Boring and quiet, right? But not this night! The book takes place over just 12 hours of the most harrowing ordeal you never hope to experience. I think it added to the realism that the character was based on the author's own daughter's type 1 diabetes, so I felt that the scenes were authentic and not just created for dramatic effect.

While making her nightly rounds, Nina notices something she wasn't meant to see - and someone saw knows it! What follows is a game of cat and mouse that is so tense, I couldn't stop at the end of each chapter. I suspended disbelief because, even with Nina's ingenuity, props just appeared at convenient times, but this is fiction, right? I like my books fast-paced, with mystery/terror/suspense that build tension as they go, and Rogers definitely delivered that with The Night Shift!

Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books (Bold Book Club) for an advance reader's copy!

The Night Shift
by Gemma Rogers
Pub Date: Mar 06 2025

The Night Shift takes place over the span of the 12-hour shift of Nina, who is currently attending medical school, and uses her night shift at the 24-hour storage facility to catch up on homework. She spends her shift making rounds, looking at the security cameras, and studying. Her shifts are usually very quiet, but tonight's shift isn't. Nina finds herself locked in the building with no way out, no way to contact her supervisor, there is a male in the building who is threatening and dangerous. Nina is fighting for her life while playing a game of cat and mouse.

The story was full of suspense, kept me turning the pages until the very last page! Author, Gemma Rogers crafts a suspenseful thriller which I highly recommend.

Many thanks to #TheNightShift #NetGalley and #BoldwoodBooks for providing me with this 5 star E-ARC!

There was SO much I loved about The Night Shift. I really appreciated having a diabetic main character, as a diabetic myself. The fact that Gemma Rogers took her daughter’s diagnosis and life altering ailment, researched and became knowledgeable enough to write a believable and relatable character blew me away. Thank you!

This book was a rollercoaster that I didn’t want off of. It reminded me of the movie Panic Room. Being trapped in a building with your captor and trying to save yourself from your own highs and lows of blood sugar. It was intense and captivating from cover to cover.

Highly recommend and I’m looking forward to more novels from Gemma!

The Night Shift by Gemma Rogers was and excellent fast paced book, that had me sitting on the edge of my seat. I could not get enough of it.

How can one 12-hour night shift be so deadly?

Nina has just started her new job working at the local 24 hour storage facility, this is to fund her studies at the medical school as she wants to be a doctor. On her night shift, she usually does her rounds of the unit, looks at the security camera's, and helps people if they need assistance with their lock up. When she has done this she opens her medical books and studies throughout the night. So, this shift is going to be no different!

Nina spot's something on her shift and this everything changes. . . . . . . . . her shift takes a different and dangerous turn.

There's a dangerous man at the storage facility who becomes a serious threat to Nina, especially as he takes her phone, she needs her phone as it her diabetic app on it to monitor her diabetes. She knows her glucose is becoming low but he has started to hunt her. . . . . .

Why has he started to hunt her?

She is only doing her job! But she is all alone in this storage unit and it is not small storage unit!

Will she survive her night shift?

WoW This book becomes fast paced and full of great twists and turns which will have you turning the pages over quickly to find out what happens next. I loved it and The Night Shift was one of the best books I have read this year.

Great Holiday read.

Wow, that was intense! The story started a bit slow, but once it started you better hang on. I've always enjoyed being a night shift worker, but this book has me second guessing that. Very well written, and really fast paced action made you feel like you were right in the story. My heart was definitely racing for a while wondering what could possibly happen next. Very much enjoyed this story and would recommend for anyone looking for a thriller.

The book is about a college student who works in a storage unit on the night shift. She has shady characters who come to drop things off but then encounters that they are dangerous. It takes the reader through the entire night hour by hour and how she comes to be a victim as well as her friend who went to check on her.. it’s drawn out but the ending was good.

This book would have been a book that I would have picked for when I am on a plane ride. It reads very quickly and has some twists and turns. It takes place primarily in one location, which I liked. It allows the reader to focus on other areas of the writing. The main character felt very human to me because she got hurt and was scarred at what was happening. There were moments when I was yelling that she needed to do this or that. However, I could feel the energy as if she was reacting how an actual person in her situation would act. I did not see the twist about the bad guy being related to her boss and then loop in that he was the same person going on the trip with her ex-boyfriends. Who wanted her to go on the same trip with him. Things do just happen in a big circle.

The ending made me want to know more about how things happened after this incident. I know that there is a little epilogue that ties it up nicely. However, I am a person who always wants more.

How can one 12-hour night shift be so deadly? Oh, let me count the ways…

From the moment I picked up The Night Shift, I was hooked. The premise alone—an overnight shift at a storage facility, an eerie setting, and a stranger dragging in a suitcase—sent my thriller-loving heart into overdrive. Gemma Rogers doesn’t just set the scene; she plunges you into it, immersing you in the dimly lit corridors, the sterile scent of metal storage units, and the oppressive silence that hums with something sinister just beneath the surface.

Nina thought she had found the perfect job—one that paid well, offered solitude, and allowed her to study in peace while the rest of the world lay curled up in their cozy beds. But when a man steps through the door with that ominous suitcase, her uneventful night turns into a nightmare. And let me tell you, once the tension kicks in, it does not let up.

What I loved about this book was the pacing—fast, relentless, and utterly nerve-wracking. Rogers has a way of making the mundane feel menacing. The hum of the security monitors, the flickering fluorescent lights, the creak of a door that shouldn’t be open—everything is heightened, pulling you deeper into Nina’s fear. I could feel her unease, her desperate attempts to rationalize the situation, and ultimately, her terror as things spiraled out of control.

And the twists? Oh, they’re good. Just when I thought I had things figured out, Rogers threw in a curveball that had me flipping back through pages, questioning everything.

If you love atmospheric thrillers that make your pulse race and your mind spin, The Night Shift is a must-read. It’s the kind of book that will have you side-eyeing every late-night shift worker you meet, wondering what secrets lurk behind their tired eyes.

Final verdict: Read it with the lights on—and maybe rethink that quiet, flexible night job.

#TheNightShift #NetGalley #BoldwoodBooks

Zero stars for this one.
This is the dumbest, most annoying book I've read in a long time. Like outlandishly improbable plotting, zero-to-none research, characters that are too stupid to find their own butts in the dark as well as too boring/one-dimensional to hold your interest, the inescapable Young Ditzy Female No Working Braincell But Lotsa Feels first-person singular narration typical for this kind of substandard dreck, tons of repetition (if I have to see the word "diabetic" *one more time*...), liberal helpings of Idiot Plot, lacklustre editing (not that I can blame the poor sod that had to edit this garbage), and prose that reads like something a fifteen-year-old dreamed up? Step right up! You can literally feel your neurons withering while plodding through this boring, convoluted, "twist"-infested mess.

You can tell the quality of the plotting by the fact that the author has to dedicate a big chunk of the final chapter to a tacked-on explanation of the actions and motivations of the bad guy/s -- "and when they did this, they found out that, and they had to come up with X, and all the while Y, and this is because that, and then that happened on top of it", and yes, it's just as asinine as it sounds. A well-executed novel, even/especially a genre one, should be like a big, intricate, elegant machine where everything works together seamlessly to create something bigger than its parts. This is like some cheap capsule toy that wobbles around for a bit before the gears come loose and the wheels fall off while playing crazy annoying music.

My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC, but this is just too awful to take seriously. Ugh, ugh, ugh. Will definitely stay away from this author in the future.

Thank you NetGalley and Boldwood Books for allowing me to read this e-arc.This was a fast paced thriller with several brief POVs.It has some slow sections but definitely had some thrilling aspects.

My thanks to Boldwood Books and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘The Night Shift’ written by Gemma Rogers in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Nina wants to be a doctor to help others with diabetes and working the night shift at the Storage Queen pays well and helps fund her university degree. She’s just taken over from her manager Stacey when a man arrives dragging a heavy suitcase. Nina’s instincts tell her that something’s wrong but she couldn’t have guessed what was going to happen.

‘The Night Shift’ is a cat-and-mouse thriller set over a twelve-hour period with Nina convinced that she won’t get out of Storage Queen’s warehouse in one piece. Although it has exciting spells when I‘ve not been able to read fast enough I’ve got frustrated by some of Nina’s actions, and didn’t think it was as good as the previous books I’ve read by Gemma Rogers. The details I learnt about diabetes were informative and the characters were well- described but although I was cheering Nina on as she fought back, the whole story was so far-fetched especially the length of time taken for emergency help to arrive. Nevertheless, it’s a decent read with suspense and twists, and I recommend it for the short chapters that kept me involved.

The Night Shift is set over a 12 hour period, when Nina works at a 24 hour storage unit in a mindnumpingly boring job, which usually allows her to study and helps pay for her medical degree, until a man drags in a suitcase and his strange behaviour alerts Nina's suspicion.

A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, lasting the entire 12 hours!

I really enjoy Gemma's writing, although I felt the plot was too one dimensional in this book and the twists felt forced. Nina was really frustrating as she bypassed so many opportunities to defend herself or escape, which felt like it was solely so the story could continue.

The feeling of being trapped and alone was well written and I could feel Nina's anxiety at times, which helped me connect better with the story through the repetitive scenes of Nina's missed opportunities!

3 ⭐️ Thanks to Netgalley, Gemma Rogers and Boldwood for an ARC in return for an honest review.

Not so much as a roller coaster of a story , but an up and down stairs one - you will understand when you read it !! Probably everything that might go wrong does so on this nightshift for Nina with plenty of twists and turns throughout to keep the reader guessing who is lying to whom and why !! Lots of action too and the author also highlights what can go wrong with being a diabetic (esp type 1) when you don't do what you need to do.

Thanks to Netgalley/Boldwood for the ARC to review