{"id":4631,"date":"2025-09-18T18:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:09:40","slug":"the-insomniacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4631","title":{"rendered":"The Insomniacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scotch, Allison Winn.\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Insomniacs<\/span><\/em>. April 14, 2026. 400 pages. Berkley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three insomniacs who first meet online and then at an all-night New York City diner have more in common than their tossing and turning. They\u2019re each living a life that\u2019s a lie. Famous baseball player Zeke believes he can only do one thing well\u2014pitch\u2014but isn\u2019t sure he wants to do it anymore. Quiet older gentleman Julian is hiding his stressful past as an FBI agent. Sybil, a protective mom to the group, wants more than the stay-at-home life she quit medicine for. And the biggest lie of them all is that of the waitress they befriend, Betty, who pretends her parents are dead and her past is unremarkable. Flashes to her younger years reveal that she grew up the child of an abusive cult leader, and how she found her way to New York is a gripping plot point that grows in prominence as her insomniac customers try to help her.<strong> You\u2019ll stay up late reading this cross between Maeve Binchy-esque strangers-becoming-family story and Tara Westover\u2019s <em>Educated<\/em>, and fall in love especially with the Zeke and Sybil dynamic.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotch, Allison Winn.\u00a0The\u00a0Insomniacs. April 14, 2026. 400 pages. Berkley. The three insomniacs who first meet online and then at an all-night New York City diner have more in common than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[93,50,51,53],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-friendship","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Insom-397x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Insom.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}