Review: Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I received a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.  This is due out on July 2, 2019.

Let me tell you I had no idea where this book was headed at the end. The ending threw me for a loop. I was not expecting. I expect this will be Riley Sager's next best-seller! I can see this becoming a movie soon.

This was not as fast-paced and page turning as his previous two books, but I still really enjoyed it. In the previous books I was never quite sure who dun it, in this one the suspense just wasn't there for me as I knew right away who the culprit was, just not what they were up to. The story follows Jules, a girl very down on her luck. She lost her boyfriend, her job, recently lost her parents, and she has found herself at rock bottom. When she finds herself interviewing for a job as an apartment-sitter at one of New York's most prestigious apartment buildings, it is almost too good to be true. Jules is hesitant to take the job because it just seems too easy for such a large sum of money. Left with no job prospects and nowhere to live, Jules takes the job and almost immediately discovers something strange going on at the famous Bartholomew. It is the setting of her favorite novel, but it has a sinister past and when Jules starts looking into some of the strange things that have happened there she is met with more than she bargained for. I won't say much more because it would spoil the plot.

The setting of the Bartholomew and its history was excellent. We don't normally get "world building" like that in real world settings. If you liked Sager's other books or thrillers in general, I recommend it.

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