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Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

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karleywestra's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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5.0

So much suspense! Loved it.

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1.0

Listen, this was a fast easy read. I was interested and I rarely give one stars because I usually DNF them, but what complete utter trash.

“I think every family has at least one big tragedy.”
He’s wrong there.
Mine has two.——uhh, no he said “at least”. There was a lot of bad dialogue.

Solving the mystery was way too easy for her. Things just fell into her lap.

I get it. These people are desperate, loners, but it’s rare to have somebody not connected to ANYBODY. Nobody’s family caught on to this?

How did these rich people find out about this place? People just go around advertising this? Nobody who heard about it mentioned it to the cops? Surely somebody with sway has a heart.

Jules saves Rufus, and Marianne was just cool with taking her liver without consent. Seriously, everybody is a psychopath in this building?

We’re expected to believe that Jules is a match for 3 people in the building that she knows personally that all happened to need different organs.

You also expect me to believe that an old lady who could barely make it down the stairs is out of bed a few days after a kidney transplant. I doubt she’d even live. And surely they don’t have a 100% success rate. They just explain away every one of these as natural causes?

This is just the most implausible piece of TRASH. I can let some things slide in a book especially in trillers. Things can be implausible, but this just didn’t make any sense. It was just too far out to work.

What did her sister have to do with anything???!!!

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5.0

5/5 stars

I love that feeling when you go into a book not really expecting much out of it and it just completely BLOWS YOU AWAY. Thrillers are hard to review without getting spoilery so I'm just gonna list some things I loved about this:

⇾ A smart and logical main character, opposed to the usual clueless dummy we have to suffer through in a lot of thrillers

⇾ A haunting and ominous setting. SERIOUSLY! The Bartholomew, an exclusive high class apartment building located in the Upper West Side in New York (very big on the privacy of its residents and known to house rich and famous people). Add to the eeriness with all the rules like no guests allowed, spend every night in your apartment, don't speak to the residents unless spoken to, no posting pictures of inside the apartments, and no blabbing about the goings on at the Bartholomew to anyone. Follow all the rules and be paid a 1,000 dollars a week cash. SUPER SHADYY

⇾ The pacing. Riley Sager gives us the perfect amount of information at the perfect times. It keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time just eager to know what the hell is going on.

⇾ The thrill and suspense are high. My heart was racing through some scenes, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I was also reading this at night time so this even spooked me a little bit. I had to turn on all the lights in my house.

In my experience reading Riley Sager's works in order, I can confidently say that each book gets better and better. It's interesting to see the writing improvement with every new book. I hope Home Before Dark follows that trend. After reading this, I'm anticipating it more than ever.

My ratings of Riley Sager's previous books:
⇾ Final Girls (2017): 1 star
⇾ The Last Time I Lied (2018): 4 stars