Lock Every Door

I'm having a hard time coming up with a star rating. I did enjoy some parts of the book, but for most parts it did feel kind of boring. I HATED the main character, she's annoying as hell and she was so dense for 99% of the book. HOW DID SHE SOLVE THE CASE when she was literally the girl that didn't get anything at first xD?! But hey, I did like the suspense at first, but I felt the twist coming from miles away which made me give the book one less star. :')

Overall, I did enjoy the first part, but got bored towards the end.

The last 30% of this book are pretty good the first 70% are pretty slow. The characters aren't super interesting or endearing even though they should be.

This book could have had a eat the rich kind of morale but at the end it just went for the rich people don't entirely get away with it and the heroine becomes a celebrity victim who goes to work for a non-profit ending which was kind of a let down in this day and age.

This is the third book of Riley Sager's that I have read and all it's done is encourage me to keep reading more. This one had me hooked from the first page.

I was constantly trying to question whether characters we came across with could be trusted and that's something I have noticed is a theme that happens in Sager's books and I love that.

This wasn't like anything that I hadn't read in the past and it's definitely something that I would read again in the future. There's something so captivating about this book.

What felt like a very clear Rosemarys Baby rip off (even in the dedication) quickly turned into something familiar but also engaging. The story moved flawlessly and quickly. With a satisfying ending and epilogue.

There are some loose ends with characters that I wish were more tied up but that's my only complaint. Another engrossing read from Riley Sager.

Started listening to this one on a ride up to Buffalo with my fiancée. There’s nothing like a long drive and a new book.

I will preface another Sager review by saying that I absolutely loved Home Before Dark. It creeped me out while reading alone at night, and that’s all it took. He’s been an auto-buy BOTM choice for me since.

This book—aside from my selecting the wrong title and updating it multiple times—doesn’t really have that many locked doors. For someone so scared, she locks the apartment door…then sleeps on the couch when she could have presumably slept in the bedroom…and also locked that door. Maybe locked the bedroom door, then slept in the tub? Locking the bathroom door too?

Joking aside, this one felt pretty meh right up until the climax for me. It wasn’t that I wasn’t enjoying it, it just felt very basic for the majority of it. Sager has a way of shaking things up though, and I did find the ending to be both a good set of twists, and satisfying.

Personally a 4/5* for me. My third Sager read.

This book had me going all over the place! I was constantly guessing where the story was leading and that was enjoyable in and of itself. I Was into the original route it was taking and the one I thought, but where it ended up going was great too. Although I thought the original twist would've been more interesting and darker, I can't complain. I still very much enjoyed the turn it took. I was reading nonstop because I had to know what was going to happen!

I really couldn't love this book all that much. Somehow the story itself felt like some half-baked urban legend you could read on Facebook, shared by people who don't think stuff through before deciding it's absolutely true. To explain why I think that, I will hide a lot of this review behind a spoiler tag. I am sure that makes my review a lot less valuable to people who have not read this yet, but I think that's absolutely necessary to really explain why I gave it such a low rating.
Before that, some non-spoiler things, though.

One of the big, defining characteristics of the protagonist, Jules is the fact she is alone. She has nobody and she kind has to rely on only herself. That's a fact, she is used to it and still, somehow relationships with his new neighbours and even some characters outside the building just come to her. She has very personal conversations with people about traumatic events and their big life problems without knowing each other.
I find it unrealistic. Sure, some people in some situations can overshare. Happens. But to have that happen so many times with so many different people just feels like kind of lazy storytelling. The story plays out in a few days and I guess that was the author's self-imposed hardship, because to me it made a lot of conversations so damn unrealistic.

But now, for the mystery and why it just doesn't work for me .
Rich people have this big apartment building where they go when sick. Unsuspecting poor people are employed to occupy empty units, but in reality their organs are stolen to give to the sick, rich people. This is a big, posh operation, right? Well, why would they only have a handful of "donors" at a time? Why would they only use a few organs? If I was running such a thing, I would find a fuckton of rich people and use up every single organ of every single "donor". Dylan's heart was given away... but not the rest? Why? They are willing to do this, but they also throw away two kidneys, a liver, corneas, pancreas, lungs, a whole lot of things that can earn good money for the operators. Why would it matter if Jules cut her throat? They have a whole hospital to keep her organs until they can quickly plop them into the people already lined up. Why do the rich people have to live in the building? It's not like they can't just go to some private luxury property to discretely heal. How do they know if someone will be a good donor? Poor people are generally not super up on their regular health checkups (hell, even non-poor people aren't, because humans) and I'm pretty sure organ donors need a bit more than your yearly "how are we feeling?" type stuff. What if I move in and it turns out I have a hidden health condition or I don't match any of the people there?

All in all, I feel the story wasn't nearly as smart and well-thought-out as it tried to be and that kind of killed it for me. Especially because not even the pressure was that much. It just wasn't scary and I don't feel the mood was as built up as it should have been. Really, I just didn't like this one very much. Easy read, though, so there is that, but I would not bring this up as a recommendation.

Riley Sager books are just like a comforting hug for me, one of my favorite authors of all time! I'm slowly but surely making my way through his entire collection of books he has published thus far.

This book was a fun ride, slightly reminiscent of the movie fractured of you've ever seen it ;)

(Gave that movie 5 stars on Letterboxd btw, please watch it if you haven't seen it, PLEASE i beg, it's so good.)

[b:Lock Every Door 41837243 Lock Every Door Riley Sager https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1540938359l/41837243.SY75.jpg 65308942] If something seems too good to be true....I am constantly behind the curve ball with things. I know this book came out in July of this year. I didn't get my hands on it until August and that was only because I ran across it on Scribed. I have to my eyes open for the next book by Riley Sager books. Jules has had a string of bad luck, starting with getting laid off from her job, followed by discovering her live-in boyfriend banging another woman. She ends up near penniless, sleeping on her BFF's sofa until she finds a classified ad for an apartment sitter. $12,000 to occupy a luxury apartment in the Bartholomew—a New York high society landmark—for three months. It sounds too good to be true, especially given the building is the fairy-tale setting of a novel that bound Jules and her sister as teens. The job comes with severe rules. No visitors allowed, no social media, no conversation with the rich and famous residents. She must leave the apartment in the condition she found it, and stay in the apartment every night. Jules had my sympathy throughout the book, and I felt she was a worthy protagonist. She had a lot of grief in her early background and was in an unenviable state as the well-plotted story begins. She gets comfortable and soon starts to make friends with another apartment sitter, Ingrid. Jules learns that the Bartholomew has a dark, creepy and scandalous history and reputation and that Ingrid is becoming unnerved staying there, but like Jules needs the money. When Ingrid disappears without warning in the middle of the night, Jules becomes suspicious and frightened that her surroundings hold threatening and eerie secrets. I won't give up too much more information on the story because I want you all to pick it up and give it a read for yourself. I loved that listening to it added so much more of a spooky factor for me. Well rounded thriller solid 4 stars.

I chose this book as one of my BOTM selections and I borrowed the audiobook from my library with Libby. The audiobook was narrated well. The book was very entertaining and the ending is so shocking! I never expected half of it. Perhaps that is due to how far-fetched it was - in a good way. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys themselves a good thriller or horror.

Woah, I am on a roll reading one terrific thriller after another! I thought I couldn't love another of Riley Sager's books more than I loved Home Before Dark but I gotta say, I think I loved this one a bit more. Everything about this novel kept me glued and hanging on each and every word. I know I've used the word addictive when describing a novel before but it probably stands even more true in this instance because I dove head first into this book and didn't come out until I was completely done with it. I seriously think it's safe to say that Riley Sager is my favorite author currently because I've read almost all of his novels at this point and I've loved each and every one. Maybe I'm not as tough of a critic as some other people but I just can't get enough of all his twists and turns and intricately unique plots.

Lock Every Door is about a woman, named Jules, who has fallen pretty low in life and is struggling to make ends meet, when she sees an ad in the paper looking for a house sitter for three months at a prominent building called The Bartholomew and she ends up jumping at the chance to get her life back on track. She soon realizes that the job might be a lot more than she ever could have imagined. The plot was unlike any I've read before and I thought it was very well done and executed. There were a lot of layers to the story and I immensely enjoyed peeling it all back, layer after layer. I didn't think it was a slow burn because the twists and turns kept coming all throughout the book and just as I thought I had it all figured out, I realized there was a whole other level to the plot that I could never have even imagined.

Further on, the characterization was great. I loved the main character Jules and even the secondary characters because we really got to see what drove them to do the things that they did in the novel and I was never confused as to why a character is acting the way that they did. I love that we get to see into the main character's psyche and I found her very relatable as a struggling young girl trying to make it in life and still in the process of discovering who she is in the world.

Thirdly, the writing style was phenomenal as always. The chapters flowed and I loved how we kept jumping back from what was happening in the present moment with Jules and how she got to be where is she presently and her beginning at the Bartholomew. I find that way makes it even more exciting for me to read, especially when it's done right and Riley Sager did not disappoint. There is no doubt in my mind that I will be preordering and reading all of RIley Sager's novels that he releases in the future.

In conclusion, I loved this book and sped through it, unable to put it down. It was twisted and dark and it spiked my anxiety levels high in some parts. I would recommend this novel to all lovers of dark thrillers or even anyone who wants an exciting, albeit somewhat messed up read. Glad I finally got around to reading it!