– Ready To Stroll Through The Bartholemew? –
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Author: Rodney Sager
Publisher: Dutton (July 2, 2019)
- Hardcover: 384 pages
When you’re at a low point in your life, just lost your job and your boyfriend is caught cheating on you, it might be best to watch out for deals that sound too good to be true.
Jules finds herself in just such a position. When she applies for the job of a lifetime: apartment sitting at the luxurious Bartholemew in New York, she’s wondering if her life might be taking a turn. To make it even more exciting, the Bartholemew is an old building she admires and the salary is $1,000 a week. Since she has a sister who disappeared years ago and her parents perished in a fire, she’s definitely in need of a place to stay and money.
She’s delighted to learn that the position is hers but then learns there are a few rules. Even though the rules seem a bit restrictive and odd, she agrees to them. How can she not?
In a short time, she begins to notice strange things. When she agrees to meet and talk to another apartment sitter, her suspensions and concerns only heighten. She begins to research the Bartholemew on the Internet.
Is it possible this beautiful building holds secrets that put Jules in danger?
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My Thoughts
What Concerned Me: This is a fairly hard book for me to rate and comment on. I was excited to read it because of the title and plot line, but most of the story had me waiting for the real suspense to begin. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t hard at all to keep turning the pages, but for me, it wasn’t exactly a suspenseful/thriller/page turner. It was a good, somewhat creepy, mystery.
And yet, when the book did get suspenseful and fast-paced, it also became a bit too unbelievable.
What I Liked Best: The descriptions are excellent. I could easily visualize the place without having so much description that the story ceases to move forward.
The book feels original and the characters are well-developed. This book is exciting and even (probably due to the excellent descriptions) a bit creepy. Why not mark your calendar or preorder it now! I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
Lock Every Door is the third thriller from Riley Sager, the pseudonym of an author who lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Riley’s first novel, Final Girls, was a national and international bestseller that has been published in more than two dozen countries, won the ITW Thriller Award for Best Hardcover Novel, and is being developed into a feature film by Universal Pictures. Sager’s second novel, The Last Time I Lied, was a New York Times bestseller.
