Lock Every Door

The way the twist was revealed was very anticlimactic. I wasn’t surprised mind-blown by it.

The beginning of this book was wayyy to slow and could've been shorten to only a few chapters. However, the book starts to pick up around page 130, and it really really gets intense in the last 50 or so pages. Originally i was really confused why people liked this so much, because at the beginning we were led to believe it was a paranormal story then a cult story, but i'm not going to spoil anymore because omg i couldn't see that twist coming. i really enjoyed the audiobook narration but i think it should of been two people because sometimes it was hard to follow which characters were talking. besides that i think the story deserves a 4.25/5 for the reasons above, honestly i want to rate it higher, and it hurts me that i'm not, however, the beginning held it wayyy back. for the actual audiobook it was a solid 4/5 she was really good but as mentioned above it needed another voice actor so we could differentiate between the characters. very fast listen/read and finished it in less then a day

Lock Every Door is a psychological thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat until the very last chapter. Set in New York City apartment building, this novel follows Jules Larsen. A down-on-her-luck woman who is offered a lucrative but strange opportunity to be an apartment sitter in the exclusive Bartholomew building after losing her job and apartment after ending her relationship with her boyfriend Andrew. The residents of this building are wealthy, mysterious, and seemingly untouchable. Jules becomes more and more fascinated with the residents of the building as well as its tenants and, in the process, uncovers a series of chilling events that lead to the climax of the novel itself, making it yet another classic for Riley Sager to add to his bestseller's list.

While this isn't my favorite work by Riley Sager, it's up there, as I didn't expect the climactic twist toward the end, as it's my goal to finish his entire collection by the end of 2025.I recommend it to anyone looking for a new style thriller that doesn't revolve around serial killers or the paranormal.

This book was an ok read. I enjoy the suspense, but I was able to guess a lot of the twist which took a little of the enjoyment away. If you can read it without trying to guess what’s gonna happen it will be a much more enjoyable read.

So glad I read this book... It was a scary good time...

10/10
Sager's writing lures you in from the first moment with the intense setting and interesting characters. It is 100% assured that I'll buy every book he writes from now on!
Amazing book, good writing and amusing story. Must read!!!!

Generic and unexciting start, but a great twist and ending.

What a wild ride. So, I was fighting DNFing this book for the first 80%, the only thing that kept me going was that I was just too far in to give up. About 70% in when the “twist” was revealed I rolled my eyes so hard I saw my brain, but I kept going because I was so close to being done. Then the second twist happened at 80% in and I have never been so happy I didn't DNF a book. The ending was absolutely fantastic and right up my alley. It redeemed the entire book for me.

I read this literally within a few hours.

This book is widely considered as one of the weaker ones by the author and boy, am I excited to read the rest of his works! I would like to point out (unrelated to the plot and the content of the book) that I picked it up because I was told that people who like Ruth Ware's writing hate Riley Sager and vice versa. And being that I somewhat detest Ruth Ware's books, I was curious. After reading this book, I can confirm that the above mentioned belief seems to be true. :))

The story is set in a very prominent landmark New York building and from the very beginning I was really interested. Because the atmosphere was right, because the main character was likeable and vivid, because the author made this ridiculous situation somehow seem plausible. Because I have been poor and know the feeling of having just a few bucks in your pocket, and not knowing where to go and what to do, and felt entirely defeated. And I think the author managed to portray that brilliantly.

I really liked the twist and the resolution, though I have to admit that I found the villain slightly too villainy, and that took away a bit of the believability. Which is why the book gets 4 stars and not 5.

.5 star added cause the twist was more welcome than what I thought was going on. Didn't love the mc though. 

So good! I didn't even see that twist coming!

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.

rich people are fucking crazy

Eh so so

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.)

3.5 stars - would've been 4 because i was hooked from the start but i hated the plot twist enough to drop the rating

4/5

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.

My anxiety was real at the end of this book

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 was everything I wanted and need in a thriller.....LOVED it!

I expected this to be a ghost story, but it turned out everything was just human' doings. (Spoiler: organ transplant black market)
This book succeeds in creating creepy atmosphere tho

2.75

i looooved the first 60% of the book and the atmosphere it had but sadly when the plot twist started to unravel i lost my interest. its not my favourite kind of a plot twist and i found it just a bit ridiciulous and it ruined the fun for me. also its my second riley sager book where i loved the set up and didnt love the plot twist/ending so yeah, dont know if im going to be reading more from him.

Nosy main character utterly lacking in common sense and a “twist” so predictable and cartoonish that it was almost insulting. Finished this only because it was a quick read (i.e easy to skim)Won't be reading any more by Riley Sager, [b:Home Before Dark 50833559 Home Before Dark Riley Sager https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1571683410l/50833559.SX50_SY75.jpg 73695354] wasn't as bad as this one but it still felt like a waste of time. Word of advice: maybe trusting a random stranger just because he's hot and rich isn't the wisest idea????

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.