Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

19 reviews

julienicole1106's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Torture, Physical abuse, Blood, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexism, Alcohol, Misogyny, Murder, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

carissa230's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Sara is getting desperate for a job when a dream career comes along. Working in finance, making more than she ever imaged. What could go wrong? 

Sara enters the company, but never makes it to the inner sanctum. The heads of the company are ruthless and care about making the deals at any cost.

The other perspective is the leaders of the company in an escape room. They’re stuck in an elevator and forced to escape to survive. It starts as a hardcore escape room, but quickly devolves as secrets are spilled.

The rotating perspectives keep things fast-moving. There is never a really dull part. Fun, quick read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault and Death

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

 4.25 stars- This book was very enjoyable and kept me guessing. I also liked that everyone even the "villains" was a full-fleshed-out character. The unexpected consequences of our actions were a great thing to highlight. The only characters I liked were Lucy, Lucy's mom, Sara, and Victor. But I think it was supposed to be that way.  I really liked the ending.  

I was glad Victor was the only one to survive the elevator

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Chronic illness, Drug abuse, and Drug use

middumullu's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

read as a paperback copy. some things to note - it was a LACKLUSTER escape room and the tension from that situation went away quickly. the flashback story was actually very interesting and the dynamics of the characters working in finance was compelling because they were all so messed up. there was an autistic character who i think fell into a lot of stereotypes (absolute genius and bad at social interaction to the extreme!) and probably the book that i've read with the most white characters to date. all that being said it was a quick and fairly engaging read. rating as a three because it was very compelling and i wanted to keep reading it, even with all of the issues previously discussed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Bullying, Car accident, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Toxic friendship, Classism, Chronic illness, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Infidelity

suicide -

turns out to be a murder covered up as a suicide, but the details are all in there

death of parent -

main character's parents die

lots of sexism throughout the book, sexual harassment in work environments (the firm it takes place in and the restaurants the main character works in.

shereadsmysteries's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Murder, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Death

Moderate: Violence and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Fatphobia, and Infidelity

kshertz's review

challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

This book kept me on the edge of my seat. We learn about Sara and how she comes into this strict company and how she is shown the door. It exposes the secrets of all these high power corporate people by trapping them in an elevator together. I love the themes of greed, capitalism, and revenge. Definitely recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Suicide, Gaslighting, Death, and Emotional abuse

sheilasamuelson's review

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Rating: 5 Stars!! 
Review: 
This was my first time reading a book by Megan so i wasnt sure what to expect but im so glad this was a successful New to Me Author Read. 

The Characters Diversity is what i loved most cause not alot of Thriller's feature 8 different Characteristics that arent the same which i think made this book even better. 

The Setting was very interesting since ive never read a book featuring Wall Street Bankers and Investors before which i think was a good dynamic for a Thriller. I especially loved all the Twists and Turns as well as the Shocking ending cause i did not expect said Character to be the killer, i thought for sure it was Sylvie.

Overall a Phenomenal Thriller even tho i do wish this was part of a series cause i'd love to see how some of the characters lives are now!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Gun violence, Murder, Death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Blood, Death of parent, Bullying, Drug use, Rape, Gaslighting, and Grief

kazik's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual assault

motherelectricity's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Gun violence and Suicide