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The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

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theimanimichelle's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

This book had two twists that I didn't see coming/guessed wrong!

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misslaurenreads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This story was really wild! There were lots of twists and turns. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did. I knocked it down from five stars, because the sci-fi element being introduced so last minute kind of threw me for a loop. I didn’t dislike it I just didn’t expect it because we were already about 300 pages in, and there weren’t science-fiction elements before that.

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_kayrae's review against another edition

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mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

This was an easy and fun read. The twists didn’t hit me very hard but they were enough to keep me invested.

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rachjellie's review

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mysterious fast-paced

Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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sissonne's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.5

Popcorn and fun, but many pieces felt cliche and expected.

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chelsevie's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-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

3.25

I don't know if Sager maybe tried to put too many plot twists and turns in here, but I have to give them credit for THAT genre hopping reveal, that was well carried through the last third of the book.
The exploration of alcoholism was also well handledz with the protagonist being quite multi-layered and engaging.
Not my favourite of theirs, but would recommend for fans of a good mystery.

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deni23's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

1.5

The book started really interesting. The pace was really fast, the story seemed interesting and promising. I was really excited to find out if Katherine was alive and if not who killed her. I started suspecting different people and trying to find out more from the "now" perspective. Then the part when Casey found Katherine in the basement possessed came and everything went downhill. First of all what the hell... second this story had so much potential and was ruined by this supernatural spirit (Len's spirit) who was possessing Kath only because he wanted to revenge Casey. It was such an unnatural twist that it just threw me off. After that the second plot twist where Tom was drugging his wife was so unnecessary and i felt like the author was just trying to drag the book by a few chapters. Overall the begging had sooooo much potential and it was just ruined. Absolutely disappointed.

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