Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

89 reviews

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Violence, Classism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Torture

Moderate: Car accident, Trafficking, Blood, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Self harm

Minor: Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Confinement, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Alcohol

_terah_hansen_'s review

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Murder

andatherrin's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Forced institutionalization, and Fire/Fire injury

kylieqrada's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

3.5 ⭐️s. This is the last backlist Riley Sager that I had to read (besides Survive the Night, which doesn't count). It was pretty good. Definitely my least favorite of his that I've read. The vibes were immaculate, but that twist? Womp.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Self harm

kazik's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Suicide, Classism, Death of parent, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood and Violence

greatestheights's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? No

4.0

What a ride, and what a satisfying (for me) ending. Genuinely creepy stuff. I have to admit to getting frustrated with the protagonist's obliviousness more than once, but very few complaints apart from that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Trafficking, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Suicide

Moderate: Car accident

slimepuppy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

For the most part, this book was a 3 stars - nice atmosphere, lots of creepy ideas and potential that couldn't become something better because of the snail pace and how utterly predictable every twist and turn managed to be.

But the last twenty percent of the book changed it up enough to earn a 3.5 - it veered from the most obvious to something a little more on the realistic side, even if the message was sometimes heavy handed.

The book had some genuinely chilling moments, like realising the person you're texting is faking their identity, or realising someone had been inside your apartment while you were sleeping -

 it's so violating, the whole thing. The ending was another positive aspect, it felt very cathartic to watch things finally unfold.

Still not the best experience, though. It was very slow, and the main character was so. fucking. dumb. Oh my god. It was infuriating how she would simply forget a lesson she had just!! learned!! Overrall, just above OK, and I'm not sure I'd read another book by Riley Sager.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Body horror, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Cancer, and Medical content

harleysmiller's review

dark tense fast-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

3.5

I loved this book! It was a fun mix of historical New York fiction and thriller/mystery. It’s always fun to try to put the pieces together in a mystery/thriller and this was no exception. The author did a great job of developing the MC’s backstory and creating a palpable creepy environment at the Bartholomew! Worth the read :) 

loved that Rufus ended up with the MC

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Terminal illness, Medical content, Suicide, Cancer, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

taelights's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

I decided to read this one because I recently read The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley and I saw some reviews comparing her book to this one. I really enjoyed The Paris Apartment and wanted more stories with similar vibes so I gave this one a chance and oh my god did I love this one. I got hooked so quickly. 

While I did figure out who was at fault and who couldn't be trusted pretty quickly the reason behind their actions shocked me and was something I didn't see coming. This was honestly such a great read and I had such a good time listening to it. This was my first Riley Sager book and I'll definitely be reading more by him in the future. 

The only reason I'm not giving this four stars is a thought a lot of Jules' actions where very dumb and I found myself sometimes getting very annoyed at her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Self harm, Kidnapping, Medical content, Stalking, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Suicide, and Violence

aus10england's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Oooh what a fun ride! I don’t mind a simple thriller, something you can digest without feeling overwhelmed and that made this an enjoyable read for me. 

Loved the setting, it felt very vivid, and the last chunk of the book really turned up the pace and had me rooting for the main character!

Some of the main character’s choices were VERY questionable, so some disbelief had to be suspended, but at least their choices were well written. 

Would recommend for the casual thriller reader! Those who are obsessed with the genre I could see tearing into this book, buy I’m just hear for the spooky vibes. 

Def curious to check out Sagers other work!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Abandonment, Medical content, Murder, Suicide, Torture, and Trafficking

Minor: Alcohol