A review by horizonous
Survive the Night by Riley Sager

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

2.5

Here's the thing, I think this is the most readable book Riley Sager has written so far. With every other of his books I hit a point where I had to force myself to keep going because he couldn't really hold my interest. Not with this one. I mean, it wasn't good, frankly it got quite stupid, but I kept reading it in two days without feeling I'm hate-reading it, which says something, I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

I can understand why some people really hated this, because of the
(some of) it is just a movie
twist in the end, but I suspected as much from the beginning because of
how the prologue is written and the chapter titles
, so I wasn't really surprised. The "she sees movies in her head" situation is a lazy device to make a protagonist unreliable, the reveal of the killer is just 🙄 but what really, really annoyed me is the fact that Charlie
MARRIED HER KIDNAPPER!!?
🤬 I mean, really?
Up until that point I thought, depending on the premise, Riley Sager might be an author I will pick up in the future if I feel a bit slumpy and need something quick, but I just can't get over the fact how dumb his female protagonists all are, and so far Charlie definitely takes the cake. 
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