Scan barcode
A review by tirwinreads17
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
3.0
First heard about this book as BOTM’s July add-on. I passed it up initially but fell victim to the bookstagram hype surrounding it and ordered it full price from Amazon. I was overall fairly disappointed. The first 100 pages were slow and a little mentally exhausting to read. Imagine reading only a few sentences of something actually happening in the book present tense followed by paragraphs upon paragraphs in what felt like rants or entirely separate stories in parentheses (not literal parantheses though, which it not being separated from the main present text made it more difficult to read and exhausting to keep shifting gears, but hopefully you get what I mean). I personally wasn’t a fan of that writing style.
My interest peaked a little more after about the 100 page mark, which is when the author decided to start shifting between character POVs. Although there was an extremely slow start, there were then a billion plot twists within a very short period of time at the end and it was difficult to accept the ending for what it was.
I would probably have not been happy if I sat through a film of this. Although I wasn’t this book’s biggest fan, it is my first Riley Sager read and I won’t hold that against him. I’ve seen bookstagrammers also commenting how it is not their favorite of his work. So I will add at least one more of his thrillers to my TBR before making a final decision about his stories, but I’m not in any rush to do that.
My interest peaked a little more after about the 100 page mark, which is when the author decided to start shifting between character POVs. Although there was an extremely slow start, there were then a billion plot twists within a very short period of time at the end and it was difficult to accept the ending for what it was.
I would probably have not been happy if I sat through a film of this. Although I wasn’t this book’s biggest fan, it is my first Riley Sager read and I won’t hold that against him. I’ve seen bookstagrammers also commenting how it is not their favorite of his work. So I will add at least one more of his thrillers to my TBR before making a final decision about his stories, but I’m not in any rush to do that.