A review by heatherocity
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

2.0

I want to give this 2.5 stars because i enjoyed some of it. I love a good plot twist, but WHAT THE HELL?? This book started off ok, a little slow, got more exciting and really had me guessing at all the possibilities, then abruptly just went absolutely off the rails. The big reveal came completely out of nowhere and it was kind of a letdown. The way there was zero kind of hint or foreshadowing in the first half, then a huge amount of vital information gets dumped on you at once... it wasn't done well. It felt like two very different books of different genres badly stapled together. Then, tacking on more twists at the end just felt so silly and unnecessary. I thought the ending was stupid.