maggiefan
Written on Oct 8, 2020
Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.
In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to get ahead.
When the four of them become trapped in an elevator escape room, things start to go horribly wrong. They have to put aside their fierce office rivalries and work together to solve the clues that will release them. But in the confines of the elevator the dark secrets of their team are laid bare. They are made to answer for profiting from a workplace where deception, intimidation and sexual harassment thrive.
Tempers fray and the escape room's clues turn more and more ominous, leaving the four of them dangling on the precipice of disaster. If they want to survive, they'll have to solve one more final puzzle: which one of them is a killer?
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2019
- ISBN10 1409189538
- ISBN13 9781409189534
- Publish Date 25 July 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Trapeze
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Audiobook (MP3)
- Duration 10 hours and 44 minutes
- Language English
Reviews
pagesbycyndy
Written on Mar 31, 2020
The story flips between the elevator and the story of Sarah Hall who worked at the company. I was intrigued by Sarah's story and enjoyed the mystery of trying to figure out what exactly was going on in the elevator. Between trying to figure out what happened to Sarah and what was happening in the elevator I was very entertained. While the ending was not a huge shocker it was appropriate and satisfying.
This book definitely is a thrilling ride!This review was originally posted on Cindy’s Book Stacks
whisperingchapters
Written on Aug 31, 2019
The Escape Room deals with taking a few co-workers and sticking them together in an elevator for a "game". They think it's a team building exercise. What they don't know is that this game will bring out dark secrets from each one, dark enough to want to kill them. And the biggest secret/question of them all, "What happened to Sara Hall?"
How much trouble could four investment bankers get into in a locked elevator?
This book is told in two points of views. We have a third POV for the elevator scenes and then we have Sara's POV. Sara is a woman who knows she wants to work somewhere where she can get lots of money and be set for life. Her opportunity comes to work at Stanhope. What she doesn't know is that this place consumes you. It won't leave you any time for yourself. You're expected to work 365 days a year, to miss birthdays, miss a birth, anything.
Each and every one of us would have taken a bullet for the firm. If truth be told, I think that most of us would have killed for Stanhope.
Sara was so different from her colleagues. She didn't view Stanhope as the all and all. I loved being inside her head and seeing things from her perspective, which was so different than everyone else's. She was friendly, she cared. Stanhope hadn't completely taken a hold of her life... Yet.
If I keep talking, I'll spoil everything. This is one of those novels you have to go in blank. I will say that I loved reading about each character and why those specific characters ended in the elevator. I also loved that the author talked about discrimination in the work place towards women, as well as being unfair with the wages that each worker gets.
The Escape Room is an ingenious, sharp and clever mystery. I do wish the ending had been more... Complete? I can't say much or again, I will spoil everything. Despite the ending, I recommend this unrealistic, yet highly entertaining novel.
Eve1972
Written on Jul 27, 2019
This book seems to have a lot of