Lock Every Door

by Riley Sager

They’ve offered you a luxury apartment, rent free. THE CATCH: you may not live long enough to enjoy it…

No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents.
These are the only rules for Jules Larson's new job as apartment sitter for an elusive resident of the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile private buildings and home to the rich and famous.

Recently heartbroken and practically homeless, Jules readily accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.

Out of place among the extremely wealthy, Jules finds herself pulled toward other apartment sitter Ingrid. But Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her. Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story - but the next day, her new friend has vanished.
And then Jules discovers that Ingrid is not the first temporary resident to go missing…

Welcome to the Bartholomew…You may never leave.

From the New York Times bestselling author of FINAL GIRLS and LAST TIME I LIED: 'the author delivers the kind of unpredictable conclusion that all thriller readers crave - utterly shocking yet craftily foreshadowed...' New York Times Book Review

• ISBN10: 1529104408
• ISBN13: 9781529104400
• Publish Date: 25 July 2019 (first published 2 July 2019)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 3 September 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Ebury Publishing
• Imprint: Ebury Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[lessthelonely]

Sometimes you just want a thriller. And well, this is one hell of a soapy one.

This might be like an incredibly weird comparison but I ask you to please let me cook: this reminded me of Verity by Colleen Hoover. Hated that book. Felt like an insult to people who actually read thrillers, but this one had substance. One thing I immediately noticed is that this book has tension, Verity and a lot of other so-called "psychological thrillers" don't. The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins comes to mind. Books like the ones mentioned seem to be around for meandering throughout most of the book, one sole plot thread being tugged at throughout the whole of it - these are books written and entirely conceived around their plot twists.

I can't say that about this book, and that's a good thing.

Lemme do a more flattering comparison: if anyone here has played a Visual Novel by Kotaro Uchikoshi (writer for the Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Files series), his stories always have some sort of mindblowing plot twist, in the sense that when it happens, you realize just how much was pointing towards the reveal. Once the reveals started coming - and I must also point out, I did predict one at least (not that I think it was that secretive) -, the narration launched into this pretty satisfying explanation of things that had happened, a lot of them you'd even think were just there for a quick cliffhanger.

I like when books respect you: each and every happening in the book is given new meaning by the end. I've also read some other reviews pointing that the big plot twist in this book is farfetched. In few words: I don't think so at all. If anything, it made tremendous amounts of sense, and it perfectly aligned with these little tidbits that keep appearing throughout the book related to its motifs and themes.

All and all, I wasn't expecting to enjoy this book so much, and after reading another book, I've already grabbed another Riley Sager book - let's hope I find it as intriguing as this one.

[bearley]

Almost a DNF but wanting to read the ending kept me going. The twist wasn’t exactly what I expected but it didn’t blow me out of the water. Characters were very flat, even the main character — her only personality trait was trauma. Glad the ending wrapped everything up though.

This was my first Riley Sager book and I was hooked from the beginning. The story line is crazy and that was part of the appeal. Apartment sitting gone terribly wrong. As a thriller I’ve read some that are a bit better but I wanted something that would grab hold and be entertaining. This was a creepy thriller that i thoroughly enjoyed.

4 stars to the amazing potential this book had to be an episode straight out of the twilight zone. the end was barely the second season of the 100, tho.

[maggiefan]

wow.........

[alindstadtcorbeax]

Star Rating: —> 4 Stars

Well I thought I had it all figured out and then BOOM! My first Riley Sager book! I know— where have I been?! I feel like I was in a rowboat trying to catch up to a speedboat or something

[tylerrosereads]

Unpopular Opinion Alert!!!

I gave this book 1.5 stars.
I did not like it.
I probably won't recommend it to anyone.

I bought it because of all the booktube hype.
It was on the favorite of 2019 list for a few of the booktubers I Love

However this book reads like a first novel... which it's not... its his third.
The book is riddled with lots of telling and not showing, which is a big rule with writing right?

And worst of all... the main character is DUMB like don't turn on the light, don't grab a weapon, but lets head to the basement kinda girl.

BUT she solves the mystery!

Along with the fact that our protagonist makes silly decisions I felt like you could tell that this is a man writing what he thinks a woman thinks... does that make sense? Lot's of woe is me, a little like slut shaming, and constant self doubt and put downs. Which I will admit we think about it some times.... but not every minute we have a second of silence.

Really the only thing this book had going for it was the setting. I love the creepy hotel/house vibes. You can tell that the author built the book around the setting because that's the only part that's fully flushed out and vivid.

But it's not worth it.
MAYBE if you've got a long commute and want to try out audiobooks for the first time go for this. Cause you wont miss much if you stop paying attention.

[zooloo1983]

This is a book I read one on the Pigeonhole app but I couldn’t keep up daily so I managed to read it in my own time.

It is my first outing with Mr Sager and I was eager to read this because I had heard so many awesome things about him, but I didn’t love this book as much I really wanted to. Don’t get me wrong I did enjoy it, there is a mystery to solve but I found the ending a bit flat.

I loved the build-up to the final events. You have Jules, a home sitter in an exclusive building which also just happens to be the place where her favourite book was written, what are the chances!

As a house sitter, she has rules to follow, random rules, not sure I could follow them. Yet she needs the money so she agrees. Then she learns of other tenants “disappearing” suddenly….then her friend Ingrid disappears. Working against the clock and with a handsome doctor, Jules sets on a path which could be her very last if she’s not careful.

One thing that I will admit that completely freaked me out were any scenes with the dumbwaiter! Especially when someone is dumb enough to go into the dumbwaiter, I will admit I might have been holding my breath then!

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager has been one of my most anticipated reads for 2019, so I immediately jumped right in. ⁣
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With it’s gothic feel and ominous undertones, the story unfolds with a thrilling mystery, chilling plot, and tons of gripping suspense. I literally stayed up all night to read this and it was worth every sleepless second. ⁣Thriller fans will enjoy this one! ⁣
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[whisperingchapters]

This novel was slow. I didn't think much was really going on. It felt kind of loose? Like it was going nowhere. I was eh about it for most of the time. I almost DNF'd this one but I pushed through.

I did enjoy the missing girls plot, as well as the hidden hierarchy it presented. It definitely showed that when you're privileged, you'll get everything, but also, maybe not everything. Living in The Bartholomew meant you were basically somebody of status or an apartment sitter, who'd get paid thousands of dollars for living there. But it also meant following all of these rules that were difficult to uphold.

The characters were interesting and intriguing. We have Jules, who's the new apartment sitter; Ingrid, another apartment sitter and new friend of Jules; Dylan, another sitter who's kinda quiet; Nick, who's a surgeon who's lived in The Bartholomew all his life; Leslie, the manager and the one who enforces all of the crazy rules; Charlie, the doorman who's kinda friendly; Greta, an author who doesn't like to be bothered at all; Marianne, kind of upbeat and seems friendly. There are many others but these are the ones that play such big roles in this story.

Throughout the novel, I had no idea which character to trust so I was doubting every single one. It seemed like everyone had an ulterior motive. I actually liked that I couldn't rely on anyone. It kept my heart racing.

After half of the book, things picked up and I was very invested in wanting to figure out what was going on. The answer left me completely speechless, not knowing what to think, or how to process it all. Let me tell you, it was beyond twisted! Also, I was so beyond happy to see that some of the characters got exactly what they deserved.

The author introduced different topics in this novel that I appreciated. While this novel was a mystery in every angle, it introduced investigating grief in various ways and loneliness.

Lock Every Door is an insidious and twisted novel, filled with confusion. You'll feel like you're playing a game of guessing. It kept me entertained once it picked up. I just wish the book had been at a faster pace from the beginning since I just didn't care much for it.

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