Member Reviews
Oh my goodness what a brilliant read and would highly recommend to other people. A real page turner so thank you Netgalley and the Publisher.
What goes on behind closed doors in a posh apartment block? Those rich ones that surround Central Park look very nice indeed. John Lennon lived in a famous one called The Dakota. The one in this book is just as flash and famous and just as memorable for the wrong reasons.
Jules gets the chance to be an apartment sitter at the exclusive and gothic Bartholomew. She's to look after it for a while and live there, but there are very strict rules. no visitors, no sharing any pictures of it on social media and no staying away for even one night.. It's hardly a friendly place either as the neighbours are a bit strange. Very private and they dont' like being disturbed. There's another sitter in the building and she seems spooked. What IS going on?
This is one very creepy and unforgiving place. GOTHIC, WEIRD and VERY VERY DARK! It might put me off going inside a grand old building for a while to be honest. You know the phrase sometimes are just too good to be true. Well this job offer for looking after this apartment is! The place is CREEPY with a capital C. IT was great to visit but at least I could leave!
IT does get a bit far fetched towards the end but it was so much thrilling fun by that point that I didn't care. It was a reading experience and then some and I was SO in that apartment with Jules. It was a thrilling and scary read and a fast-paced read I really enjoyed.
Riley Sager manages to take the everyday, normal situation and then turn it into something really dark. Really enjoyed this but will look twice at those buildings in NYC next time I go....
Jules was broke living with a friend and now needed a job.
She was offered a job house sitting in an amazing building called the Bartholomew in New York.
But the house had secrets, and girls went missing after also taking up jobs as house sitters.
All the girls had no money and no family.
The story was very creepy and you could imagine the building with gargoyles on the roof.
I did enjoy it, but it was difficult to read as pages were repeated over and over again.
But well done for the story, will wait for another one.
Thanks netgalley for letting me read this early edition of lock every door.
I received this advance copy and am very grateful to author and publishers as I love Riley’s take on classic horror ,from summer camps ,survival and this an old gothic apartment with a dark history .
It’s clear in each novel where some of the inspiration comes from .
In lock every door I couldn’t help be reminded of rosemarys baby and sliver and yay I loved that as love those type of novels
This has a cast of characters all intriguing and all mysterious , can we trust each one ?
What did spoilt it a bit was fact that though v grateful for the advanced copy and never grumble at all ever about the flaws in the type as I understand it is advanced,this I did if honest struggle with .on every other page it would quickly interrupt what u were reading and repeat the page I’d just read then switch bk to where I was before it occoured ,if that makes sense .it just bought me out of the engagement I felt .
However I like this author so much I percivered as I wanted to know what happend and what was going on in this tale of suspicion and fear .
I will buy this author again and really like theway he is bringing classics back to life with new takes .
This is a riveting almost scary read. The story unfolds to reveal the criminal under layer in the New York building.
The final reveal is not surprising but it is a good read although mine was spoilt by the quality of the download. My text had large chunks of repeated paragraphs on every few pages and it was very difficult to read, to skim over the previously read portions and find the next relevant part.
I have reported this.
In spite of this I read and enjoyed the story and recommend it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it was a real page turner. There were a few moments when it felt more like a Nancy Drew or Murder She Wrote novel, but these were few and far between. I could vividly imagine the Bartholomew and Charlie the doorman, even George the gargoyle and Rufus the tiny dog wearing a top hat. It had me gripped and wanting to know the secrets of it's tenants and why they were offering poor people a luxury apartment to live in whilst being paid for the privilege of doing so. The ending was superb, far more than I envisaged at times so it's well worth keeping going if you lag a little in the middle. There were no real descriptions of Jules herself, so I couldn't quite imagine her but all the other characters were very well described from Greta the author to Marianne the soap star. I did wonder why Nick, the doctor, rich and handsome, didn't have a girlfriend but this came to light later on in the story,. I shall certainly be reading more from this author.
I have not read anything by this author previously but I would certainly be interested in reading other books she has written. This was a good mystery novel with the atmosphere and tension created right from the start in the description of the mysterious and exclusive Bartholomew. What starts off as a perfect opportunity to Jules crisis ends up as a nightmare!
Riley Sager writes a wonderfully atmospheric, well plotted, compulsive chiller of a thriller with overtones of horror. Jules Larsen's life is a desperate mess, she no longer has a job or a home, is in dire financial straits and heartbroken after the end of a relationship. So when she is offered the opportunity to become an apartment sitter at the exclusive and gothic Bartholomew, the home of the rich and famous in Manhattan, she grabs it. So there are strict rules, no visitors, no sharing on social media, the residents are notoriously private individuals, no nights away and no disturbing the residents, but the position pays well, and Jules is in no position to turn down the opportunity, even if it does sound too good to be true. Jules finds herself gravitating towards another apartment sitter in the building, Ingrid, who has concerns and is scared.
Jules calms Ingrid down, but is left with a nagging sense of unease, which turns into outright suspicion when Ingrid disappears, after apparently leaving in the middle of the night. Something is not quite right. Then it turns out Ingrid is not the only one to have disappeared from the Bartholomew. The building has a dark, strange and sinister history, of suicides, deaths, ghosts and other tragedies, a place about which rumours abound. Sager's narrative has a growing sense of menace in this engrossing story of missing girls, class divisions, and a worrying judgementalism. There are twists and bags of suspense and tension that had me avidly turning the pages as fast as I could. This was a unsettling and disturbing read, that requires a need to suspend disbelief to get the most from the novel. I have no doubt many readers will enjoy this thriller and love it to bits. Many thanks to Random House Ebury for an ARC.
I really likedthis book. It was a fresh, inventive and thrilling story that kept me engaged from page 1.. With two amazing books, Riley Sager has become one of my favorite writers. They know the dangers and familiar traps with these stories and turn them on their head. I'm still buzzing and can't wait to read the next book from this author.
Fancy being paid a lot of money for doing an easy job? Then look no further than Sager's LOCK EVERY DOOR - but beware. Not everything is as it appears and you may well wish you hadn't taken that job after all! Thank you Mr Sager for keeping me up all night reading this book.....Horror? Thriller? Difficult to put into either category but the category is certainly should go under is entertaining.