Survive the Night

I’ve been sat on this review for 24 hours.Riley Sager is a “don’t think about it just buy it” book for me.I owned my copy and a book club I’m in picked this one to read, so I jumped in too. It’s always nice to be able to chat about a book, right?This thriller has a good good premise and a good plot but I had some issues with the young female in this story.Red flags! How many red flags can someone ignore when they know they are in danger but just calmly weighs up (very sensibly) not to flee for your life?Just sometimes it pushed things a little too far past belief.I never thought I’d give this author anything below 4* as I love the style, the stories and the thrills this author throws my way whilst reading. This one, one minute I’m enjoying it, making excuses for certain things I think is daft, then I’m “oh c’mon! Run……>” but no.The last section in the book, the bit written in italics I loved that but.The tying up? Ok. You can get away with that one.Exciting 5/10Thrilling 5/10Plot 7/10Overall 3.5 rounded down 3*I might be unpopular with my thoughts, you might think it’s better than bread and butter with a cherry on top. And that’s good! For me, it was kind of lacking.I’ll still be buying the next book that comes out though!

I love this book so much. There are so many fun turns and details that make it difficult to stop reading.I think Riley Sager is my favourite author as all of his books have been perfect.

I waited so long for this book because Riley Sager is amazing. Unfortunately this book had so many logistic issues with the main character that I had such a hard time finding any of it believable enough to care. On top of that, I figured out who the killer was from about 10 pages in. This was unfortunately a disappointment.

So twisty!! Loved it!!

I really wanted to like this book, but when I had a hard time getting into the physical copy, I purchased the audible version. While that one was easier to get into, I was very disappointed when I figured out the entire story within the first two hours. The writing was tedious and boring. The main character was annoying and unlikable. The writing was a sort of stream of consciousness type, and I do not like that. There was nothing remotely scary or thrilling. This was probably due to the fact that I had no vested interest in the main character. I actually liked all the other characters and felt more sympathy for them. Survive the Night is by far the worst book Sager has written. Charlie, his protagonist was so poorly written, which is ironic because the story is based in the early 90s where feminism was so alive. Charlie is the polar opposite of any strong female character from that era. I have never read a more unlikely or absurd tale. There were so many times the character could have gotten out of the bad situation and Sager chose to have her stay. Honestly, this book has solidified my belief that Sager can not write a decent and believable female character. Even the ending felt like it had been altered with the "surprising twist" to make all the holes and misgivings acceptable. I will not be reading any more of Sager's books after this trainwreck of a tale.