Sorry put a review in here for a different book will edit it once I have read the escape room. Sorry again

4.5 stars_What a book!! This grabbed me from the very first Chapter!

Someone described this book as Saw in an elevator; and I agree, granted a less gory version of Saw. This book was full of surprises and twists I did not expect or see coming! It was very well written, creative and entertaining.
This book is told in different POVs, which makes it even better and ups the surprise factor!

This isn’t quite a 5-stars for me personally, just because as much as this was suspenseful and gripping, I ended up really disliking the four colleagues stuck in the elevator and didn’t care for their backstory, that part was a bit slow-paced, and then out of nowhere, it took a major positive turn!

Great story, great premise, and great ending!

Highly recommend this book and Melanie Goldin has gained a fan!

A thriller that will capture your attention from the very first page. A team building exercise that slowly turns into something else. A plan for survival was all that mattered. You do not want to miss this page turner!

3.5 stars! This was certainly a fun read but the ending was outlandish. I didn't overly enjoy the writing style and the pacing of the novel fall flat at times.

I loved this highly entertaining and fast-paced read. I found Vincent, Sam, Sylvie and Jules to all be very interesting characters with incredibly fascinating lifestyles. Their work first, high stakes lifestyle was incredibly interesting to me as I tend to live an opposite life. Overall, I really enjoyed the way this was written and the choice to flip back and forth between the elevator and the past events leading up to the team building exercise. I will be recommending this to all my suspense and thriller fans.

One of the best thrillers I've read this year. I was thinking it would end one way but it actually ended a different way. All around clever novel.

In a world where thrillers are a dime a dozen, it takes some real creativity to write one that stands out, and I feel that Megan Goldin did just that. So twisted, but so real too. Alternating between one of the employees at a financial institue past background and then views of a group of coworkers trapped in an elevator "escape room" in real time. I absolutly loved watching it all come together and how it all played out. Megan Goldin has found her way into my auto buy cattegory!

This book took me five days to read (and that’s only because I have a marriage, a job and other commitments). It was so hard to close this book at the end of the night!! What an incredible story!

It starts out with a security guard opening the elevator to find people inside and from there, we go back to the beginning of the story to find out what happened…

Told from two perspectives: The Elevator and Sara Hall, the story shifts between them to explain the past and real time. Sara Hall is down on her luck, has parents who need assistance paying medical bills and happens to have an interaction with Vincent, a man from upper management, in an elevator when she’s leaving a poor interview. Given his card, she schedules an interview with him and lands a job at one of the most prestigious investment firms.

Learning the ropes and the games played by the employees at Stanhope & Sons, she learns quickly the culture of “dog eat dog” and no sleep. She works under Vincent and most of his team: Jules, Sam and Sylvie. Sara is an outsider, but soon makes her way to become valuable as an employee.

One night the employees are brought to a team-building exercise in an elevator and have to solve clues to get out. But this isn’t your typical escape room. And the way in which the story is told, is so suspenseful that you don’t want to put it down. Vascillating between the events in the elevator and Sara’s perspectives, the entire story is told and we finally find out at the end what leads to the escape room.

Fantastic read, would love to see it become a movie, and told the way that it was in the story. Everything was perfect and the ending MAGNIFICENT!

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 (http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_03/16cfr255_03.html): “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

What a fascinating book. I was impressed by the storyline and the characters were all well written and complex. Where there are complex storylines combined with intriguing characters the reader experience is magnified tremendously. To have a book that is well written as well as entertaining is a delight. Reading is about escaping your world and entering another one. The word building was phenomenal in this book. Here I forgot about my own life and was immersed in the world created by the author. I would recommend this book.

This was the biggest waste of my time, even if it did get me published in a magazine. I did not enjoy this and I won't be reading any more from Megan Goldin

I really liked The Escape Room by Megan Goldin. It was a new and fresh take on a thriller, this one taking place at a workplace and beginning with the end of the story. I think it was so well done how we went back and forth between present time with colleagues stuck in an elevator as a type of escape room and learning about another colleague through the other chapters. While not totally unpredictable, it was still highly entertaining and I flew through it!

What a ride! Escape Room is about cutthroat employees. Great psychological thriller. Edge of your seat. This is what happens when the employees are doing a team building skills. How far will they go?#netgalley #goodreads

This is from the same author as The Night Swim. This author doesn't click well with me. I gave it three stars because that is a me thing, not anything against the author. I couldn't force myself to finish this book.

I really enjoyed this book; it was compelling and fast-paced. It seemed to wrap up quickly, but I enjoyed that; I don't need a long, drawn out ending. I kind of guessed where the story was going, but I was still happy with how it ended. Revenge is always good!

I actually read this after reading the author's other book, The Night Swim. I can't say that I loved The Escape Room. It was entertaining enough, but there were parts that dragged on and a lot going on to keep track of. I was excited about the dynamics of those stuck in the elevator, but they didn't seem to spend a lot of time in there (most of it is flashbacks) and when they did it was pretty boring.

Also, the characters were all pretty unlikeable and it was kind of hard to believe they are all such terrible people with little to no remorse.

Overall not a terrible book, but not great either. Based on her other book I read, she's a good author, so I think she'll continue to improve with each new book.

This book did not disappoint. Tale or revenge from one of the participants in a team building exercise which is held in an elevator. After reading this book, if my employer suggests a team building exercise, my answer: NOPE....lol..Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review. Receiving the book in this manner had no bearing on my review.

The Escape Room is a wonderfully dark atmospheric thriller! I didn't know what to expect when I first started reading. Highly recommend giving this one a read. It will send chills down your spine and keep you on the edge of your seat!

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for this ARC.

I really liked this author and this book did not disappoint, it was an appropriately paced, page-turner that will have me hooked throughout the story.

Megan Goldin shows how disastrous one elevator ride can be:

Vincent, Jules, Sam and Sylvie are called in for a last minute meeting, they all believe that they are either going to get their bonuses or they are going to get fired as their team had not been performing well as traders and investors. What they do not realize is that the elevator they are about to enter it s trap, one that was designed specifically for them, one that will test their friendships, the hierarchy of their team and their own sanity.

I really enjoyed this book and one of the best parts was that it was completely different story than The Night Swim, which I read earlier this year. Yes, there were some similarities in format (present and past alternating chapters) but that was about it. What is different is the story angles in the past we have the point of view or Sarah Hall the newest member on her team and in the present you get points of view from each of those trapped in the elevator.

I like that Goldin had the idea of an Escape Room, which have become popular as team building exercises and in this plot it make sense for this team to do something like that, with their struggles. I also like that this book highlighted some of the problems within Wall Street, especially the sexism and what people's worth is seen as solely based upon their gender. This is seen in several different ways throughout the book, from hiring to year end bonuses.

I like that it starts at the beginning and then takes us back as to how these four people end up in the working elevator and trying to figure out who put them there. We get to see how ruthless each of the people in the elevator are and how they would do anything from money and to protect themselves. This book is about the long game for each of the characters, how to succeed themselves while hoping others around them will fail. And although this is a close nit group, that does not mean that they play dirty with each other as well. There are some twists and turns along the way about who would put them in the elevator and while I able to figure some of twist (mainly the big one) I was not able to figure it all out.

Goldin is one of my favourite discovery of an author this year. I cannot wait to see what book and story she comes out with next. Highly recommend this author and book.

Enjoy!!!

Well that was a fun read! This is my second book by the author, even though I received this one first from NetGalley. I had an issue with the formatting and put it down after trying a few times to get through it. Then I promptly forgot about it.

After reading and enjoying The Night Swim, I dug The Escape Room back out and took the time to figure out the formatting issue and dove in. I'm so glad I did.

There are plenty of twists and turns and every time I thought I had it figured out, I didn't. Which I loved. I figured out who the mastermind was probably about or just before the author wanted me to and I wasn't disappointed at all.

Okay, some of the ending truly tested my ability to suspend disbelief but it didn't take away from my enjoyment of the book.

Ms. Goldin definitely has a fan in me and I will grab up her next book as soon as possible.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for hooking me up!