So…this isn’t well written.

I’d like to say otherwise and I rarely say something like this so baldly, but…it’s just not.

Many authors keep notes with biographies for their main characters. These detailed notes can include everything from eye color to the name of their best friend when they were in elementary school. While the author uses these details to flesh out a character, they don’t dump all this information into the book. Until now.

Honestly, I felt like I was primarily reading character profiles. There was so much telling and so little showing. Just exposition!

The person behind everything was obvious from the start – zero surprise – and was remarkably unlikeable. And when I had to read every blasted detail about every blasted thought they had while planning this blastedly stupid revenge…I wanted to blast them. The only truly likable character was dead.

Finally, while it takes place in America, it doesn’t read like it. I finally found out the author was Australian.

I didn’t like this. I do think the author had the thread of a good idea, but needs to pay more attention to craft and learn to tell a story that actually moves.

*ARC Provided via Net Galley

Fabulous “locked room” mystery by Goldin. The Escaoe Room delivers a well-formed read that engrossed until the final page.

What a ride this book was!
I couldn’t put it down...hooked from the first page...twists and turns all over the place, and an ending that I didn’t see coming.
I loved the idea of the book from the description and it did NOT disappoint!
I encourage you to go out and buy this book...Megan Goldin is about to become one of your favourite authors!

Most ridiculous story I have ever come across. Poor character descriptions, decent writing, but overall a sad excuse for overall execution. Unsatisfying ending, as well as disappointing everything. Utterly inane.

Thoroughly entertaining, The Escape Room, is cleverly plotted with lots of unexpected twists and turns. A team of investment bankers are tricked into attending a team building activity which quickly goes awry leaving the reader on the edge of their seat as the pages fly by!

Thank you Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! What a suspenseful, emotional story. I was sucked in from the beginning. Sarah worked at soul sucking financial company that demanded their employees devote most of their time to making money for the company with little thought to their personal life and well being. Not to mention its a cut throat, corrupt environment that is particularly hostile to women, minorities and people with disabilities. Ring a bell? Way too close to home. The author excels at depicting flawed, corrupt characters and displaying their ugliness Ness as they fight to survive in an enclosed elevator. We are given a Bird's eye view of their lives, their thoughts and actions. I clapped gleefully when they got what they deserved at the end.

It just goes to show that money and prestige isn't everything. A definite recommend!

Holy Heck!!! The Escape Room is a fast paced thriller that completely blew me away!!! The smartly written storyline will have you trying to figure out the who, what, where and when until the very last page! There were twists and turns that had their own twists and turns—loved that! Megan Goldin told this novel in alternating (character) perspectives as well as time hopped throughout which worked perfectly to add intrigue and suspense! The Escape Room is a 5 star read that I HIGHLY recommend! I am so excited to read Megan Goldin’s prior novel (The Girl in Kellers Way) and I am already looking forward to whatever she comes out with next!

What an incredible book!?!? I devoured this title in about 3 hours as I simply COULD NOT put it down. A new author for me, I was interested after catching that it was recommended by Lee Child and OMG am I glad I did. Megan Goldin surely has herself a new fan! I truly could not put this book down - kept me on the edge of my seat from page one!

The story takes us through Sara Hall's point of view, a recent MBA graduate a few months out of school and still looking for work. A random encounter in an elevator after the worst interview of her life leads her to her big chance to break into Wall Street Finance.

We also follow four executives participating in a required corporate team building exercise that has them trying to escape a locked elevator. When nerves start to flare and everyone ends up on edge, the real answers start to come out... secrets shared, faults uncovered and a murderer exposed.

HIGHLY recommended and I'll surely be back for more from this author!

Don't you just love when you go into a book not really knowing anything about it and find yourself just devouring it? That is what happened when I picked up The Escape Room. I loved this book. The book involves four people who are summoned to do a mandatory team building exercise involving an Escape Room game. Once they all enter the elevator, it quickly becomes clear that this isn't just your ordinary escape room game.

The book goes between the present in the elevator and the past narrated by Sarah Hall. She is an ambitious business school graduate who is hired to work in a prestigious firm on Wall Street. That is all you need to know going into the book. The story was pretty fast paced and kept me engaged. I had an idea of who was behind everything, but I didn't know the why or the how. That was the best part of the book. I highly recommend this one. I have a feeling it will make my top 10 of 2018.

The Escape Room by author Megan Goldin is a phenomenal novel about a game gone horribly dark. It turns into survival to live for colleagues while trying to escape a work exercise. The entire story is palmary and I thoroughly enjoyed it to the last page!
Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for an arc copy of The Escape Room in exchange for an honest review.