A shout out to Dutton and Netgalley for letting me preview this title in exchange for a review. Get ready to clench your teeth, hold your breath and be up until the wee hours of the morning. A thriller this good doesn’t come around often.

Jules finds an ad for an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, an icon she read about as a child. Given the excellent pay, and that she recently discovered her boyfriend cheating, and lost her job, Jules thinks she can follow the rules. Although they’re weird. No visitors, no spending even a single night away from her apartment 12A.

All seems great until another apartment sitter disappears. That’s all I’m revealing, because thriller aficionados have to read this one. Riley Sager, a pseudonym, knows pacing, casting suspicion and how to terrify the reader. I can’t wait for his next book.

This novel was absolutely everything it promised to be. Riley Sager delivers a riveting, compulsive thriller that keeps the reader in anticipation until the very end. All of the characters were carefully constructed and unique, setting the stage for a dark, creative plot.

When a young woman, down on her luck, lands the chance to apartment sit in one of Manhattan’s most prestigious buildings, she jumps at the chance. But not all that glitters is gold and soon the mysterious rumors of the Bartholomew become harder and harder to ignore. Will she become trapped in the gilded cage or forge her escape?

A must read! 5 stars

Thank you to #NetGalley for this ARC of #LockEveryDoor

Lock Every Door is one of the best books I've read this year! Mystery, creepiness, suspense, even terror, all mixed together result in a fast paced lesson in learning that if something seems to be too good to be true, it probably is!
Jules is a young woman alone in the world, without a job, and recently betrayed by her boyfriend. Needing a place to live leads her to answer an ad for a temporary apartment sitter at what turns out to at the Bartholomew, one of the oldest and most prestigious addresses across from Central Park in New York. Jules is thrilled; the furnishings and views are fabulous, and the pay for apartment sitting for three months will allow her time and resources to look for a job while living in luxury.
Jules soon learns that there are several apartment sitters in the Bartholomew, and that the permanent tenants are rather odd and standoffish. Figuring out what's going on, who to trust and how dangerous her situation is doesn't take long! Surviving her stay at the Bartholomew is soon in doubt and what happens in that building makes for an excellent read! Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review. I look forward to reading other Riley Sager books soon.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC for my honest review. I love Riley Sager and liked this book but I think I enjoyed his first two more. I loved NYC as a setting and the premise was great. The main character was likable and smart and aware (unlike too many mystery leads that do dumb stuff!). It was fast paced and sucked you in pretty quickly. I liked the twist but I will say I guessed the main killer pretty quickly and that's why it was only 3.5 stars for me.

Lock Every Door is the newest book from Riley Sager that releases in July. Thank you @netgalley and @duttonbooks for my copy. “Jules has sunk as low as you can. Her sister and parents are gone...she loses her job...and she catches her live-in boyfriend cheating. She is desperate for something to go right. She answers an ad for an apartment sitter in an exclusive building next to Central Park. So many rules raise red flags to her friend, Chloe, but not her. But the first night feels weird. And Jules begins to feel an evil in the building. When is it too late to leave?"
This book kept me turning pages and yelling at Jules to leave. There is tremendous tension with the main character, Jules, and her desperate situation. And an apartment that should spark joy, begins to creep you out. You will not guess the evil that lurks in the Bartholomew. Sager loves to make his readers go "What?!?" You will want to add this to your list of thrillers this summer. Another great read from Sager. And no camp in this one 😄🛶

Down on her luck, Jules Larsen takes a job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, an exclusive Manhattan residence. What starts out as a dream living situation, quickly becomes a nightmare.

Like Riley Sager's other two novels, Lock Every Door follows a young female protagonist with a mysterious past. This book trades the secluded outdoorsy settings of the previous novels, for a glamorous New York apartment building. It is a quick and engaging read, that is at times nail-biting and uncomfortable. It is easy to enjoy the characters and the mystery, so long as you can somewhat suspend disbelief.

A bulk of the first half of the novel involves Jules meeting the other residents and discovering the history of the building. This part feels more like a strict mystery, with the back half picking up the pace into thriller territory. There is a brief tangent in the middle of the narrative into what feels like another genre, that verges on the ridiculous. The novel is most successful when it is exploring the very real horrors inflicted by human beings.

Underneath the surface of the thriller is a look at socioeconomic class differences, which I found both unexpected and thought-provoking. I only wish the novel had explored this in a less exaggerated way.
By the end there are still some unresolved questions, but Jules's arc is both exciting and satisfying. This is probably my least favorite of Sager's novels so far, but I still thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

I received a free ARC of this book from Dutton and Netgalley. All opinions are my own.

I have been reading Sager's books ever since I first got an ARC of Final Girls back in the summer of 2017 and I have really enjoyed his ability to write horror that keeps me on my toes and makes me really enjoy the genre.

Jules takes a job as an apartment sitter in a fancy, ornate, and old New York apartment and the arrangement seems perfect, Jules gets money to get her back on her feet after a break up and she gets to stay in a beautiful place, and the apartment of the setting in her favourite book. However there are some small flags and weird rules such as no visitors ever, and no spending a night away from her apartment.

Over the next week things seem to get stranger and stranger, with Jules being drawn into a mystery of the apartment and not sure of who to trust and wondering why apartment sitters seem to go missing, before it happens to her.

This book was no exception to my enjoyment, but it was different from the other two. It was less overt and with less excitement than the previous books, but I was on the edge of my seat from a few pages in. The sense of dread I felt while reading this book really kept me reading and I really enjoyed being pulled into this mystery.

Overall this was a really enjoyable books, for those who enjoy the mystery/thriller genre and for those who would like a great introduction.

This is one of those books that is hard to write about without giving things away. After losing her job and finding her boyfriend in bed with another woman, Jules Larsen is trilled to land a high paying job as an apartment sitter in the famed Bartholomew apartment building. It's just the lucky break she needs to press the reset button on her life and begin again. But after a few days there, she begins to learn about the building's sordid past and she starts to wonder whether that past connects to the many strange things she's noticing every day.
Who are the people who live here? Why have some people moved away suddenly without a trace? Why is it that all of the apartment sitters seem to have no family to look out for them, no one to look for them should they go missing? And why do these apartments need sitters anyway?
Kudos to Riley Sager for throwing out so many scattered trails of breadcrumbs. Every time I thought I'd figured out what was going on, the trail would turn in a completely different direction. I truly didn't know what was really happening until the final perfect conclusion. A deliciously creepy, satisfying read.

Riley Sager does it again. Another great thriller that kept me up reading. Not quite as good as The Last Time I Lied, but better than Final Girls. Highly recommend.

I loved this book! All of Riley Sagar’s books are so good. So many plot twists and turns and great pacing. I was especially drawn to this book since I just moved to the Upper West Side myself! A must read.

Thanks to Netgalley and Dutton Books for an advanced reader copy.

Riley Sager’s Latest is a departure from his first two books.
Jules Larsen is down on her luck. She lost her job on the same day she discovers her boyfriend is cheating and ends up sleeping on a friends couch. When she reads an ad for a house sitter that pays 12k for three months, she’s sure there must be a catch. The job is located in an infamous building, the Bartholomew, the setting of one of her favorite novels. The rules are a little troubling but she pushes aside her doubts. It’s not long until she starts to wonder if the stories about the building are true.
I am once again in the minority as I didn’t love this book. I knew what the “ secret”’was as will any fan of Stephen King, Night Gallery, Twilight Zone, Or Tales from the Crypt fans.
The story moves quickly but there were no big aha moments.
It’s a retelling of a story that has been told in both movies and books and will be enjoyed by most.
Thank you to # netgalley and # penguinbooks for the ARC and the opportunity to give my opinion. Riley Sager is one of my must read authors and I look forward to his next book.

Riley Sager has done it again! He has now become an auto-buy author for me and I will read anything and everything he writes. He is absolutely brilliant! Lock Every Door may just be my new favorite by him!

Lock Every Door definitely falls into the classic thriller genre. It was terrifying and creepy without being over the top. I had chills at some parts of the book because I was genuinely creeped out. It's definitely a page turner and once you start, you will NOT want to put this book down!

I am not going to say a whole lot about the plot because it is in your best interest to GO IN BLIND. If you want to know about the plot, read the back of the book, and then nothing else. Just start reading because you will finish it in one sitting. I love the way the book is written. We get bits and pieces of 'Now' followed with a week prior, and the days leading up to the 'now.' It's one of my favorite ways a book can be written.

Absolutely perfection! It's chilling and suspenseful. I can almost always guess the twist in thrillers, but I am shocked to say I did NOT guess the twist in this one. I had my theory and I was proven wrong! Seriously, read this book. You won't regret it!

Thank you to Penguin Group Dutton and NetGalley for providing me with an early reader's copy in exchange for an honest review!

I loved this book. I finished it so quickly, and couldn't put it down. The author does a great job of relating you to the characters, while taking you on a journey at the same time.

Riley Sager has done it again, for a third time a book has been masterfully written. Fans of American Horror story are going to love this book. With the feeling of Murder House, Hotel, and Coven, this book has it all.
At 20% I was messaging other netgalley reviewers trying to find someone who had read this book because I needed to talk about it. I had questions ok! Mainly why they kept referencing the gargoyles.
I have now read every book Riley Sager has written so I was curious if it was going to go a different route and have a super natural theme to it.
There were so many hints as to what it COULD be, witches, curses, hauntings. All of it led up to a beautiful thriller that could very well be happening right this moment. That is one of the reason's I love this book, it is so believable.

If you enjoyed The Final Girls, and The Last Time I Lied, this book is not going to disappoint.

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is, right? We've all heard that, but when Jules is offered a fantastic opportunity she can't see anything but the awesomeness of it all. Recently laid off from her job and looking for a new place to live after she finds her boyfriend cheating, the perfect opportunity is literally placed right in her hands! The chance to be paid to live in a swanky apartment in the Bartholomew, a luxury building in New York. The catch? Lots of rules. Weird rules...no visitors, apartment sitters must stay in their room every night, etc. And the residents are rude and a little odd.This book starts out with Jules waking up and panicking in the hospital after escaping the Bartholomew. From there, the chapters go back in time over the course of a week from the time she first moved in.

Jules meets a couple of other apartment sitters and one of them confides in her she is getting concerned and is starting to feel freaked out living there. When she suspiciously is gone from the apartment the next day, Jules starts digging for answers. I can't give too much away, but just know this book is so suspenseful and kept me up throughout the night because I HAD to find out what happens to Jules! It's really dark and moves at a pretty fast pace that keeps you on your toes. This is my first book by this author but it won't be my last!

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for my advance copy. Lock Every Door will be released July 2nd.

Overall the book was an enjoyable read with some good twists and turns. The whole idea of being an apartment sitter in what is believed to be a haunted building did seem slightly unusual to me. There were several times when I thought the main character Jules should have realized that things really do tend to be “too good to be true.” The character seemed to be naive yet paranoid and over analyze things which made her naïveté seem odd. Overall the book was good though, became a page turner about halfway through. If you enjoy psychological thrillers this one is definitely interesting.

Lock Every Door was dramatic as fuck!! Every time I thought I had the twist figured out I was proved wrong 😅!
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When Jules lands a job apartment sitting at one of the oldest and most exclusive buildings in Manhattan that pays 4k a month she can't believe her luck! She's basically a guy in a country song; she's lost her job, her guy and is broke as fuck. She moves into the Bartholomew and it's straight out of novel; decadent, mysterious and full of rich and famous people. The job comes with some strict rules (no visitors, no nights spent away, no bothering other residents for any reason) but seems too good to be true. DUN DUN DUN!
Jules befriends Ingrid another apartment sitter, who tells her the Bartholomew creeps her out and then mysteriously "moves out" ...or did she just disappear?!

Nothing is as it seems and Jules is determined to get to the bottom of it all even if it means she might not make it out alive!

I devoured this book! Everyone knows I love me a stubborn inquisitive female protagonist and Jules fit that to a T. I liked reading her backstory and thought the older missing sister was interesting in relation to Ingrid. I loved the gothic spookiness of the Bartholomew! Gargoyles and floral wallpaper with hidden faces?! That's basically my dream house!
However, The Last Time I Lied was so creepy I expected a little more from this one! Definitely was hoping for a little more horror, but I still loved it!

Holy CRAPBALLS!!!! This book. Let me start by saying I love RIley Sager, and could not wait to get my hands on this title. It did NOT disappoint! Goodness.

Had just the right amount of creepy for me, and kind of scared me enough to not ever want to move into a really cool old building for fear that it may possibly be not what it seems. I wish I could write more, but I don't want to give away too much for anyone else waiting to read.

What to say about this book? WOW is the first thing that comes to mind. If you don't read this one, you are missing out. Riley Sager is like a fine wine, with each book he gets better and better and I didn't think this was possible. This book reads like an Alfred Hitchcock film, it has that "old school" feel while incorporating modern day themes and issues. Just when you think you have it figured out, the script flips and leaves your mind reeling. I was left wondering until the end. The characters are very real and likable, they are normal everyday people unlike many novel characters, who are unrealistic and made of fantasy. If you want a good read that will keep you hooked from the very beginning, you've got to check out this book!

Slow, creepy, nightmarish build to a dark climax! As a lover of thrillers, I almost always figure out the ending and any plot twists, this one is truly unique and I never saw it coming! Idare you to try and figure this one out!