I'm going to try to keep this review spoiler free, because holy-moly was that a twist I didn't see coming!

Casey Fletcher is yet another seemingly unreliable narrator who has escaped to her family's lake house after an unforeseen tragedy sends her off into a self-destructive spiral. The lake house is an idyllic respite from the unforgiving eyes of the press and Casey's unforgiving mother (their relationship was very much a Debbie Reynolds/Carrie Fisher callback, which I enjoyed). Casey's only company are an elderly writer who lives across the lake and the Royces, a picture perfect couple who live in a house filled with windows across the lake.

Casey begins to see things she shouldn't and things start to take a turn for the worse after Casey saves Katherine Royce from drowning in the lake one morning. Twists and turns abound in this latest from Sager and I found myself totally taken aback by the mic drop Sager gives the reader towards the end of the book.

This was a fast paced, thrilling novel that will be perfect for readers to take on their holidays this summer. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and will be recommending to customers for their upcoming vacations.

TW: Alcoholism, toxic parent relationship, drugs, death of spouse, domestic abuse, child abuse, suicide

*****SPOILERS*****
About the book:Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple who live in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is rich; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.

One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage is not as perfect and placid as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey becomes consumed with finding out what happened to her. In the process, she uncovers eerie, darker truths that turn a tale of voyeurism and suspicion into a story of guilt, obsession and how looks can be very deceiving.
Release Date: 06/21/2022
Genre: Thriller
Pages: - -
Rating: ⭐

What I Liked:
• The cover
• The writing has gotten better

What I Didn't Like:
• Across the lake is mentioned a ton
• The plot feels like something we've read/watched 1, 000 times before
• Troup of broke husband married to rich woman
• 183 mentions to the word water
• The "twist" ending
• The ending
• Another female lead

Overall Thoughts:This is the first time I've ever received a disclaimer (**Please note: this book has some major surprises and we encourage you to keep reviews SPOILER-FREE to preserve the reading experience for everyone**) for a book before. Does it make me want to listen? No. There was a study done that when people are told NOT to do something it makes them want to. It feels weird to be told to review a book honestly but not talk about spoilers. So no one ever should write a review that talks about it? That's not me so here's my SPOILER review.

If you're like me you don't expect much from Riley Sager, so when I was sent this book for review I was eager to jump right in. In typical Sager fashion we have a woman as our main character who is alone. For me the conversations between the characters always feel so cheap and fake. Like there is something off about it.

Why is there always some kind of actor in his books? Last one was a girl who dreamed of movies and now this one is an actress.

His books always remind me of when you fall asleep to one movie but wake up to another movie. He always mixes one movie with another movie. In this case it's Rear Window. The descriptions to the window and how they travel seamlessly through each room that's Hitchcock's Rear Window aká It Had to Be Murder for which Hitchcock based Rear Window. Author even me to s how what she is doing is like Rear Window.

Riley Sager has this way of writing situations with women that in a normal day would make them feel uncomfortable, yet he acts like it's normal. Maybe because he's a man he can't get what it's like for a female. There's a part where Casey is watching the neighbors across the lake with binoculars and a man she doesn't know asks her if she's enjoying the view. Does Casey act so startled that she acts in a normal way? No she is calm and jokes back with him. Like no no no! A woman alone in the middle of the woods would NOT just act all happy and think this stranger is cute. She would think this strange man just showed up out of no where at my house while I am alone and he could hurt me. That's where he always looses me. The women don't react to normal dangers.

Yay..... Another HOT handyman 🥴Now you know you're in a Riley Sager book

How is she seeing this much going on with the binoculars at nighttime in the dark? She can see him smiling while he is on the water. She mentions that last night was foggy. How did she see across the lake? How did she see so clearly everything that Boone was doing? So did her husband really use these binoculars to look at birds or to stalk women?

I love that in this book the abuse that Katherine did to Tom (punching him in his face) is his fault because he grabbed her first. Imagine if roles were reversed... If Tom hit Katherine because she grabbed his arm. Our dear binocular watching stalker would have been on the phone with the police. Agh.

The women in these books are always so ridiculous. There is so outlandish and jump to conclusions so fast it's insane. I love how she's had like three conversations with this Katherine lady and suddenly she knows that she's been murdered by her husband because she's not returning her phone call.

How did she not hear Boone open the door when he said he heard the scream? Earlier she had mentioned that she was able to hear the screen door squeak when it was open I doubt very much he was being quiet when he opened the screen door and stepped out this time since he heard a scream. Wouldn't he had checked on the neighbor to see if she was okay?

I love how calm she is when Boone is in her house. She remembers him showing up in her house when all the doors were locked. She wakes up the next morning and has breakfast with him because he made her food. The other thing that's annoying is when a man tells her to do something and she obeys and then finds out that he's right. Boone tells her to eat food and she'll feel better - she does - and now she is shoveling the food down.

Why does every Riley Sager book have to have some stupid man whose quote sexy show up in this girl's life and always have to save her in some way?

Every drink Ellie has seems to give her super powers. She has like 8 or 12 drinks and she's able to tow across a lake during a storm that's turned the water choppy. Being that wasted I would assume she couldn't do much other than pass out. It's mentioned before she's had 6 drinks and passed out on the porch chair all night, but here she is being a superhero.

Was Riley Sager drunk when he came up with that weird plot twist of Katherine being possessed by Lens body 🤔

Was easy to guess Len was the killer as the murders stopped almost exactly up to the point he died. Plus hasn't it been the boyfriend a few times in his books? If he knew he had the licenses in the tackle box why oh why would he be cool with her getting the lighter? You're going to tell me he forgot about them in there. Then she's gone long enough that she can call two hotels to find out about if he stayed there and he briefly questions her being gone so long to get a lighter.... Also how RIDICULOUS is it that she finds out he is a killer and decided at that moment that she is just going to kill him, comes up with a plan in 10 minutes, and is he is dead in a few hours. Not sure how no one on this quiet lake that had people in the house on a summer night heard nothing.

How Riley sager assumes people are reading his book and how I'm reading it when I got to the twist.

I've watched a lot of interviews with killers and so I think it's odd how much Len is saying he did all of this because of his messed up childhood. Most times killers just talk about how it's a feeling that they get I can't really recall many of them blaming their childhoods. I'm sure there are a few but he just sounds opposite of a killer. Killers love taking blame for their murders and he seems like he's making an excuse to dissociate from them.

No where in this book up this point did it even hint at a supernatural element. It's out of the blue that now there's a possession. What a dumb ending. So no one swam in the lake for 18 months that he could have possessed? At first I thought it had to be someone that had died but he was able to possess Casey so anyone swimming could have been possessed.

Riley sager treats alcoholism as though it's something you can switch on and off. She just manages to forget she hasn't had a drink in hours or days when before she was getting shaky not having it. She then purges the house of all the alcohol like it's nothing.

It's never explained why Katherine was on the laptop and turned around startled when Tom caught her. Or why she wasn't allowed on the phone with Boone when she rushed off the phone when Tom caught her.

Boones wife killing herself by throwing herself down the stairs??? What? Who kills themselves in such a weird way? Seriously someone give me one person who has killed themself in this way.

Not sure why Casey is suddenly now worried about where the bodies are at when before she didn't care at all before.

They come up with a plan to tell the police that Katherine was just found coming out of the woods lost. What about the rope burns on her wrists? There's no evidence that she was out in the elements for days.

Oh then we find out Tom is trying to kill her for real. He shows up at Casey's house doing this but with a wine bottle because what couldn't be a whiter thing to do. I kept laughing picturing him getting in a boat with a wine bottle to look so threatening. How did he know right at that moment that she was going to remember the drug resadue on the glass that broke when she never mentioned it to him before? It doesn't make any sense for Len to talk to Tom about what Casey did because he was still in love with her. It's so stupid that he still wants to go through with killing his wife when not 2 days ago they all were suspecting him! Oh and he wants to kill Casey too because she knows the truth. Dude, everyone is going to notice she's missing after all this weird shit went down. Casey manages to kill him with the wine bottle. What a weird an desperate twist the author tried to insert here. It was so cheesy and misplaced. How did Tom get to the other side of the lake that she never noticed and no one saw him?

PS - the storm turns out to be nothing then a small rain storm 🤷🏻‍♀️. This whole time it's talked about and it goes flat.

Final Thoughts: “I always look to movies for inspiration,” says Sager, who conceived the idea for Final Girls during an annual viewing of John Carpenter’s Halloween. aká you steal movies and just turn them into books because they are such old movies you think people won't notice. Everytime I read one of his books I'm just looking for the "idea" that sparked this book.

“The books I had published under my real name didn’t get anywhere near the attention or the reception [that Final Girls got], so I knew that it was something rare and something special, and I tried to appreciate it as much as I could,” Sager says It still bothers me that he hid behind a woman's name to get more popular.

The whole time I wanted it to be Katherine and Boone having an affair and trying to bump off Tom because she didn't want to share her money with him anymore. Oh Eli was working with Len and they murdered those girls. Sad that the ending he gave was the best he had going for him.

This book was odd. It feels like he's running out of ideas. I'd tell the author to take some time off and come back with a book that's not rushed.

This book took some twists and turns that I didn't expect, but I think I enjoyed it.

True to Riley Sager's other books, the House Across the Lake centers around a woman who has lost her way. Casey Fletcher is an actress who has started drinking to cope after the sudden death of her husband. After ending up in tabloid headlines, her mother decides it would be best for Casey to take some time away from the spotlight and stay at their family's lake house. One morning, Casey sees someone flailing in the lake and decides to go out and save them. It turns out to be her supermodel neighbor, Katherine Royce, and they become fast friends. Like, after a day of knowing her, Casey feels like she should be aware of everything that happens to Katherine. Bored and alone, Casey spends most of her time drinking and spying on her neighbors with her husband's old binoculars. Katherine and Tom live in the glass-walled home across the lake, making it super convenient for Casey to snoop. One night, Casey sees Tom and Kathrine fighting, and then the next day, Katherine is nowhere to be found. Thus begins the start of Casey's excellent and not naive at all detective story.
Like many others have said, I found the beginning of this book to be slow. It took me until about 60% of the way through to get to a point where I didn't want to put it down. I also found the continuous mention of Casey's drinking very repetitive. We get it; she drinks a lot all the time. We understand that she is supposed to be an unreliable narrator. However, I did find it strange how much she was able to accomplish after having eight or nine glasses of straight bourbon. Not only could she function normally other than listing to the side a smidge, but her memory didn't seem to be effect at all.
And then there was the twist. Which I did not expect. Well, I expected maybe 40% of it. So that was definitely a surprise. But, I will say that by the end of the book, I had to say that I enjoyed it. It was a strange read that seemed to change genres slightly at the end. This story will stick with me for some time, and I think fans of Sager's Lock Every Door and The Last Time I Lied will really enjoy this book.

TLDR: Not my favorite book of Sager's. Skip this if you are a frequent thriller reader or dislike books where the MC is a woman who is unreliable because she is drinking <eye roll>

Casey Fletcher, an accomplished actress, has been sent to her family's expensive lake house to try to curb her drinking. She sees an altercation between a married couple in the house across the lake and the next day the wife is missing.

If this is starting to sound familiar....

The first 2/3 of the book is very very (very) similar to The Woman In The Window mixed with The Girl on the train. Basically the new Netflix show: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

The last third, which came out of absolutely nowhere, reminds me a lot of another popular thriller. And the solution to the problem was EXACTLY THE SAME as the solution in that other thriller. It was uncanny.

The pacing was incredibly slow, until the last third, where it goes off the rails. The characters were not new or interesting and, as I already said, I can't stand books where women are unreliable just because they have a drinking problem.

This book hasn't turned me off of Sager entirely, because I truly loved Home Before Dark. I hope he tries something spooky again!

Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for the gifted eARC!

I was so excited to get approved for an early copy of Riley Sager's latest book to read and review that I had to read it straight away. This book is wild! This was an unforgettable mix of Rear Window and The Woman in the Window but on steroids.

A grieving widow, Casey uses alcohol to cope with the loss of her husband who drowned in the same place she's staying. Casey also happens to be a famous actress. She is spending some time in her house on Lake Greene to hide out from the press. On the other side of the lake is another famous couple, former supermodel Katherine Royce and her husband Tom. Just as they start to get friendly, Katherine goes missing. With the help of her husband's bird watching binoculars, Casey has been keeping an eye on her neighbours and their goings-on. Casey is suspicious of Katherine's disappearance and is sure that her husband Tom is behind it. So of course she decides to investigate her friend's disappearance.

The author does a fantastic job of creating an ominous atmosphere which has you on tenterhooks wondering where the story is going. The characters are believable and one feels for the main protagonist Casey.

The book has some great twists and turns and though you expect that the plot goes in a direction that one does not see coming at all including the jaw-dropping conclusion.

This is a must-read for all thriller and Riley Sager fans.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for sending a digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

I usually love books by this author, but this one is a bit muddled. The lead character is yet another drunken female who may or may not be seeing what she thinks she is seeing. She uses binoculars to spy on neighbors across the lake (Rear Window, anyone?), who may be having problems. The lead drunken female lost her husband over a year ago in that same lake, and is having trouble adjusting. There is so much more to this story than the reader thinks, so much so that one almost needs a score card. Still, it is worth the time and effort to read this weird, confusing, head-scratcher. Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Group Dutton for providing an ARC.

Every time I start one of Riley Sager’s book, I tell myself that I will not be caught surprised by one of his twists— oh boy, was I wrong again! The story starts off like every predictable tragic woman in a window story but then— oh but then! I won’t give away surprises but be rest assured, you do NOT know where this tale is headed! I adored it!

This entire story is filled with thriller tropes and damn it, I enjoyed it so much! This is a new Sager favorite of mine now.

We got:
✔️Secluded lakeside homes that scream wealth
✔️Sudden death of a spouse…or two?
✔️Depression fueled alcohol binging
✔️Insensitive mother doing insensitive things
✔️Nosy spying neighbor
✔️Ghosts from the past
✔️Hot lumberjack next door
✔️Impending storm
✔️Husband as a murder suspect
✔️More alcohol…like, a lot more.

Our girl Casey can DRINK. She could put a pirate to shame. For reals. 🥃 🏴‍☠️

Anyway, I just love Sager’s writing style and thought this was a great mystery thriller. I loved that the story is written in a Now and Before format, it made unraveling it extra fun. Sager was very clever in how he set it all up. When the twist hits, it hits hard. 💥🥊

I also had fun spotting the little Easter Eggs he wove in relating to some of his past novels. I see what you did there, Riley! Love that! 👏🏻

Widowed and out of a job, actress Casey Fletcher has been banished to her family's lake house to hopefully get off the booze and out of the spotlight. Except this is the very same lakehouse where her entire life fell apart, so yeah, that's not going great. Across the lake in a house made completely of windows, Tom, a rising tech startup founder and his beautiful and rich former model wife Katherine are visiting the secluded lake right as fall settles in Vermont. Curious Casey starts to peer into their lives using her deceased husband's binoculars and drunkenly witnesses a lover's quarrel right before Katherine goes missing. But so much of the story is not adding up — including another lake visitor's — a hottie named Boone — past.

Loved the premise of this book — despite being a bit of a tired troupe. I truly felt that if anyone could do a good job on the whole drunk low life lady spying on people, it would be Riley Sager. And he did, for the most part. I really loved Casey and was looking for alllll the clues as I was reading, thinking I could figure out the whodunnit. Literally could have never predicted how this one twists and turns, so for that, I give Sager all the credit. Hey, if you want your thrillers to surprise you, this one will def do that. There is an element to the book that I'm really not the biggest fan of, and there's no way to share on that without major spoilers, so I'm just going to leave it at that.

Not my fave from Riley Sager, and I think this will definitely be a love it or hate it book for everyone.... I still think I mostly enjoyed this ride and hope everyone else does too when it comes out on June 21! Thanks to Dutton and NetGalley for the eARC of this book!

The house across the lake had me just with the quote at the beginning which was,

"I think he did it, but I just can't prove it."
-Taylor Swift," No Body, No Crime"

I am a major Swiftie and as soon as I read this, I got the gist of the book. I thought the plot was going to be similar to the song, but the author did a brilliant job tweaking it into a unexpected ending. I finished the book in one sitting because I couldn't put it down and I just needed to know what happened.

The plot had so many twists and turns. It had so much suspense and action in it. The book started off a bit slow, it was eerily similar to "The woman in the window". I didn't really enjoy the excessive drinking in the book. It made me wonder how a person can drink so much, investigate a crime and also be physically strong. That's the only part of the book I had a problem with.

The book was set in a quaint Lake with lake houses all around. The main character was Casey Fletcher, daughter of an actress and a actress herself. She lost her husband in an accident in the Lake. Since then, she became an alcoholic. Her mother sends her to the Lake House after bad publicity as a punishment. But immediately, Casey seems to go fully into stalker mode when she sees her new supermodel neighbour, Katherine.

Casey saves Katherine from drowning and they form a bond since then. She keeps an eye on the house across the lake because she has a bad feeling about Katherine's husband, Tom. She sees something suspicious and Katherine disappears the next morning. There were a lot different red herrings in the book and it kept the plot fresh. If you like crazy thrillers, check this one out.

Wild and Totally Unexpected

House Across the Lake is the story of a widowed actress Casey, an alcoholic who saves a girl, a former model from drowning one day. Casey seems fascinated by Katherine and Tom, a glamorous couple who happens to live on the other side of the lake and start to keep a tab on their life with a help of her binoculars. Now this is a usual next door story but with a twist. So when Katherine goes missing, Casey is the only person who starts looking for her and unravel the mystery.

To be honest, the first 30-40% of the book was a mere typical story that could be dragging and took a lot of time to read. I liked the characters and Casey being stubborn on things made it easy to connect and read further. But the last 30% was a absolute wild ride. I just finished the last 30% in a single sitting because it was that good. I appreciate the authors writing, his style because Sager has just blown all the twists record.

I was very confident that I could guess the plot and where it was going, but then Sager has done an exceptional job by layering each twist one on another. Overall loved it. Read it if you like Detective novels, suspenseful novels, books with twist.

Thank you to Dutton books and Netgalley for providing me an arc of zthis amazing book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to the publishers for allowing me to read the advanced reader copy of this through netgalley.

I enjoyed this book. The first 70% of it I was worried it was going to turn out like so many other thriller books, but then the author threw in a twist that I definitely did not see coming.

An ARC I was super excited for but was extremely let down by. So much happened in this book but ultimately, I really didn’t love the twist. (Possible spoiler alert coming next???) After reading “Lock Every Door” I expected way more and was all around disappointed how much this book felt like a mix of “The Woman in the Window” and “Layla”, which were both ok to me. Overall, I will still continue to read more Riley Sager, but this one just did not do it for me.

The title and setting had me eager to read Riley Sager’s newest release, The House Across the Lake.

Casey Fletcher has been banished to her parents’ summer house in Vermont in order to escape the press, recover from her husband’s death and get her life together. Her days consist of drinking heavily, to avoid the painful memories of her husband’s drowning at the lake, and peering through her binoculars to watch her neighbor’s lives. As the summer progresses, Casey befriends the wife across the way, meets her hunky neighbor next door and gets reacquainted with the grandpa-like friend from her childhood. What seems like an idyllic and peaceful place is actually full of secrets that are gradually revealed as the story progresses.

Part Rear Window, part Gone Girl, Sager kept me guessing until the plot took an unexpected turn. The improbability of the twist curbed my enthusiasm for this novel but the scary, spooky events in the story kept me reading. If readers are looking for an escape from reality, this title won’t disappoint.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Dutton for the opportunity to read this book before its release in return for an honest review.

Casey is a broadway actress who is following in my mothers footsteps. She has always felt she had big shoes to fill but loved being on stage. As time went on the pressure was starting to get to her and alcohol become her new best friend. After an embarrassing moment with the paparazzi seeing Casey drunk in the middle of the day her career was in jeopardy.

On the advice of her mother, Casey moved into their cottage home on Lake Greene to lay low while the media attention dies down. However, Lake Greene also has bad memories for Casey as this is the place her husband drowned in the lake just a year prior. Casey’s drinking problems continues to worsen but one day she notices a woman struggling to swim in the lake and jumps to the rescue to save her. When the woman who happens to be a famous model goes missing it’s up to Casey to find out what happened to her.

This was my fifth book by the author and I found this one to be really different in terms of writing style. This was not a bad thing but it didn’t exactly feel like the other books he has written. However, the spooky and scary aspects was classic Riley. I really did not expect the back half of the story to go where it did but I absolutely enjoyed it. The book had a mix of a lot of themes such as family dynamics, alcoholism, friendship, love which I thought was great. The book also combines suspense, mystery and horror into one story and it was wonderful. If you are a fan of Riley or this is your first book of his you will enjoy it and won’t be disappointed.

The first quarter or so of this book had me thinking that it definitely wasn't getting any points for originality. It was the same old formula we've all read time and again: recent widow with a drinking problem sees something suspicious while spying on her neighbors, but nobody believes her so she takes matters into her own hands...

BUT to my surprise, halfway through things took a turn for the better with a crazy twist I did not see coming. Sager's descriptive writing and strong characters also helped this read stand out in the crowd of these types of thrillers. The unexpected originality bumped this read up to 4 stars!

Thank you NetGalley and Dutton for an ARC of one of my most anticipated reads of the year!

Rounding up to 4.5 stars

Just what in the world? First off, I really liked this. Will everyone love it? I can already tell this will have thriller fans divided and possibly question Sager’s style. Before getting to the spoilers, this was packed with twists. each one had me more shocked as the story went on. The book started off strong and then it kind of tapered off and nothing happened for a bit. Just as i was wondering if anything else exciting was going to happen, things went completely sideways. It is a somewhat slow buildup to more action, but the main characters inner monologue kept the book moving. The book itself is very reminiscent of the Hitchcock thriller, Rear Window, as in watching your neighbors can leave you with more than what your bargained for.

Now to the spoilers

so this has a HUGE supernatural element. When one of the twists came I said “…Sager did not just dump some cheap spooky plot on us right?” BUT, it worked! You gotta go into this with an open mind and this ties into the serial killer plot line very well. This is why I think alot of fans are a bit iffy about this book since it strays away from Sager’s usual formula of things that go bump in the night have a perfect human explanation. Yep there is still a killer but it’s just so strange and you got to suspend beliefs for this one.

Again I really liked this one. Some characters were a tad bland and meant as an obvious decoy but I’m not too mad about. I absolutely sped read this, perfect weekend read AND keeps Sager at the top of the thriller genre.

Mind my own business?

Never.

I definitely don’t want to say too much because I want everyone to have the experience of reading Sager’s latest for themselves, so I’ll just share some of my highlights and dislikes:

• The feel of a detective story mixed with thriller, which I absolutely loved, until the MC wouldn’t leave it alone and let the cops do their job

• Nods to his previous books and Taylor Swift had me squealing

• 🤯 this reaction definitely happened more than once

• Casey was drunk all the time, and I mean ALL THE TIME, which was extremely aggravating and could be a trigger for some readers

• I found a pretty large part of the plot to be unbelievable

The twists were done well, in regular Sager fashion, so I gave it 4 ★s

I think I'd rate this one about 3.5 stars. It was entertaining and I only guessed some of the twists. I wasn't expecting the paranormal element though and it wasn't my favorite. Overall, I still enjoyed the book though and found it an entertaining read. I think Sager is pretty successful in playing with sexist tropes and trying to flip them in the end.

I’m a big fan of all Riley Sager books so I was extremely excited to recieve an arc of his newest novel(thank you netgalley!). But in comparison to the rest of his books, this is probably one of my least favorites out of the six(although I enjoyed them all!). Before reading, the synopsis made me assume I would be reading a pretty typical cliche, but I was pleased to find the premise was quite a bit more unique than I expected. However, parts of the many present twists were pretty easily predictable, and some “shocking moments” seemed to blow over in the course of a few paragraps, and it almost made me wonder if some inclusions were even necessary at all. I enjoyed the different time lines, and they did help to confuse my predictions for a bit. I though the diverse selection of characters was admirable, but I did wish some of them got more attention(Boone and especially Eli!!). Although I was a bit disappointed that this novel seemed to be missing a bit of Sager’s usual magic, the reason I love his books so much is because they seem to defy reason and logic every time, and they draw you in from beginning to end with every individual, outlandish plot. And this was definitely no exception! So overall, I really did enjoy this unique spin on a commonly used trope and urban legend, and I would happily reccommend this to others!