Survive the Night

2.5 generously rounded up. If you want a popcorn thriller this is fine for that. If you can set aside disbelief with a 'It was the 90s' nod fine, *maybe* Charlie isn't the dumbest/most naive woman alive to get in the car with Josh.

I was willing to do that (for better or worse) and pushed through, mostly in a 'watching the car crash' kind of way. Josh kind of amused me.

Then... the (first) 'twist'

I honestly was okay going with Charlie being the dumbest girl alive (male-author syndrome and all that) but Josh too? Is there really any possible way he could reasonably rationalize his choice? If so, absolute trash man. Does not deserve the ending he gets. Because, really?

Then for our (next) twisty twist ... oh guess what it was the boyfriend all along! and here's the thing. Maybe, MAYBE, I could have gone with it, except, my biggest issue with Sagar books is HE DOES THIS ALL THE TIME! I really hoped we'd be safe from 'the heroine sleeps with/has slept with the killer' this time around, but nope. There it is, dumb girl sleeps with a killer once again! Maybe Sagar thinks this is his 'best' OMG that's so freaky twist, but its really getting old. It's happened in all 3 books of his I've read (and I promise this will be the last)

And one other thing, that final spin ( I wont call it a twist because ugh) I thought the constant movie trivia was kind of annoying, but then... that last chapter? *audible sigh*

This was one of those books that was engaging enough as you were reading it, but the moment you do any critical thinking about it it falls apart. Though, I did find the random jumping to other POV characters that started halfway through odd. Until the ending, it really wasn't even necessary (expect perhaps to give us a clue they were more important than they seemed?)

Not my favorite Sager novel… but the ending was a nice surprise.

This is only the second Riley Sager book I have read, I absolutely loved Final Girls sadly Survive The Night didn’t hit the spot as much as I wanted it to.
It was very slow to get going and I didn’t really feel any connection to the main character. I felt that what was happening was a little farfetched. The last part of the book was better and did have me gasping at a few places and I did enjoy this part. Overall it was okay.