The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Escape Room
AUTHOR: Megan Goldin @megangoldinauthor
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press @stmartinspress
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: July 30, 2019
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I really enjoyed The Night Swim. My group was reading this one to discuss so I was happy to read!
💜 What I liked:
- There was a wild sense of not knowing what was going on and since the book switches between the “escape room” and the past, you get slow glimpses as to what happened in the past to cause this.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- There wasn’t as much of a shocker ending as usual for a thriller. Also, I was hoping for more puzzles in the room.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- The story is told between the past with Sarah Hall, and the present with her colleagues Vincent, Jules, Sylvia, and Sam as they must work to free themselves from the Escape Room.
🚦 The Ending:
- Satisfying
💬 The Narrator:
- January LaVoy and Ramon De Ocampo do such a good job of being clear in their narration as well as separating the characters concisely.
💭 Consider if you like:
- Thrillers that jump from past to present.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary:
Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.
In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style―but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost.
Invited to participate in an escape room challenge as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high-rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition: they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival.
Trapped in the dark, the colleagues must put aside their bitter rivalries and work together to solve cryptic clues to break free. But as the game begins to reveal the team’s darkest secrets, they realize there’s a price to be paid for the terrible deeds they committed in their ruthless climb up the corporate ladder. As tempers fray, and the clues turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: which one of them will kill in order to survive?