Fun book with a very interesting concept. It is popular today to visit escape rooms and this is a fun experience too. Reading this is up with the times!

Have you heard of the escape rooms? They are places where you go and by the choices you make you work your way through a type of maze to escape a room. This book is the same concept just in book form. You read a part of the book then by doing a puzzle or solving a riddle you figure out where to go next in the book,.



Some of the puzzles are really easy others are a bit harder. The book is kind of fun for the puzzle solver in all of us. The book did keep me entertained even if the story was a bit silly to me.



I received this book from the Author or Publisher via Netgalley.com to read and review.

A great book with some really tricky puzzles. A great alternative to a day out in a real room escape and a lot cheaper too!

This is really fun adventure and allows you experience the thrill and challenge of an escape room in the palm of your hand. The puzzles will keep you guessing and the accompanying story will grip you to the end.

This as an interesting concept. I found some of the puzzles to be really neat, but others not so much. The writing was rough, and I feel things could have flowed better.

Hmmm… Designed as a mix of choose-your-own adventure, and reportage of a person trapped in an escape-room experience, this is an interesting experiment. A journalist on the trail of the most evil and manipulative economical entrepreneur of our time (with the world's least likely Albanian name) is dosed with a deadly gas, and must get through the bloke's security system to confront him for the antidote. The opening puzzles – especially when you remember you're seeing them as well as relying on the author to describe them – are very, very easy; but it soon turns into using ones that are impossible in e-book format (which it isn't published as – mine was a netgalley), and then ones that are impossible to guess without clues. The heavy use of flashback to his back story proves how little there really is here, and some puzzles are ones we get but she doesn't, which kind of defeats the logic of it all, but not having met any similar books I did have some small enjoyment here.

LOVE the idea - but the execution was lacking. Some of the puzzles were interesting, some of them were not. Also, some of the writing was choppy making the actual story hard to follow as well. I imagine the author was trying to capture the intensity of the countdown but it resulted in a difficult literary experience as a reader.

The Escape Book has the concept of an Escape Room, but in a book, how cool does that sound?

I've done a couple of escape rooms, and I'm proud to say my escape rate is at 100% (though twice really close with either 17 or 2 seconds left). I quite like them, and combining them with a book made me really curious, but slightly afraid also, because of course, I'd never read an escape room.

There's text until the main character reaches a puzzle, which you will then have to solve in order to know at what page you have to continue reading. In my electronic review copy, numbering was off, which made it harder to find the right pages. There was also the limitation that the solution to each and every puzzle is a number. While I understand, it would have been nice to have some more variation (which isn't thrown in until the very end). However, the story in between the puzzles is repetitive, vague and at times I wanted to smack her because she spends a lot of time pondering where she should be going through the maze.

A fun book for a rainy afternoon, but it couldn't really grasp the escape room feel.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

I'm sorry, but I just couldn't finish this. I think this would be a great book to physically have and I think that would also make the puzzles more fun. Trying to do this on a digital device was so frustrating that I ultimately couldn't finish this. I think the puzzles are clever and would definitely be interested in doing them from a physical book. I could definitely see buying this for myself or anyone else that enjoys problem solving, puzzles, or enjoys the actual Escape Rooms, but I would 100% not recommend getting a digital version of this.

I'm giving this book 2 stars for the fact that I can tell this would be really fun, and the puzzles are definitely challenges. Unfortunately, since I wasn't able to finish it due to the format I had, I can't give this any more than that.

Received via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.