Wild and crazy ride that takes place in a locked elevator! The characters are all terrible people and that makes the book even more fun to read! So much madness packed into a tiny space. You will be flying through this one

Sara Hall thinks that she has lucked out with her new job; great pay, benefits, and high power in the finance world. These benefits even make the long hours and commitment to the job worth it.

Years later; Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam, her co-workers are spending a Saturday in a team-building escape room when things start to go really wrong.

How are these two things connected, especially since Sara has been dead for years?

This book is pure mystery and adrenaline, going back and forth between Sara's life and these 4 characters trapped in an elevator. Between the two stories the gaps are slowly filled in as you get drawn into the mystery and care more and more about what is going on.

I love the speed and pacing of this book as I found it perfect for keeping me super interested and invested in the story, but also really well done in how fast information is revealed.

This is a great mystery/thriller and one that I truly raced through to find out what happened.

LOVED THIS BOOK! WHAT AN AMAZING DEBUT!!! So different from any other thrillers with this plot. Trapped in an 'Escape Room' would be my nightmare and clearly this scenario was for the characters. Sara was so relatable, I loved how each chapter went back and forth between Sara and the other four, it definitely kept me guessing until the end!

I really got caught up in this book. Wasn’t sure how I’d like the back in forth but ended up not minding it so much. It wasn’t predictable which is good! I didn’t feel the end was enough but would recommend the book! It was enjoyable and entertaining!

Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for an arc copy of The Escape Room in exchange for an honest review

YES PLEASE!! I am all for this book! I love any thing with escape rooms so this one did not disappoint.

The Escape Room by about a game gone horribly wrong. As any escape room, It turns into survival for your life but this is with colleagues and all the while trying to escape a work exercise. I truly enjoyed this book! I was emailed about being put on the blog tour but life got crazy and I think I have missed the tour dates for this but I love this book!

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What a book. When I decided that I wanted to read this book it looked like a great book. The book was on my kindle for a while before I actually started reading and then I wondered why did I choose this book, it just does not look as good as I thought.
The answer soon came to me. This book sucks you in, you want to find out more and more, what makes these people tick, what circumstances brought them together... This book has lots of questions and just as many secrets that are being kept. All of the secrets are revealed in the lift.
What I loved is the past and the present coming together, the characters as well as the story merging from past to present.

This was a brilliant novel and I just enjoyed reading it.

This was an interesting psychological thriller that left me undecided about how I felt about this book. On one hand, the writing was very good and I loved the ending, but the plot was implausible and it dragged in places So 3 1/2 stars.

4 executives arrive on Sunday afternoon and get into an elevator to go up for a team-building exercise. They soon realize the exercise is an escape room, and it's set in the elevator. They start looking for clues, and as they succeed or fail each of them finds out more about the others until some of their deepest secrets are revealed.
It doesn't end up the way they thought it would in the end, can't say anymore because I don't want to give away any spoilers.

Thanks to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Ok, I see great potential for this author… The storyline was intriguing, the characters and subject matter pulled you in… While the writing might have been just a smidge too naive, I definitely look forward to more from this author, as she grows into her voice and talents! Thanks for the opportunity to read this!

This book started of slow...four colleagues are invited to do an escape room exercise to build team dynamics...what happens in that elevator is second to the real story..The chapters are a back and forth between Sara Hall and what is going on in the elevator. Many lessons are are shown by the author, in particular that greed will always catch up to you. I certainly look forward to reading more from this author.
Thanks to Netgalley for an ARC.

This one is hard to review because it was a book with huge potential that didn't quite deliver. The premise was original and when the author focused on the people trapped in the "escape room" the story was at its best. They rest of the book never came together for me.

This book had twists I didn’t see coming! It grabbed my attention right from the beginning and held it throughout the entire story. Would definitely recommend!

WOW! This is an intense thriller. It’s about members of an elite business firm. The elevator scene brings so much tension between them. All the lies and wrong doings come flying out from the wood work. You stay on the edge of your seat just to see what’s coming next! Nicely done.

I was excited to read this one based on the description and it didn’t disappoint. Full of twists and suspects I couldn’t wait until the end to find out who was behind the escape room. I will definitely be reading more from this author. Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This is a very powwedul debut by Megan Goldin. I'm always interested in escape rooms thrillers and also in escape rooms entertainment.
This thriller takes escape rooms to a different league. Four of the most talented and competitive colleagues of the financial industry are forced to face their darkest secrets when they are trapped together in the escape room. Is it the escape room they need to survive or their own selves?! You have to read this intriguing thriller to find the answer.
I loved loved loved this book. Amazing style and intriguing puzzle.

It seems like I'm one of the few but I did not like this one. I found it very drawn out and unrealistic to the point of being a bit comical. For a thrill, I thought that it had few twists and turns and those that it did have were not the type that made we want to continue to read more. Just not for me.

I saw a review of this book that said it was "utter bananas" and I have to agree. But I also read this entire book in one day, so that's a testament to at least being a very fun kind of bananas.

The book is told through two vectors: Sara, a recent MBA recipient with dreams of joining the top tier of Wall Street, and four prominent investment bankers trapped in an elevator. We follow Sara's slow rise and inevitable fall (just like an elevator - ha!), which aligns with every psychological thriller on the market (if you read a lot of psychological thrillers, you'll know exactly what this means). But then we have the elevator. It's really such a clever idea, revealing the basic outline of the ending for our elevator crew in a weirdly lengthy prologue involving a character who is important for exactly nothing in the grand scheme of things. But the elevator scenes themselves unfold dramatically and believably (at least based on what Sara tells us of these characters). It was such a fun read, compulsory.

My only critiques have to do with logistics. The real reason for the drama comes in very late in the game and very suddenly, making it a little less believable. The perspectives of our elevator characters fluctuate a lot. It doesn't quite feel like omniscience, so every shift from one character's head to another's is a little jarring. I also had some questions about the passage of time; it was unclear just how much time was passing between the events in Sara's vector, and a lot of things felt rushed or sudden but were actually simply years apart, which probably ought to be clarified. When Sara starts talking in terms of years instead of weeks, I was a little bit lost.

All in all, this is a fun ride. There's a really nice balance of psychological thriller with Sara and the tension and fear in the elevator.

"They all had good reason to want one another dead. Here in the elevator, it would be easy."

Four ambitious, successful and overworked investment bankers follow just one more of the relentless orders passed down to them from their superiors, this time requesting that they meet for a last minute team-building exercise. The four, Vincent, Sylvie, Sam, and Jules find themselves trying to decipher codes and solve their way out of a stalled elevator in a vacant construction site. As time passes, tempers flare and secrets come out. And in the end, who, if any will escape?

This was an interesting and enticing thriller, alternating from third person POV to first person, via the voice of Sara Hall, a former co-worker of the four. There are a lot of hints throughout the story as to what's going on, but the details are too complex to figure out entirely, and these made the story an edge-of-your-seat adventure.

As the novel progressed toward the end, and the story unfolded, some of the details were pretty unbelievable, but by that time I was thoroughly caught up in the book to care. I just wanted to know how it was going to end!

Speaking of the end, there were a couple of things that the author didn't tie down firmly, which leads me to believe there's a possibility for a sequel. I'm not sure I would care for that; I really just wanted a more definitive ending to this one. However, I did enjoy the book, and I think it would make an exciting movie.

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

4 stars

This was a debut high on the hype list, and it did not disappoint. This is a thrilling ride from start to finish, so don't make plans once you start reading it, for you'll surely be late.

Wow this one was definitely intense! Maybe a bit too intense for me. I still enjoyed it but could definitely see how it could be too much for some people. Tense from start to finish keeping you breathless and scared this is the one to read if you enjoy scary thrillers that you gotta read in the daylight! I'm not sure I'll ever be able to play an escape game I get too claustrophobic if I feel trapped so this book definitely played to my fears. I got some final destination vibes! All around a good thriller just be prepared!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this advanced eReader copy for my honest review.

Well!! this psychological thriller really was a page turner!. Four co-workers are heading to a scheduled meeting and are taken on an elevator to this meeting. However, things take a turn for the worse when the elevator they are in suddenly stops and they are trapped. They must figure out how to escape by using clues someone is providing them. Can they survive this???