Just finished! Holy crap this was fantastic! I suggest u get a drink, snack and indeed Lock Every Door because u won’t be emerging until ur done. And you’ll never be the same 😳😬

I received this book through netgalley. Wow. Just wow! I’m obsessed with Riley Sager and have never been disappointed by his books. I couldn’t put this one down and finished it in 3 days.
Jules responds to an add asking for an apartment sitter, and it ends up being at a prestigious building in New York City. Sounds too good to be true, right? The twists and turns and the count down to “now” really kept me interested in this story. Sometimes with books like that, the ending is underwhelming.... not for this book! I’d highly recommend this to anyone who loved Sager’s previous books or just love murder and mystery and intrigue in general!

This is the best thriller I’ve read in 2019! This book is different than other thrillers simply because it was out of the box thinking. When I reach the halfway point of a thriller I can usually figure out the ending, but this one keeps you reading and trying to figure it out until the very end.

Jules is between jobs and needs money. She finds an apartment sitting job that pays $4,000 a month just to live there. Sounds too good to be true right? Soon after she moves in things start to go wrong but when she can’t afford to move elsewhere she has no choice to stay and figure out what’s really going on at the Bartholomew.

Riley Sager is a phenomenal writer. I will definitely read everything of his for now on.

I didn't know where this book was going. When I found out what they were doing I thought wow. This is a very interesting book. I enjoyed reading it.

I received an ARC from the publisher and NetGalley for an honest review.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Dutton, and Riley Sager for the opportunity to read his latest 5 star novel - loved it!

Jules is down on her luck - her live-in boyfriend cheated on her on the same day she lost her job, she has no family left, and no money. When she finds an ad to be an apartment sitter in a gorgeous apartment in a Manhattan building, her prayers are answered. This will be a reset on her life. For 3 months of living in the apartment, she'll get enough money to start over. But there are rules to living in the Bartholomew. She meets Ingrid, another apartment sitter, and is shocked when she disappears the next day. She begins investigating and finds things aren't what they seem.

What a wonderful creepy Gothic-style suspense book - I couldn't put it down. Just like everything Sager writes, this is another 5 start book destined for the top of the charts. Don't miss it!

Set in New York City, Riley Sager’s latest thriller Lock Every Door follows Jules Larsen, a young woman who has had a major run of bad luck. She recently lost her job, discovered her live-in boyfriend was cheating on her, and has subsequently ended up sleeping on her best friend’s couch. Jules desperately needs her luck to change so that she can get back on her feet financially, and when she sees an ad on Craigslist seeking apartment sitters at the iconic Bartholomew building near Central Park, she applies immediately and can’t believe her good luck when she is hired. The rules are a little intense: Jules is not allowed to have visitors, she must sleep in the apartment every night, and she is only allowed to speak to other residents if they speak to her first, but the $1,000 a week paycheck makes it well worth it for Jules.

Jules almost immediately befriends another apartment sitter named Ingrid. Ingrid confides in Jules that strange things happen in the Bartholomew and that she doesn’t feel safe there. Soon after this conversation, Ingrid goes missing. Jules is told that Ingrid abruptly quit in the middle of the night and moved out, but Jules is suspicious and starts digging, trying to figure out what really happened. When Jules learns that Ingrid isn’t the first apartment sitter to go missing, she starts to think that her dream job might actually be more of a nightmare.

I really liked Jules right away and so was constantly torn between wanting her to stick around and figure out what’s going on at the Bartholomew and wanting her to hurry up and get the heck out of there before something happened to her.

The creepy atmosphere Sager creates was also a huge draw for me. The Bartholomew itself has a dark, almost Gothic feel to it, with its gargoyles on the exterior and its wallpaper that appears to change from flowers to watchful eyes if stared at too long. Its physical appearance combined with its mysterious and rumored dark past truly made it feel like something out of a horror story and had my skin crawling as I read.

Another big draw for me was the way Sager weaves together his story through the use of a combination of flashbacks and chapters set in the present to show where Jules is and then to backtrack and show how she got to that point. That technique created so much tension and suspense. That coupled with numerous plot twists, had me just flying through the pages. The plot twists were a wild ride too, culminating in a reveal that was even more disturbing than I could have possibly anticipated.

Riley Sager is quickly becoming my go-to author whenever I’m in the mood for a thriller that will keep me on the edge of my seat. As much as I enjoyed both Final Girls and The Last Time I Lied though, Sager’s latest, Lock Every Door, is by far, my favorite of his books yet. It has everything I love in a thriller – a protagonist that is likeable and easy to root for, lots of tension and suspense, plenty of plot twists to keep me guessing, and an atmosphere that draws me in and creeps me out all at the same time. If you’re into thrillers, I highly recommend giving Sager’s books a try.

3/5 Stars. This one didn't grip me as much as Sager's earlier books. The twists were good but maybe just a bit too far-fetched for me this time out. Definitely a creepy, atmospheric read though.

Riley Sager has been delivering taut, psychological thrillers for the past couple of years. Each entry is its own story, and yet each is progressively better. LOCK EVERY DOOR has been compared to Ira Levin's ROSEMARY'S BABY, and with good reason. The tension and the atmosphere are as much a character in this story as anybody else fully fleshed out.
It is hard to pick up this novel and not devour it in a single sitting. The twist, of course, in Riley Sager fashion, is hard to see coming. But once it all clicks into place, it is both satisfying and jaw-dropping. This is one of the summer blockbuster books that should be read in every book club, and by every beach-goer that wants a little frost with their sun.

What an absolutely incredible book! I devoured this book in one sitting because I simply just could not get enough.

I immediately empathized with Jules in this story since I also come from an incredibly impoverished background. I've heard some people criticize that they don't understand how someone could fall prey to such a situation, but the thing that everyone is ignoring is what would you're under so much debt and have NO other options. What would you do if you don't know where your next meal is going to come from and you can't keep a roof over your head. When this is what you're faced with, it's no surprise that you will leap at an opportunity like the one Jules was presented with.

This was my first book by this author, and now I am determined to go read his other books.

Thank you to Dutton and NetGalley for the eARC. This did not influence my review. All opinions are my own.

My full review will be up on my blog on July 9th as part of the blog tour, which is hosted by Fantastic Flying Book Club.

Another page-turner from Riley Sager! If you're looking for a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat, this one is for you!

Okay, it’s official! This is my favorite book from Sager yet. I still haven’t read Final Girls, so maybe I can’t technically make that statement, buuuut I was just really into the “haunted fancy elusive old NYC apartment building” vibe from the very first page!

It’s atmospheric and a fast page turner which was just what I needed to bust the slump! I can see this being a favorite read this summer for thriller fans.

I just started reading mystery/thrillers a little over a year ago so this is the perfect “not so scary it gives you nightmares” read.

*Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this complimentary ebook in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own

This was such a confusing novel! But I liked it was that way so it could keep me guessing. Plus, the insidious feel to it made it very creepy and had me looking over my shoulder.

This novel was slow. I didn't think much was really going on. It felt kind of loose? Like it was going nowhere. I was eh about it for most of the time. I almost DNF'd this one but I pushed through.

I did enjoy the missing girls plot, as well as the hidden hierarchy it presented. It definitely showed that when you're privileged, you'll get everything, but also, maybe not everything. Living in The Bartholomew meant you were basically somebody of status or an apartment sitter, who'd get paid thousands of dollars for living there. But it also meant following all of these rules that were difficult to uphold.

The characters were interesting and intriguing. We have Jules, who's the new apartment sitter; Ingrid, another apartment sitter and new friend of Jules; Dylan, another sitter who's kinda quiet; Nick, who's a surgeon who's lived in The Bartholomew all his life; Leslie, the manager and the one who enforces all of the crazy rules; Charlie, the doorman who's kinda friendly; Greta, an author who doesn't like to be bothered at all; Marianne, kind of upbeat and seems friendly. There are many others but these are the ones that play such big roles in this story.

Throughout the novel, I had no idea which character to trust so I was doubting every single one. It seemed like everyone had an ulterior motive. I actually liked that I couldn't rely on anyone. It kept my heart racing.

After half of the book, things picked up and I was very invested in wanting to figure out what was going on. The answer left me completely speechless, not knowing what to think, or how to process it all. Let me tell you, it was beyond twisted! Also, I was so beyond happy to see that some of the characters got exactly what they deserved.

The author introduced different topics in this novel that I appreciated. While this novel was a mystery in every angle, it introduced investigating grief in various ways and loneliness.

Lock Every Door is an insidious and twisted novel, filled with confusion. You'll feel like you're playing a game of guessing. It kept me entertained once it picked up. I just wish the book had been at a faster pace from the beginning since I just didn't care much for it.

I had really high expectations going into this one. I enjoyed "Final Girls" and loved "The Last Time I Lied". I saw the trend that Riley was getting better with each book, so expected this one to knock it out of the park. Alas, it did not.

It wasn't until the 50% mark that it started getting interesting. The first half is a real slow burn of getting to know the characters and the Bartholomew's history. Then it picks up and goes for a faster clip until the end. My main problem? It was highly predictable. Once you read the blurb comparing it to "Rosemary's Baby", you can pretty much figure out how things are going to shake out. I will give it one thing, in this regard: the twist of what was really going on in the Bartholomew was one I didn't see coming. So there's that.

I also didn't love Jules' backstory. What happened to her parents was over-the-top, and made the two parents seem like idiots for HOW they went about doing what they did. And the unresolved plotline of another of Jules' family members just felt like a huge macguffin. If I'm being honest, there wasn't a whole lot of character development going on in this book, so I didn't connect with any of the characters...even Jules. They all just felt like stock characters serving the highly predictable plot.

This is definitely the weakest of Sager's work, by far. I just hope that his next book returns him to true form.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Dutton for providing a free eGalley of this book for this review! Thank you also to Fantastic Flying Book Club for hosting this blog tour and allowing me to be a part of it. I had an amazing time and was so thankful to read this book.

Now on to the real review.

I personally was a little hesitant to read this one because it was classified as "horror" and for me that means supernatural killings and just scary stuff. Well, thank goodness that's not what happened, although I will say that it was definitely a thriller, and one that I was not expecting to like as much as I did.

I related so much to the main character Jules because of everything that she had gone through. Yes, a lot of what she did go through before this point was pretty extreme and something that I can't relate to, but the other things like drowning in debt and feeling like one little mistake is what cost her everything... Yeah I can relate to that. So I could totally understand why the opportunity to watch an apartment for $4000 a month was something she totally jumped on. I would have done the same. Being paid to live in this swanky apartment while getting paid a crap ton of
money to do so? Sign me up. I mean she said it so eloquently.

“Every so often, life offers you a reset button. When it does, you need to press it as hard as you can.” - Jules

Then the rules came about. No visitors ever. No sleeping away from the apartment ever. No disturbing the residents. Didn't seem too unreasonable, but the one question that started everything was interesting, and probably should have been the moment to question everything.

“Would you consider yourself to be an inquisitive person?” - Leslie Evelyn during Jules' interview process

From that moment, the clues start coming together and we are left to find out what really goes on behind the doors of the infamous Bartholomew.

There were parts of this journey where I wanted to shake Jules for being so obvious! If she was trying to figure out what happened to potential friend Ingrid, she could have at least done it subtlety, right? If she wanted to stay innocent to prying eyes, she definitely didn't do it right. But I also understood, because when you have a sister that went missing years prior, and there's still no word on whether or not she's actually alive, you want to do everything in your power to make sure history doesn't repeat itself. Maybe that's what she was thinking when she started digging into things she was told not to.

I read this book in the span of two days, staying up into the wee hours of the morning to finish it because I had to know how it ended. While the story may seem to go in one direction, it twists you into a completely different one, and yet it all makes sense in the end. I was left feeling like I didn't know who to trust, despite friendly appearances. I was trying to figure out what was going on myself, figure out what was it that made Jules and Ingrid and others to feel like something was "off" about the Bartholomew. Could the history of a building really make it seem off? I say yes, especially if that history isn't as ancient as one thinks.

Sager did an amazing job at keeping me on the edge of my seat. I was waiting to be freaked out from the very beginning, and there were many times throughout the novel that I kept looking at the shadows around me, wondering if someone was watching me. I have a hyperactive imagination, and I just felt like something was going to go terribly wrong. I love it when books can take me out of my reality and I feel like I'm immersed in the story, and that's what I felt when reading this. I highly recommend this to anyone that wants a thrill in their lives.

Extremely gripping and thrilling new novel from Sager. I picked this up as a before bedtime read and found myself reading until 2am because I literally could not put it down! The action-packed plot develops at a fast-pace that isn't overwhelming, and Sager is smart with his placement of clues and red herrings. Jules is an engaging narrator, and one you'll definitely be rooting for throughout. Really fun read that i'll definitely be recommending.

4.5 Stars
This was my first book from Riley Sager and I have to say I'm impressed. While there were some plot holes and characters that didn't really get fleshed out as well as I would have liked, overall, I really enjoyed it, and I found myself flying through the book, meaning it was definitely an enjoyable read. Highly recommend and I will be checking out other books by this author.

Wow! This is really a book filled with intrigue, twists and turns that will take your breath away, guaranteed! Call in to work because you will not be able to put this book down. A must read thriller for 2019! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 stars from me!

FANTASTIC!! Riley sager does it again with another thriller I couldn’t put down!! I have a bad habit of guessing the end of books and movies and I was so wrong! Excellent read!!

Riley Sager has become one of my favorite authors. His first (Final Girls) is probably still my absolute favorite, but I've loved all three of his books. This one (the third) is a little different in tone but as suspenseful and chilling as the other two.

Part of the difference is that we don't know entirely what's going on. There are a bunch of possibilities (I had my imaginary fortune bet on a Rosemary's Baby-type deal) but the actual answer is not something I would've ever guessed.

If you're in the mood for something that will make actual shivers run up and down your spine, this is for you. Highly recommended.

In an exclusive Manhattan building, a down and out young woman finds the apartment sitting job of her dreams, but things are not as they seem and her dream becomes a nightmare. This creepy, twisty thriller definitely had me checking to make sure my door was locked.