Thank you to Dutton and Netgalley for the ARC!

I was so excited to receive an ARC for Riley Sager's 3rd novel. I enjoyed the first two and this one did not disappoint! I don't want to give anything away since the book doesn't hit shelves until July 2, but if you enjoy a fun thriller then plan to grab a copy for some fun summer reading!

This is the first book by Riley Sager that I have and t will absolutely not be the last. I loved this book. The story had me hooked from the beginning and I literally couldn't put it down. I read in 24 hours because I had to know how it ended immediately and it did not disappoint. It met everything I love about suspense thrillers and had me guessing all the way to the end. I loved the main character Jules, and thought she was extremely relatable so I was able to connect with the story she was going through. I would highly recommend this book if you are wanting something suspenseful and has a great twist at the end.

"No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most high-profile and mysterious buildings."

Sounds simple, right? What could possibly go wrong?

Thankfully, quite a bit. This is a compulsively readable novel from Riley Sager, a favourite of mine since his debut, Final Girls, which was such a fresh take on the typical ‘slasher’ that I almost cheered when I read it. When authors can take a trope and make it feel as if you’re discovering it for the first time – that, my dear friends, is talent.

Although I always hesitate to pronounce any book the author’s “best yet”, well… I might make an exception? Because Lock Every Door was just so deliciously addictive.

As you can see from the blurb above, our heroine Jules Larsen has taken a new job as an “apartment sitter” in the Bartholomew, a fancy-schmancy building in one of Manhattan’s most coveted neighborhoods. Adding to the building’s appeal is is that it was the setting for one of Jules' favourite childhood books, Heart of a Dreamer, a book she shared with her sister before she disappeared eight years before.

As you can imagine, Jules is pretty excited to be standing in the pages of a book she loves so much – and to feel some connection to her beloved sister, so she takes the job without much introspection – even agreeing to the arcane rules – such as “no visitors” and “no talking to the other residents”.

Jules becomes close with another apartment-sitter, Ingrid. Ingrid isn’t quite so warm and fuzzy about the Bartholomew, and spills her worries about the building’s dark past, and what might be going on in the present. When Ingrid vanishes in the night, leaving only an echo of a scream, Jules feels compelled to find her, and sets out to do her own research into the Bartholomew, its residents, and what secrets the walls might be hiding.

At its heart, this is a story about relationships – between sisters, between friends, strangers, lovers, killers and victims, to buildings and to fantasies, between our bodies and our hearts. The connections between those things, between us and our past, between privilege and poverty – it’s all so tenuous but can feel so bloodied.

This is a wild ride, and you should let Sager take you on it. He knows exactly what he’s doing. I had absolutely no idea what the denouement would bring, and was that ever a treat.

One of the best thrillers of the year, no doubt. Enjoy.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. I appreciate it!

Absolutely blown away by Lock Every Door! Riley Sager’s novel tells the story of the Bartholomew, a haunted, yet revered apartment building right on the edge of Central Park in NYC. Jules is hitting a rough point in her life – no money, no job, had to move out of her boyfriend’s apartment when they broke up. But she finds the deal of a lifetime when an apartment in the Bartholomew is looking for an apartment sitter for 12 weeks at $1000/week. Jules can’t turn it down! But almost immediately she finds out that things within the Bartholomew aren’t what they seem.

I flew through this book. Riley’s writing had me dying to come back for more, and I was thinking about this book constantly after reading it. The apartment building was spooky, and written just so. I also wasn’t able to predict the ending, which I really liked about it as well. This was easily four stars for me – great book!

I have not been disappointed when I pick up a Riley Sager book. You open it and are strapped down for a great ride. The characters are great in this story but they take a backseat to the main character, the Bartholomew . It is described in such detail that you feel as if you are there. From it's dumbwaiter to it's creepy wallpaper and it's gargoyles, it takes center stage.

If something is too good to be true, it usually is and Jules will find out the hard way. Getting a job to be an apartment sitter and being paid very nicely is a dream. (More like a nightmare) What happened to all the sitters before her?

I felt a Rosemary's Baby vibe with the story. There are some interesting people lulling about this building. I loved how the story was told to us in five days time. It added to the suspense with it's past and present take.

Another winner from Riley Sager. He is the stuff nightmares are made of.

Thanks to Netgalley and Penguin for an advance copy of this book. Make sure you pick it up when it comes out in July.

I am so glad I got to read an early copy!
I have never read a Riley Sager book so I knew nothing of what a book of his might entail.
This was nuts! The Bartholomew is NOT a place I'd ever want to live. Right up front, there are too many rules that lead to too many secrets needing to be uncovered. This book kept me on the edge of my seat and it didn't even cross my mind the twisted way it went! So creepy, such good writing and a very suspenseful plot!

Loved this book!!! Riley Sager always writes complex female characters and this book is no different! The twists always leave me surprised and I consider myself to be quite the armchair detective. The pacing and suspense buildup were wonderful and I had to stop myself from reading it well into the night. If you're looking for a well-written thriller this summer, this is it!

Thanks to NetGalley and Dutton Publishers for the digital ARC of this book! Publish date is 7/2/19.

Jules is at a low point in her life. She lost her job and boyfriend on the same day and she’s totally broke. So when she lands a high-paying job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, a historic building that’s home to the elite, she doesn’t really think twice. Happenings in the building get more and more suspicious and nerve racking. Especially when her new friend and fellow apartment sitter disappears. Now Jules is determined to find out the truth about the rumors she’s heard about the Bartholomew. After all, don’t they say that if something seems too good to be true it probably is?

This was one of my most anticipated reads of 2019 and I was most definitely not disappointed! It was suspenseful, eerie, sinister and I never could’ve predicted the ending. I can’t say much more than that you’ve got to read this book!

Lock Every Door was absolutely wild! I thought that Riley Sager took the cake with The Last Time I Lied, but this book was even twist-ier and intense.

Jules is desperately in need of a place to live and money to live off of. After a bad breakup and losing her job, she accepts a job apartment sitting in a posh NYC apartment building with a ton of rules. Things seem amiss as other apartment sitters begin to go missing, and Jules is racing against the clock to save herself and others.

This pageturner is a first purchase for adult collections where Sager's previous titles have been popular or where there is a demand for thrillers. Sager has a knack for fast-paced, quick reads that satisfy.

Getting paid to house sit isn’t out of the ordinary. So what could be wrong with being paid to stay in one of the most luxurious apartments of Manhattan, overlooking Central Park. If anything, it sounds like a dream come true for Jules. Jobless, homeless, down on her luck, She’s in need of a fresh start. This might just be the opportunity for her to get herself back on her feet. It’s perfect, or is it just too good to be true?

I’m really diggin’ Riley Sager’s thrillers. Each new novel also brings forth new creative plot lines - with twists that a reader just can’t see coming. In each of Sager’s novels I’ve read, the main character always comes to the novel with a shady past which adds an element of distrust in the main character, but also an element of empathy for what the main character has already endured.

This story might just take the tops of Sagers novels for me. As this story unfolds, it turns into something completely different and the plot line thickens and becomes more sinister as you continue to dig deeper. As a reader, you don’t want to know much more than that, just delve into it and see for yourself.

This is definitely a second half book. After hitting that half way mark, this book turns into something very unexpected and I couldn’t put it down. A very creative, fun read. Definitely worth a read!

Thank you to @Netgalley, @riley_sager, and @DuttonBooks for providing me an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Riley Sager is one of my favorite thriller authors and has been ever since I received an ARC of a Final Girls a few years ago. So I was thrilled to receive an advanced copy of his latest - Lock Every Door - via a Netgalley.
Jules just received the opportunity of a lifetime - to be an apartment sitter at the notorious Bartholomew building in NYC. She’ll be getting paid $12k to stay in apartment for three months. And after losing a job and a boyfriend, she accepts, although this seems too good to be true.
And it is.
Jules is thrust into a tangled web of missing persons, secrets, and the dark past of the building itself. Reluctant to leave due to needing the money, she resolves to stay and figure it out - despite what it may end up costing her.
This was a fun, twisty, edge of your seat thriller that Sager does so well.

Absolutely thrilling!! Any fan of the suspense/thriller genre and gothic horror will enjoy Lock Every Door.

I’ve been hooked on Sager since Final Girls, and I’ll recommend his books until he loses his key feature - keeping me on the edge of my seat and surprised at every twist and turn.

4/5 stars because I there was one aspect of the story I felt was too obvious.

Thank you Net Galley & Dutton. I can’t wait for the release to recommend it to all of my thriller lovers.

Lock Every Door was a creepy, weird, and sinister thrill ride! Sager is wonderful at throwing crazy unexpected twists into his work that make the books jaw-dropping! His writing style is so eloquent and absorbing, and made this book really hard to put down.

Jules Larson receives an offer that seems too good to be true - receiving thousands of dollars to live in an upscale NYC apartment with sweeping city views. As she settles into the Bartholomew, she begins to realize that something strange, and possibly dangerous, is happening behind closed doors. Her curiosity leads her into a terrifying chain of events. What she discovers is truly alarming, and is not what is seems!

I've read all of Riley Sager's novels, and this was by far the best! It gave me American Horror Story vibes, and had a similar disturbance factor. I loved the NYC setting, and the residents of the Bartholomew were perfectly placed in the storyline. This is a book you won't want to miss! Thanks to Netgalley and Dutton for the early review copy!

It’s been awhile since I read a creepy book! Overall an entertaining read about apartment sitters mysteriously disappearing from a well-known apartment building in NYC. At times I was on the edge of my seat not knowing how this one would turn out. The first 85% was great; I found the reason for all the disappearances to be much less exciting than anticipated. But overall I found this very entertaining and a fun break from what I usually read. A lot of readers will enjoy this one! Thanks to Net Galley and Riley Sager for the opportunity to review. It comes out July 2!

This is my first book by Riley Sager although Final Girls has been sitting on my shelf since the first time I ever subscribed to Book of the Month (I don’t think I’ve actually read a single one of the my BOTM picks yet... oops). This is a story about Jules and her opportunity to spend 3 months living in an incredible apartment in Manhattan that overlooks Central Park. While also making some serious bank... sounds easy enough right? Jules soon learns that things at The Bartholomew are a little off much like the many reports about the place online would tell you. This book was fast paced and at one point I was mad because I thought that Jules and I had cracked the secret and It was so unoriginal. But I was wrong and so was she. At one point it I actually googled the book she mentions Heart of a Dreamer (sadly, not real) and The Bartholomew (there’s a St. Bartholomew’s Church, could have similar vibes) because I wanted to experience both for myself. For me this book was Haunting of Hill House meets Urban Legends. I gave it 4 stars and would recommend to any of my thriller loving friends. Lock Every Door comes out on July 2 and you should get a copy or get on that library request list right now!

WOW!!! RIley Sager does it again. He has quickly become one of my favorite authors, and this newest title blew me away. Warning - light spoilers ahead. A hint of spoiler, if you will.

In an inventive twist on the idea of "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is", the story follows a twenty-something named Jules as she stumbles upon an opportunity that appears to be just that. After a humiliating breakup, the loss of her job and apartment, she responds to an ad looking for an apartment sitter. The building just happens to be one close to her heart - the Bartholomew, an NYC legend that was featured in her favorite childhood book. The pay is exorbitant, and she is a perfect fit. Despite her best friends skepticism and the Batholomew's storied past, she takes the job and moves in. When her new friend that also lives in the building disappears suddenly under suspicious circumstances, Jules starts to dig. However, this is made difficult by the other tenants' reluctance to speak, and the oppressive rules for apartment sitters (including no visitors, no spending the night away, and not asking questions of other residents).

As Jules begins to find clues that may lead her to the truth, she finds herself feeling more and more in danger. Of what, she does not now, but she is obsessively driven to find out what is really going on inside the storied walls. When I got to what I thought was the twist, I found it a bit ludicrous. But then, the truth was revealed and I thought the red herring was genius - it made a sort of sense, and detracted me from the truth, not that I would have ever guessed it on my own. Fast-paced and delightful, this is a must-read!

Wow is all I can say! What a creepy, fantastic, page turning, hold your breath rollercoaster ride of a book!! Lock Every Door will make you literally lock every door. I had no clue of the twist this book took in the end! Definitely a book that is a must read!!!

Riley Sager is starting to feel like a sure thing when it comes to top-notch popcorn thrillers.

Like Final Girls and The Last Time I Lied, this is an eerie, propulsive, wild ride of a book that is almost impossible to put down.

This is a more linear, less complex book than Sager’s first two offerings. Though just as compulsively readable, it simply has less to unpack. It’s also much easier to sort who’s good and who’s bad in this book pretty much from the outset, though the story does contain a good twist that I didn’t see coming.

To that end, Sager keeps you guessing until the last few chapters of the novel. While the solve here feels a touch more preposterous than in the author’s first two books, the believability quotient didn’t really matter much to me as a reader. And while it strains credulity to think this scenario possible, there is (as the characters themselves discover) a way for this to happen if the ultra creepy circumstances are just right.

Loaded with a giddy sense of menace and harrowing suspense, Sager’s third offering is another winning effort for the author. 3-for-3 is an excellent track record. Keep ‘em coming, “Riley.”

Riley Sager has done it again, readers! Lock Every Door kept me absolutely riveted from beginning to end. The book opens with an immediate hook as we find Jules Larsen hospitalized and begging not to be sent back to the Bartholomew. We then begin a countdown from six days prior when Jules first agreed to become an apartment sitter at the luxurious and exclusive Bartholomew building in New York City.

Jules meets a glittering array of Bartholomew residents, but all is not as charmed as it seems on the surface. With each passing day it becomes clear that danger is lurking for Jules in this historic high rise. What is really going on in the Bartholomew and will Jules figure it out before it's too late?

I don't want to say too much so as not to spoil all the gripping details, but rest assured this novel will keep you guessing to the very end. This is a suspenseful and compelling read that I highly recommend for all fans of thrills and chills. Thank you to Dutton Books and NetGalley for this advance reader copy in exchange for my honest review.