If you look at reviews of Survive the Night, by Riley Sager, people seem to fall into two camps: either they love it unconditionally, or they hate it with a vengeance. Me, I was pretty meh about it. It was entertaining, a good distraction, but didn’t make me blaze through much more than the last 10% of the novel (as I was reading it on my phone and could see what percentage I was on instead of what page). And even that last 10% was really only the last 7% because of ending acknowledgements and “About the Author” stuff. Then, even accounting for that, I only blazed through the end because I wanted to get through it (with a bit of “get it over with, already” thrown in), not because it made my pulse pound.
I guess that makes this sound like a bad book.
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