Author: Riley Sager
Genres: Supernatural, Horror, Serial Killer, Thriller, Psychological Thrillers, Suspense, Crime
The book is a fun read and you can’t stop reading it, but I think it started a bit slow, then changed into a crazy fast-paced page-turner.
If you are a fan of the writer then maybe you’ll get disappointed because this book is not on the level of his previous books but don’t worry, it won’t make you hate or stop reading his upcoming books.
I felt like watching a movie that is made to give homage and respect to the movies from the eighties and nineties. The twists and turns are good and some changes that were never taken by the main female were absurd and crazy.
It was a great and useless story at the same time and the only reason and aspect that can be blamed for that is the main character because you are surely going to like others very much and going to feel for them but if you are like me, then I think you are not going to like her in real life either and that is the reason many people are going to hate the story, not because the writer is bad or the story is bad, it is just this character.
And if you think with an open mind then you are going to realize the reason the writer wrote her this way is to make the reader crazy while reading. Because you can finish this book in one sitting, even with a twister story, you can understand what is happening in the first two hours of reading time, and if she is not doing what she is doing in the story, then this book becomes worthless and no one was going to like it.
My final thoughts on this book: sometimes it is okay to read strange and silly stories, it helps your brain relax and forget the reality like being on a bumpy ride.
From The Back Cover:
“THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of New York Times Book Review's "summer reads guaranteed to make your heart thump and your skin crawl"; An Amazon Best of the Month Pick; Named a must-read summer book by The Washington Post, USA Today, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, CNN, New York Post, Good Housekeeping, E!, PopSugar, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and BookRiot.
It’s November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it’s to help care for his sick father—or so he says.
The longer she sits in the passenger seat, the more Charlie notices there’s something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn’t want her to see inside the trunk. As they travel an empty, twisty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly anxious Charlie begins to think she’s sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s jittery mistrust merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?
One thing is certain—Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. Trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse played out on pitch-black roads and in neon-lit parking lots, Charlie knows the only way to win is to survive the night.”
Rating: 80/100
Recommended: 90/100 Yes.
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