Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

59 reviews

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Sexual content, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

growintogardens's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I figured everything out at the beginning of the book, so a bit disappointed, but it's got some good tense moments. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

zarakoconnor's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book was amazing. The beginning is a little bit slow but from the 50% mark it picks up like crazy. Would have been 5 stars if

it didn’t have weird anti-satanist elements

but other than that I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

My downfall will be that I’ll read anything with Riley Sager’s name on the cover just because I’ve liked a couple of his books. But good god, that doesn’t mean he should be allowed to write just anything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Medical trauma

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

the main character’s sister is a missing person, has nothing to do with the actual plot itself and it is not resolved. It’s just something brought up a lot.

romorel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Another Sager title under my belt, this story was another compelling and suspenseful experience.

The hints build comfortably, but unlike other Sager thrillers my experience was simply “being along for the ride”. This book took twists and turns I absolutely did not see coming, but once uncovered made me nod appreciatively at the well paced “Chekhov’s Guns”. The execution was fantastic. 

So much so that I’m writing this at 1:50AM on a Thursday and given myself a headache from staying up too late. 

Sager’s characters are easy to connect with, though one thing I often notice with his protagonists is that I have no idea what they look like besides being “unremarkable” brunettes.

Overall a very satisfying story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Chronic illness, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Car accident, and Pandemic/Epidemic

dizpig's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, and Dementia

Minor: Stalking

matildaesandell's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book was so creepy, if I ever see the Barthomolew I’ll be running 👋🏼  this book nailed it with the icky feelings and the cliffhangers at the end of the chapters. I definitely found myself in that position where all I wanted was to help the FMC, which is absolutely a good sign! I didn’t guess any of plot twists and found the story very creative and unique. Definitely enjoyed this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Confinement

doodlebeanz's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I was pretty let down by this book. After reading Sager's 'Only One Left', I was SO excited to pick up any other book by him that I could get my hands on and Lock Every Door was available via Libby and I jumped at the opportunity. Unfortunately, it fell relatively flat for me. It had so much potential which was the biggest let down to me personally. Sometimes books just suck and don't have any redeeming factors, but this book DID!

I could see the plot twist a mile away, nearly figuring it all out before I even got halfway through the book which was odd considering Only One Left kept me guessing until the bitter end... maybe I put too much pressure on this book and comparing it to it's book sibling is wrong to do, but it's impossible for me not to do! 

This book, like many thrillers nowadays, was tied up nicely and too quickly.

Like what happened to Jane? Why do we never find out? Also, it was just so easy for Nick to kill himself... like oh how coincidental that he decided to do that...

I don't know, it just felt too perfect in the end and it bothered me. I also would've loved a

chapter or two from Nick's POV. I love a dual pov story, and I think that may have been what was lacking with this story. I don't know if Sager often does dual/multiple POVs in his books, but this one would have benefited from someone else's POV since Jules' got repetitive and her naivety started to irk me.

That being said, the book was good; it kept me entertained and I couldn't put it down, I also didn't find myself skimming as much as I usually do. It didn't scare me, it didn't really freak me out *too* much, but the writing of such a spooky and creepy building was incredible! I also love that it's based on the Dakota since I see that building daily and now it looks so different to me lol!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

badwolfbae's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

I thoroughly enjoyed this, and I look forward to reading more from Riley Sager. The only thing that kept this from five stars was the ending was a little too neatly wrapped up with the final 'six months later' segment. I would have rather seen things happen in the time rather than just skipping ahead. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

behindherpages's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Self harm, Suicide, and Car accident