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A review by shmadsie
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
3.0
i have to say, riley sager is really unparalleled at setting scenes. he makes such freaking amazing backdrops, such palpable horror backgrounds. every book of his really stands out because of where they ARE. the bartholomew hotel, camp nightingale, baneberry hall, they are places that feel so real by the end of the story that you can't believe they didn't exist before it - and this one, of course, has its own: the mountain oasis lodge. his books feel so cinematic because of that, because you can really picture and feel and get lost in the locations.
but *sigh* this one was his most predictable one yet. literally from the first chapter of the book, i started chanting: don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. but he did, and i am beyond disappointed about it. it's the boyfriend because it's always the boyfriend and it is legitimately the most obvious and cliche and BORING thing in the world. i wasn't super thrilled by the shift of it being marge but he brought me around on that through sheer good writing but he couldn't bring me back after it being robbie because it was so obviously fucking going to be robbie and i legit don't even think of this as a spoiler because if you've ever read or seen any horror, you were already bracing for it from page one and the saddest thing in the world is: you're right.
but *sigh* this one was his most predictable one yet. literally from the first chapter of the book, i started chanting: don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. but he did, and i am beyond disappointed about it. it's the boyfriend because it's always the boyfriend and it is legitimately the most obvious and cliche and BORING thing in the world. i wasn't super thrilled by the shift of it being marge but he brought me around on that through sheer good writing but he couldn't bring me back after it being robbie because it was so obviously fucking going to be robbie and i legit don't even think of this as a spoiler because if you've ever read or seen any horror, you were already bracing for it from page one and the saddest thing in the world is: you're right.