The Escape Room
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
3.6
(673)
Megan Goldin
"One of my favorite books of the year." —Lee Child“Cancel all your plans and call in sick; once you start reading, you'll be caught in your own escape room—the only key to freedom is turning the last page!” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)"A sleek, well-crafted ride." —The New York TimesIn Megan Goldin's unforgettable debut, The Escape Room, four young Wall Street rising stars discover the price of ambition when an escape room challenge turns into a lethal game of revenge.Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style—but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost.Invited to participate in an escape room challenge as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high-rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition: they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival.Trapped in the dark, the colleagues must put aside their bitter rivalries and work together to solve cryptic clues to break free. But as the game begins to reveal the team’s darkest secrets, they realize there’s a price to be paid for the terrible deeds they committed in their ruthless climb up the corporate ladder. As tempers fray, and the clues turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: which one of them will kill in order to survive?
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Author
Megan Goldin
Pages
352
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2019-07-30
ISBN
1250219671 9781250219671
Ratings
Google: 5
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"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"
Sher Free✌️
"3½☆
Exciting and difficult to put down. However, likable characters are few and I found the ending to be a tad disappointing."
Michael Prentice
"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"
Angelica Ashley
"My continued migraines meant that I listened to this on audiobook 🎧 which was very well done with 2 readers (one male and one female) with great different voices for all the characters. To its credit it did keep my interest throughout & I listened to it in one sitting. However, I felt there was a lot of telling not showing in parts and a lot of parts that could have been streamlined. This book has an interesting premise of beginning at the end (although at this point we don’t know who lives or dies until the penultimate chapter) after gathering these 4 members of a high powered business firm under the guise of competing in an escape room challenge that ends up trapping them in an elevator. (The book alternated between chapters called “The Elevator” which detail the 4 colleagues in an elevator’s supposed Escape Room which were more thrilling/ & chapters titled Sara Hall, an up and coming post graduate student beginning with her hiring by this firm.) These chapters were more character driven, slower & at times lengthier yet I sometimes enjoyed these more because I learned more about Sarah (who has likable qualities) as well as the other 4 characters but other times these chapters frustrated me because they slowed down the book’s momentum. Like any psychological thriller one must suspend one’s disbelief (& this one more than most at times) but it all adds up and as more misdeeds, secrets and lies pile up, it doesn’t seem too far fetched with these particular 4 unlikable characters in the business world. These 4 are locked in the elevator and the main plot/ thriller (a la Lucy Foley’s The Guest List) is more gratifying because you see them go after each other trapped in the confined space of the elevator and not more innocent people. So many secrets revealed in that elevator!! I thought The Escape Room was certainly a good escape on audio 🎧 especially with a migraine ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2"
M C
Melissa Craver
"This book was hard to get through. The characters were not very likable and the elevator scenes seemed repetitive. "
Jaleesa L
"All right, I gave this book about 80 pages & it feels like way more of an inside look at a fancy company that the thriller I was hoping for. I started skimming, so I'm setting this aside."
Emily
"i very much liked how this started, but it dragged out and became predictable. i didn't finish, but i did decide to read about the ending and my suspicions were confirmed. i think this story should have beem shorter and there are long periods of over explaining. dialogue was not well written and it was very much on the nose. "
Justin Huddleston
"Female power, plot twists, charachter progression, and the best ending ever! ❤️"
Nami
"This book starts off sort of slow but is totally worth getting through the beginning! Really makes you think! "
Brandilyn MacQueen
"I finished this gem yesterday and really enjoyed it. I felt that the characters were developed well and each had their own distinctive personalities. I loved the whole idea of these people being locked together in an elevator while their secrets start coming out.... their secrets from life as well as how they've screwed each other over. It was great!"
Brandi M
