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Lädt ... Lock Every Door: A Novel (Original 2019; 2020. Auflage)von Riley Sager (Autor)
Werk-InformationenLock Every Door von Riley Sager (2019)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I was enthralled by every single second of this book! There isn't a single dull moment: no, Sager's "Lock Every Door" is perfectly paced and filled with a bizarre building dripping in gargoyles, apartment tenants who are both rich and mysterious, and this beautifully eerie sense of something that is not quite right, like a curtain rustling even though the window is closed. This is without a doubt the best thriller I have read in years, and I highly recommend it. It's an unsettlingly wondrous work of suspense that's going to get some hearts pumping. 3.5/5 Isolation is the key to this thriller. Jewels is one of the most likable heroines you will ever read about. She has a tragic past that is more than anyone should go through and a tough situation at hand. She has no one, aside from a loving friend that she can’t share her new employment with. Her recent relationship had also ended in a lot of hurt, so no love life to speak of either. Complete isolation. It’s the perfect set up for what unfolds in this old and very admired apartment building. The idea for this story is pretty good. The characters feel a bit YA for my taste, and the ending is cozy. Slow build, decent pay off, not bad reveal. I do appreciate how much respect Sager seems to have for women. [b:Lock Every Door|41837243|Lock Every Door|Riley Sager|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1540938359l/41837243._SY75_.jpg|65308942] If something seems too good to be true.... I am constantly behind the curve ball with things. I know this book came out in July of this year. I didn’t get my hands on it until August and that was only because I ran across it on Scribed. I have to my eyes open for the next book by Riley Sager books. Jules has had a string of bad luck, starting with getting laid off from her job, followed by discovering her live-in boyfriend banging another woman. She ends up near penniless, sleeping on her BFF's sofa until she finds a classified ad for an apartment sitter. $12,000 to occupy a luxury apartment in the Bartholomew—a New York high society landmark—for three months. It sounds too good to be true, especially given the building is the fairy-tale setting of a novel that bound Jules and her sister as teens. The job comes with severe rules. No visitors allowed, no social media, no conversation with the rich and famous residents. She must leave the apartment in the condition she found it, and stay in the apartment every night. Jules had my sympathy throughout the book, and I felt she was a worthy protagonist. She had a lot of grief in her early background and was in an unenviable state as the well-plotted story begins. She gets comfortable and soon starts to make friends with another apartment sitter, Ingrid. Jules learns that the Bartholomew has a dark, creepy and scandalous history and reputation and that Ingrid is becoming unnerved staying there, but like Jules needs the money. When Ingrid disappears without warning in the middle of the night, Jules becomes suspicious and frightened that her surroundings hold threatening and eerie secrets. I won’t give up too much more information on the story because I want you all to pick it up and give it a read for yourself. I loved that listening to it added so much more of a spooky factor for me. Well rounded thriller solid 4 stars. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"The next heart-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager follows a young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one of New York's oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays. No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story. until the next day, when Ingrid disappears. Searching for the truth about Ingrid's disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's sordid past and into the secrets kept within its walls. What she discovers pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building's hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The residents all seem to be someone famous whether an author, actor/actress or executive. Before she moves in, her BFF Chloe tells Jules that the building has a sinister past and she shouldn't move in. Her first day there, she meets Ingrid, another apartment sitter in the apartment directly below the one Jules is in. They start talking and Ingrid informs Jules that the building "scares" her. Then Ingrid disappears. Jules is extremely concerned and starts looking for Ingrid.
Jules discovers Ingrid is not the first apartment sitter to go missing from this building. As she delves deeper into this mystery, she begins to fear for her own life. ( )