Every Riley Sager book I've read has a plot that sounds like exactly my kind of thing and I get really excited but then the execution leaves me disappointed. ( )

I want to watch this as a movie, now that I've read the book that is. I was not even halfway through when I started say, this would be such a freaking awesome movie.
I finished this in less than a day. All I can say is Riley Sager did it again. ( )

Riley Sager does it again!! This is tied for me with Home Before Dark. Loved it and didn’t see the twists and turns coming my way. So happy I found this author and the thrillers he’s created. ( )

Charlie's best friend has been murdered; so, Charlie Jordan decides that she has to get away from Olyphant University, she has to go home. She’s posted a flyer looking, asking, begging for someone to give her a ride. Then she "just happens" to meet a stranger who "just happens" to be going her way. Riley Sager is so incredibly good at psychological horror. If you have read any of his other books, then you know that high-concept plots are always there. In this one the whole tale unfolds over one long, eventful night in 1991. Charlie is a girl that doesn’t seem to be very interested in self-preservation; or else she's just careless or too trusting for her own good.... or she just behaves in ways that are just plain stupid, doing this again and again and again. In the start of the story, she spends a lot of time wondering if it seems reasonable for a young woman who just lost her friend to a serial killer to travel across two states with a man she’s never met. DAH! No Charlie...it's NOT reasonable at all!!! The whole first half of the story is Charlie discovering that her driver may not be who he says he is, and guess what???...she wonders if he may plan to harm her. He certainly doesn't want her looking in the trunk! A great deal lot of time is spent on establishing something that everyone is already assuming. The end of this tale is filled with twists, turns and realizations. Some are genuinely surprising because they are what any half intelligent human being would already have figured out. But... they are as inevitable. There’s also something about Charlie’s love of classic films and history of trauma that is used to create a one-time condition where she momentarily leaves reality behind and gets lost in cinematic fantasy. This made very little sense, but you can surmise how it's supposed to be important to the plot and helps to remind us that Charlie may not be playing with a full deck. Despite these flaws, it's the reader who gets to decide if they want to just give in and go along for the ride. If you do, you will have an interesting and sometimes frustrating few hours ahead of you. It is a good story, even though it sometimes seems to be a flawed story. Overall...it can be described as suspenseful...and sometimes...silly. ( )

ooooh this one is tough. I can see why others had harsh criticism of this one. But if you take it in the spirit of, what I think, what the author intended, then you can just glide along with the story without worrying too much. Don't try to make it more than it is. Imagine Charlie's movies and just enjoy the ride.

I found myself caught up in it. I was curious how it would all end. I liked the time updates, so you knew what part of the night we were on. Once we hit a certain point, all bets were off and I was just along for the conclusion. I didn't try to guess anything so I was surprised by each twist and turn. It was interesting and I enjoyed it for the entertainment it was. ( )