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Survive the Night
Riley Sager
Narrator Savannah Gilmore
9 Hours
Published June 2021 by Dutton Books and Penguin Random House Audio
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About the Book:
It’s November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana’s in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it’s to help care for his sick father. Or so he says. Like the Hitchcock heroine she’s named after, Charlie has her doubts. There’s something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn’t seem to want Charlie to see inside the car’s trunk. As they travel an empty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly worried Charlie begins to think she’s sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s suspicion merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?
What follows is a game of cat-and-mouse played out on night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there’s nowhere to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing–survive the night.
My Review:
Thank goodness for the couple of twists in the last 30% of this book because I was so bored with this book up until that time.
What kind of girl gets in a car with some random guy to go anywhere? Even back in the 90’s? Not a very smart one!
The movie playing in her mind that prevents her from knowing what’s real or not, while unique, just doesn’t make sense. I just didn’t understand how a story could be built around this concept. It’s not one that I really enjoyed…. and I love movies!
The last 30% or so of the book was pretty fun and kept me engaged but I’m hoping that the other Sager books will be much better reads.
Thank you to #DuttonBooks and #NetGalley for making this book available for review. All opinions expressed are my own.
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