Lock Every Door review

 

Book: Lock Every Door

Author: Riley Sager

Pages: 400

Date(s) Read: May 12, 2025 to July 13^th, 2025

Date Published: May 5^th, 2020

Rating: 3/5

Genre:  Thriller

Characters: 3/5

Writing style: 3/5

Story: 3/5

Ending:  4/5

Cover: 3/5

Format: Soft Cover

Date Bought: August 10^th, 2024

Book Cost: 12.23

Review:

Lock Every Door is a solid thriller that somehow ends up feeling somewhat disappointing. It's not a bad book but the major plot twist ends up feeling a bit inadequate compared to what you think is going on. The ending also ties everything up nicely, but too nicely given the message of the book. I was hoping for a deeper remark on the classicism and wealthy of our society, but it never quite happens.

 

In Lock Every Door Jules is a struggling twenty something whose been recently dumped. In her desperation for cash she answers an ad for an apartment-sitting job that pays big bucks. Despite her friend warning her it seems too good to be true she decides to take the job. Obviously, it's too good to be true and things happen.

 

Jules isn't a bad heroine but she's hard to feel passionate about. I don't think I've ever felt so indifferent about a main character. The other characters I ended up feeling much the same way about with the exception of like one, that I wished the author had fleshed out more.

 

Lock Every Door isn't terrible, it's not even bad...it's just underwhelming in every aspect from the story, to the characters, to even the ending. It feels like it really could have been so much more.