Escape Room Review By Jennifer

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I want to start my review out by saying that I read everything with words, all books, but horror and thrillers are generally not what I read. My life is scary enough, I do not need to read about this stuff. I read this book while I was on a beach in Honduras on vacation, nice and relaxing..or so I thought. This book had my heart racing and I was OMGing and Holy crapping in more than one language. I was not prepared for this book. I was thinking it was going to be a nice, relaxing book to enjoy on the beach, but this had me all over the place with emotions, which is a sign of an amazing author!

 

We begin with someone calling 9-1-1 at 4:017 a.m. This is quite the beginning to a story! We are then taken back in time 34 hours earlier to the scene before the crime. A group of fellow employees are called to an out of the way office building in the South Bronx or a last minute meeting on a Friday night. They were all paranoid that they were called to this meeting to have their careers assassinated silently.  They are all upset when the boss runs in late to the meeting to ask who has done an escape room challenge before. They had delayed business trips, vacations, etc. to attend this meeting to only be meeting for an escape room. Are you kidding? These people make more an hour than I do in a week and this guy wants to play a game for team building.  They reflect on how they all got hired by this wonderful man and the things that have occurred throughout their journeys with the firm. Secrets are unveiled, unseemly things that occurred. These occurrences made my mouth drop, but then again, I worked for the Big banks, so it wasn’t exactly surprising, but it still made my mouth drop and made me on the edge of my seat waiting for more and waiting for the entire story to unfold. I could NOT believe how calculating this book was with all the twists and turns. I did NOT expect how it turned out and with not wanting to spoil anything, I will go no further. I was on the edge of my seat throughout this book and was reading while I was standing in the sand getting my feet wet, reading while on the bus, I was locked into this book like you cannot believe. I read it cover to cover in one day, but the review was something in itself. It is hard not to talk about too much of this book without giving stuff away. I will say that it was amazing since I could not put it down. I will also say that never once in the book did I see anything coming.