Review: The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

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Summary:

Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are ruthlessly ambitious high-flyers working in the lucrative world of Wall Street finance where deception and intimidation thrive. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to reach the top.

When they are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, dark secrets of their team begin to be laid bare.

The biggest mystery to solve in this lethal game: What happened to Sara Hall? Once a young shining star—”now gone but not forgotten”.

This is no longer a game.

They’re fighting for their lives.

Review:

The Escape Room was an unexpected surprise. Alternating between Sara and her coworkers in “the escape room”, this book had me hooked. I will say that the first part of the book was like a slow simmer but then the second part of the book took the book to a place of no return. I would love to see this as a movie.

I had a love/hate relationship with the characters. I say that in the most endearing way with much love to Megan Goldin.I hated these characters because they were so ruthless but that was the addictive charm to flipping those pages. We learn a lot about her coworkers in that team building exercise that let’s just say they get what’s coming to them with karma served on a gold platter. The drama that unfolded between them was nonstop and you feel like you are in there with them.

I really liked Sara. She represented the good in that awful corporate world. Getting to know her was a nice contrast to the alternate pov of how the book played out. What happened to her was terrible but then a major plat twist happens and it just makes this where you don’t want to stop reading. 

Overall, I thought this was an awesome psychological thriller that builds up to be fantastic. I can’t wait to read more from this author and I’m recommending adding this to your TBR.