Genre: Suspense / Mystery
Book Type: Combination Physical & Audio
Author: Riley Sager
Narrator: Savannah Gilmore
Pages / Length: 336 pages / 9 hours and 1 minute
Publisher: Dutton (June 29, 2021) /
Book Description:
It’s November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, 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 shocking 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.
The longer she sits in the passenger seat, the more Charlie notices there’s something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn’t want her to see inside the trunk. As they travel an empty, twisty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly anxious Charlie begins to think she’s sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s jittery mistrust merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?
One thing is certain—Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. Trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse played out on pitch-black roads and in neon-lit parking lots, Charlie knows the only way to win is to survive the night.
Thoughts: Here's the thing - I am a huge fan of Sager, but this book had me so frustrated. My mind can be pushed to believe certain situations, but this one was too far for me. While there were some twists that I appreciated, and did like the surprise in the end (which I didn't see coming), overall I found myself yelling at the book and rolling my eyes. I hate reviews like this, but I needed the audio to get through it (although I did love how it was physically written and laid out).
Rating: ⭐️⭐️
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