Lock Every Door - The Library of the Uncommons

384 pages

English language

Published 2019 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:: 978-1-5291-0441-7

(1 review)

"Lock Every Door" follows Jules, a down-on-her luck young woman who takes a questionable job apartment sitting in one of the oldest, most glamorous and certainly quite mysterious buildings in New York City. There are many rules to the job: no visitors, no nights spent away from the apartment and no disturbing other residents. What seems easy money at first becomes daunting as an isolated Jules searches for answers in another tenant's disappearance.

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scienced reviewed Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

Not worth the time spent on reading it

2 stars

Content warning Spoiler!

This is a family tragedy mixed with a hint of Mark Twain's "The prince and the pauper" in a short novel that should have been probably better as a short story. One follows the slow adventures of a poor girl caught in a situation in which she crosses some wealthy people living in a mysterious building.

In the end, we understand that the whole situation was generated by rich people in need of organs for transplantation, who were recruiting poor young guys and girls with no family ties for this awful deed. Medically challenging nearing the impossible, the book revelation was hinted earlier and was pretty obvious.