The premise of this book reminded me a bit of Riley Sager’s ‘Survive The Night,’ and I wanted to compare the two since I felt like Sager’s book had some gaping holes in it. ‘Five Total Strangers’ uses a much more plausible plot: stranded in an airport halfway home in a snowstorm on Christmas Eve, eighteen-year-old Mira catches a ride to Pittsburgh with her seatmate and three other college students, all seemingly friends. The drive from Newark to Pittsburgh turns into a hellish journey, with road closures, disappearing possessions, dying cell phone batteries, and increasingly suspicious fellow travelers. While in Sager’s book suspicions seem justified, in this book Mira’s paranoia doesn’t make much sense until things start to go missing (a plot development that is really never explained). Still, the intensifying blizzard makes for a claustrophobia that enhances the story and the novel keeps you turning pages to find out how—or if—these five will *ever* get home.