This is my least favorite Riley Sager so far. Now I just need to read Final Girls to see where I sit with that one.

I’m going to try to give thoughts without spoiling it: 


I will say that Survive the Night was in fact, a binge worthy summer read. Maybe great for a read by the pool or on the beach. 

Not great to pick up during a reading slump (trust me). 

The plot was somewhat predictable since it’s such a small cast of characters, but there are twists that you may not see coming.

My main issue that won’t giveaway spoilers: what woman is going to get in a car with a stranger after their best friend is murdered?? Even in the 90s? Come on. Also, setting this in the 90s seemed like a cop out to me because obviously writing a ‘kidnapping’-esque story set in the 2000s would be harder to develop. 

In the future, I’d like to see Riley Sager to write a plot where the victim/person in trouble doesn’t do something that’s super obviously opposite what they need to do.

I really hope he’s not going to go down in quality like the other authors that are pushing a book out every summer.