Survive the Night
TikTok made me buy it! A twisty, spine-chilling thriller from the international bestseller
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3.6 • 31 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Charlie Jordan is being driven across the country by a serial killer . . . Maybe.
Behind the wheel is Josh Baxter, a stranger Charlie met through the college ride-share board. They are both leaving university mid-term, after sundown. But Charlie can't hesitate long enough to wonder if Josh's reasons for fleeing are as terrible as her own.
On the road they share their stories, carefully avoiding the subject dominating the news - the Campus Killer, who's tied up and stabbed three students in the span of a year, has just struck again . . .
But Josh doesn't seem to be as terrified as Charlie by the idea of a murderer on the loose.
As Charlie begins to plan her escape from the man she is becoming certain is the killer, she starts to suspect that Josh knows exactly what she's thinking.
Meaning that she could very well end up as his next victim.
A game of cat and mouse is about to play out. In order to win, Charlie must do only one thing . . . Survive the night.
Readers are OBSESSED with Survive the Night:
'I loved EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF IT . . . SHOOK ME TO MY CORE . . . Gave me EVERYTHING I WANTED AND MORE.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'LOVED . . . adored this one from beginning to end.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'WOW . . . threw me for a loop.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I so did not see that coming!!! . . . I scarcely dared to breathe!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I smashed it out in just a few hours. I could not stop reading it.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thriller Award finalist Sager (Home Before Dark) elevates a standard suspense trope—a young woman trapped in a car with a stranger she fears is a serial killer—in this stellar nail-biter set in 1991. Charlie Jordan blames herself for the death of Maddy, her best friend and roommate at New Jersey's Olyphant University. A day after Charlie let Maddy walk back from a bar to their dorm on her own after an argument, Maddy's corpse was found. She was stabbed multiple times and one of her teeth was removed, the hallmark of a two-time murderer dubbed the Campus Killer. Wracked with guilt and self-loathing, Charlie resolves to leave in the middle of the semester, and finds a ride home to Ohio with Josh Baxter, a janitor employed by Olyphant driving to the state to tend to his ill father. Charlie soon suspects Josh has been lying to her about who he is. Her tendency to create movies in her mind makes her perceptions unreliable, even to herself. Sager excels at playing with reader expectations and in concocting plausible, gut-wrenching twists. Fans of Ira Levin's A Kiss Before Dying will be pleased.
Customer Reviews
Far fetched and really rather stupid
*insert eye roll emoji*
Underwhelming
I LOVED Riley Sager’s other books Home Before Dark, Lock Every Door and Last Time I Lied and they captivated me such that I couldn’t put them down!
I was hoping this book would be as good.
Unfortunately, like his debut Final Girls for me, this book just did not live up to my expectations.
I found the plot boring instead of captivating. Instead of having that “edge of your seat” feeling wanting to know how it ends, I found the book dragged on. It was underwhelming. Even the climax at the end didn’t capture my attention and I skimmed through it to arrive at an ending I predicted 100 pages earlier.
The author dabbled with gaslighting and an unreliable narrator which could have been a recipe for intrigue but instead the efforts fell flat and were not exciting. There were plot holes and I found the plot unbelievable. Rather than being shocked and excited I just found the plot boring!! I was counting down the pages until it was over and I now wish I didn’t bother wasting my time unfortunately.
I will recommend to my friends that they do NOT read this book. If you like thrillers with supernatural themes then read Home Before Dark by the same author instead.