Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Twists and Turns, but with Pretty Big Breadcrumbs Left to Follow

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

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“If something seems too good to be true, it probably is”. This is one of the lines telegraphed at the beginning of Riley Sager’s Lock Every Door, which inevitably (and unsurprisingly) ends up being far too real for the young protagonist, Jules. Jules is a recently unemployed young woman, nursing a newly broken heart and living on a best friend’s couch, trying to figure her life out. When she finds an opportunity as an apartment sitter, getting to live in the fancy building (albeit with […]

Spoiler: This book was written by a man

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

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It’s been a year since I’ve completed a book (not including ones I’ve read with my 7-year old). An embarassingly adult book-free year. I’ve started a few, but either wasn’t interested enough to finish them (I’m looking at you Crazy Rich Asians), or, really, just not interested enough to start any new ones either. But I’m happy to announce my dry spell is over and Lock Every Door is the book to quench my thirst. This is the third book by Author Riley Sager, which […]

The Last Time I Lied is a slow burn that sticks with you

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

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The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager wasn’t exactly what I expected. This was my first Riley Sager book but I doubt it’ll be my last. In my head, it would be more like Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places – a woman researching a past crime, not sure who to trust and maybe trusting the wrong people, ending with a big climax. I guess it was sort of that, but in a way it was darker. Darker than your brother murdering your whole family as […]

GET OUT OF THERE!!!

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

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Jules Larsen just needs a break.  On the same day, she loses her job and comes home to her boyfriend having sex with another woman on the couch.  Up to her eyeballs in college loan debt and nowhere to live, she’s elated when she sees an ad on Craigslist offering $4000 a month to stay in the Bartholomew, a very fancy NYC apartment building that caters to the rich and famous as an apartment sitter.  When she’s shown the space she’s also told the rules:  […]

All Girls Summer Camp? Sounds like a bad idea to me

The Last Time I Lied: A Novel by Riley Sager

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15 years ago, Emma went to summer camp for the very first time.  Being late to arrive, the 13 year old was placed with three girls who were older and were friends already.  There was the queen bee, Vivian, bitchy when she wanted to be, always adventurous and determined.  Natalie and Allison played the role of the queen’s attendents, doing whatever Vivian told them to do. Emma?  Emma just idolized Vivian.  Having been at the camp only two weeks and falling in line with the […]

3 Star Thrillers

An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

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(3 stars) An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena This was probably two and a half stars, but I’m rounding up. The story was decent but pretty predictable. An Unwanted Guest takes place in a small family-run inn on a night when the weather is so bad that all the guests are trapped inside. They lose power and the roads are unpassable. Unfortunately, that’s right around when people start dying. First, the beautiful engaged woman falls down the stairs. Everyone suspects her fiance until an author […]



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