Synopsis:
In Megan Goldin's unforgettable debut, The Escape Room, four young Wall Street rising stars discover the price of ambition when an escape room challenge turns into a lethal game of revenge.
Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.
Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.
In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style—but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost.
Invited to participate in an escape room as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition: they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival.
Trapped in the dark, the colleagues must put aside their bitter rivalries and work together to solve cryptic clues to break free. But as the game begins to reveal the team’s darkest secrets, they realize there’s a price to be paid for the terrible deeds they committed in their ruthless climb up the corporate ladder. As tempers fray, and the clues turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: which one of them will kill in order to survive?
The Escape Room by Megan GoldinMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
★★★★☆½
I highly recommend this novel.! The Escape Room kept me on the edge of my seat! This was a true page-turner.!
I absolutely loved the mystery of the coworkers being trapped in "an escape room" and I loved going along with them on the ride and wondering who did what to put them where they are? I also Really enjoyed the thrill of this novel.! It is fast-paced and really enjoyable. I never found myself bored or wanting to put it down. I actually stayed all night just to finish it!
My only personal gripe is that there is a true lack of much needed diversity. There was a lot of talk and complaints from one of our main characters about diversity and the lack thereof at their firm but she seemed to only mean in gender. Again, this was a personal thing for me that would have pushed this book to being 5 stars for me. But maybe this book is very realistic of the fact that in the Wall Street world and in the top 1% there isn't much diversity in terms of race. *shrugs*
Other than that, I really adore this book and found myself reading aloud from it on several occasions to my husband and then once to my brother. And we both agree that it'd make for a fantastic movie.!
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Author Bio:
MEGAN GOLDIN worked
as a correspondent for Reuters and other media outlets where she covered war,
peace, international terrorism and financial meltdowns in the Middle East and
Asia. She is now based in Melbourne, Australia where she raises three sons and
is a foster mum to Labrador puppies learning to be guide dogs. THE ESCAPE ROOM
is her debut novel.
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