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. Maybe.īehind the wheel is Josh Baxter, a stranger Casey met by the college ride-share board, who also has a good reason for leaving university in the middle of term. One suspected serial killer behind the wheel.Ĭasey Jordan is being driven across the country by a serial killer. I absolutely loved it and wholeheartedly recommend it to psychological/horror thriller fans or anyone who likes to be kept in breathless, nervous suspense for a few hours.One passenger. Riley Sager knocked it out of the park with Survive The Night. The pacing is warp speed, the characters are unique, the twists are blindsiding, the plot is horrifying, the suspense anxiety inducing, and choosing 1991 as the time period is perfect to eliminate technology that would change the essence of the story. I can’t say enough good things about this book. And it stays that way up until the last paragraph. In fact, anytime you think you have it figured out, a big twist smacks you upside the head and you find out in no uncertain terms that you have no clue how the story is going to end. Charlie’s brilliant character trait of seeing movies in her mind along with the diabolically manipulative nature of her ride share driver combine to eliminate the possibility of predicting the outcome with any level of certainty.
It’s an understatement to say Survive The Night keeps you guessing from start to finish. So…is this man really a cold-blooded killer about to strike or is he innocently giving her a ride on his way to care for his ill father and Charlie’s overactive imagination is getting the best of her? What ensues is a high-stakes chess match in which Charlie has one simple, primal goal – Survive The Night. This is her unique way of coping with stress and trauma, stemming from watching movies with her grandma in the immediate aftermath of her parent’s death via automobile accident. However, Charlie has a unique quirk of taking real life events and enhancing them in her brain as if they are movies on the silver screen. An hour into the six hour drive she starts to believe that the man driving the car, a stranger she met at the ride share board on campus, is the serial killer responsible for murdering Charlie’s roommate and best friend. It’s fantastic!Ĭharlie Jordan is hitching a ride from her college in New Jersey to her home in Ohio.
Unable to put it down, I lost sleep due to a relentless need to uncover what happens next. It twists your brain in knots, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy while you alternate between gasping “holy shit” and yelling “run away!” Riley Sager has outdone himself with this one. Survive The Night is a psychological mind fuck wrapped inside a horror flick.
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