The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

**Getting in is easy...
Getting out is MURDER.**

**VINCENT, JULES, SYLVIE, AND SAM** are ruthlessly ambitious high-flyers working in the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, where deception and intimidation thrive. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to reach the top.

When they are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, dark secrets of their team begin to be laid bare.

The biggest mystery to solve in this lethal game: What happened to Sara Hall? Once a young shining star--now "dead but not forgotten."

**This is no longer a game.
They're fighting for their LIVES.**

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I strongly suspect that the reason I enjoyed this book so much is because we all have worked in a soul-sucking company and have to put up with hostility, gaslighting, sexism and career sabotage. We rarely get to act on our fantasies of burning it all to the ground together with all the people who made work life a misery for us.

That's The Escape Room in a nutshell. Four ruthless investment bankers found themselves tricked into an escape room scenario in an elevator. Faced with clues that alluded to people who were once part of their team, their secrets boiled to the surface as they tried to solve the mystery of getting out of the room and who could have possibly set them up to this slow torture of each other's company.

This book was easy to read and hard to put down. While it required the type of suspension of belief that you need to watch most movies, there was satisfaction in watching deserving individuals get their comeuppance with no clue where it's coming from. Revenge is a dish best serve cold indeed.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley.

Well written contemporary thriller

Now this was a fun book. I read it in a day and a half. All the characters were interesting and easy to keep apart. Original idea, well executed. Highly recommend for an easy read.

The publisher provided me with the opportunity to read this in exchange for providing feedback. (via NetGalley)

I struggled with the arc formatting making it hard to follow but I'm glad I stuck it out. This was a bit of roller coaster that really picked up towards the end. The author did a great job at writing characters that were awful people and made it easy to dislike them.