Participating in a work-sponsored, team-building exercise on a Friday night is the last thing colleagues, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam, want to do. Participation is mandatory, however, so each of them dutifully arrives at the requested location, a remote office building in a shady part of town, right on schedule. Tepid greetings occur in the lobby, prior to the foursome entering the elevator for the ride up to the designated floor.The express elevator ascends quickly and then, without warning,...

My team was involved in structuring the acquisition. Sylvie, who was the team’s tax expert, figured out that if the production of the parts was taken offshore then we could take advantage of a tax incentive in the destination country that would save our client $110 million over five years. That alone would effectively pay for the acquisition. 😴 My reaction to The Escape Room was not expected. I'd seen some mixed reviews from friends, with some calling it a little cheesy, or saying that all ch

Hello friends, let me introduce you to my latest compulsive read. It was utter bananas, and for those who need a grounded, realistic thriller, this is not for you. However, if you fall into the category of "I need a fast paced, balls-to-the-wall, compulsive page turner", do yourself a favor and move The Escape Room to the top of your summer TBR list. I was perusing my shelves this weekend and realized I had a craving to be entertained. I didn't need anything complicated nor grounded; I simply wa...

4.25*If you’ve ever been in a corporate setting, you may be familiar with this. The dreaded yet mandatory work event. You know…one of those sleeper, team building exercises guaranteed to leave you rolling your eyes?🙄🙄Okay, so what if it involves an escape room? Sounds like fun right!? You bet! Right up to the exact moment you realize…this may no longer be a game! Sara Hall finally landed her dream job on Wall Street. After struggling to pay rent and put food on the table she’s finally managed to...

Fascinating page-turner, totally a book cannot be put down! Too many puzzles, too many questions, so many twists! This book contains so much despicable, ruthless, nasty, notorious characters, shapeless products from the intercourse Hitler and R. Kelly kind of evil ( evil looks like Tinkerball when you compare him with those in humans) characters. Each character we learn more about them, we think we cannot despise more but actually yes, we can ! At the beginning we thought they didn’t deserve to

Wow, what an amazing book! I've read many psychological thrillers, but this one is at a different level entirely. In a world where greed rules and everything else is just an annoyance we see 4 members of an elite investment banking team embarking on an escape room challenge that they have been told is compulsory by their employers. Yet after a while they find that this is no ordinary escape room. Locked in a tiny elevator the clues and questions pit them against each other, and it soon becomes a...

My reviews can also be seen at: https://deesradreadsandreviews.wordpr...4.5 Stars!!I’ve always been curious about “Escape Rooms”. This sounded like such an interesting read and I couldn't wait to get started!The book opens as a security guard calls 911 after hearing a scream and what sounded like gunshots in what should be an empty building. The police arrive and everything is silent. Then they hear the sound of an elevator descending…The police stand with their guns drawn as they wait for the e...

The Escape Room is all about the careers of Wall Street financial wizards, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam, who are employees of a company that puts money above all else. Nothing is taboo in this world where clawing your way to the top, over anyone who gets in your way, is considered normal practice. Greed, the addition of more money and more power, drives these people to the exclusion of all else in their lives. Wives, family, and girlfriends are accessories and not allowed to interfere with th...

4 Stars.At Stanhope, it’s a Dog Eat Dog World. Here’s hoping you come out of it alive! Being trapped on an elevator sounds bad on any given day, am I right?Imagine however being trapped in an elevator with three colleagues in what your boss calls a team building exercise known as “The Escape Room.” The elevator is pitch black and the temperature is boiling hot to start. Think: Bikram Yoga (my favorite!). Then it’s like you are in the Arctic circle. Unfortunately, you don’t like your colleagues

5 stars for the entertainment factor. ZERO stars for believability! In the end, fun beat out reality! The Escape Room is a psychological thriller about four co-workers locked in an elevator in order to complete a team-building exercise. They think they just need to complete the challenge and they will be free to go, but things don’t go as planned. What seemed like a harmless game becomes MUCH more as the participants struggle to make it out alive. This is a novel to read if you are looking for

Four co-workers are trapped in an elevator because they are participating in a corporate team building excercise. The elevator is the escape room. They need to solve clues to escape. There is lots of drama in the elevator and it's more sinister than they thought.You have two points of view. One is from Sarah Hall. She is an only child. She chose a high paying job to help her parents. She looks into a lot of dark secrets and wants revenge. Then the second point of view is from the four co-workers...

Made it to page 133 and had to throw in the towel. I wanted to like this book, it has a great premise and concept. Poor execution. I can no longer read like a reader, I have this little writer voice on my shoulder whispering in my ear. I truly loved the Sara character's voice and could've read an entire book about Sara's journey in that world of finance I know so little about. The Sara chapters were strong, evocative, and character driven, my favorite kind of writing/reading. Every time the auth...

Team building at its best or worst.....Ruthless, ambitious, selfish, greedy, jealous, intelligent, hardworking, devious and trapped are words that can easily describe Vincent, Sam, Jules, and Sylvie. They live a life of luxury fueled by the adrenaline that comes from making billion-dollar deals. No one looks better, works harder or lives faster than these four. It's a dog eat dog world they work in on wall street. They put work first- ALWAYS. So, when a text is received announcing a compulsory t...

NOW AVAILABLE!!!they thought it was a game, but they never signed a waiver….for MURRRRRDERRRR!!!!!this is what a christopher pike novel looks like when it grows up. this is Saw in an elevator. if you think either of those comments are made disparagingly, let’s never be friends. this book is pure freaking fun: it grabs your attention from the outset and keeps you locked in for the duration of the ride, action flipping between past and present, frequently switching character POV so you’re always s...

Yahoo! Another winning thriller for me! Could I be getting my groove back!?!Giddy up friends! The Escape Room is one fun wild rodeo here and it’s all bulls, muddy ground and once the dust settles there is nothing left behind but blood. The Escape Room did start off pretty rocky for me with those very unlikable four Wall Street investment bankers and the drama level to this one was throwing off my groove even more and I was one grumpy reader. I did a little complaining to Norma, Lindsay and Kim.

Let the page flipping begin... A chess game of survival for those trapped in an elevator! A wild one! It was both intriguing and suspenseful as the "rules" of the game unfolded. Four rich and greedy investment bankers find themselves stuck in an elevator with someone delivering " clues and cryptic messages  "on how to get out. Will they turn on each other? Who is responsible for setting them up? And..... can they get out alive?Someone has an ax to grind and playing along in this shell ga

Monotonous. Predictable. Uninspired. Missed Opportunity. A quick perusal of the reviews and the consensus seems to be, The Escape Room is mindless fun. Mindless—sure. I’d rally behind that nomenclature all day. But fun? I’d say, that’s debatable and reliant on the reader’s preferences or even mindset at the time. The culmination of what I found to be an uninspiring plot, pages upon pages of “telling” rather than “showing”, and the underdeveloped characters found me desperate to escape this thril...

Wow! Now this my friends is one heck of a thriller! I love when one of my most anticipated reads of the year turns out to be even better than I hoped. I LOVED this book! I literally could not put it down!You take four investment bankers and stick them in a elevator together...for a long time...what do you get? Sounds like the start of a bad joke, right? Well this is no joke. This is downright terrifying. Lured to a building under construction and into the elevator to the 70th floor to take part

Looking for your next suspense/mystery book? Look no further! The Escape Room is the real deal.Easily 5 stars! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟I am pleased to report I was into this book every step of the way. The characters and the story are perfectly developed to keep the reader's interest and build the suspense. The book is a fresh take on corporate corruption and the things it will push desperate people to do.Another thing this book does perfectly that I have found distracting and annoying in books I have read recentl...

Well this was a pleasant surprise. I started reading around midnight with the intention of getting in a couple of chapters before I went to sleep and the next thing I knew my morning alarm was going off. This is one of those kind of stories that you read purely for the entertainment value. This book won't win any literary awards and it certainly won't change your life, but if you're looking for an absorbing read with a unique plot featuring despicable people that get their just deserts, then thi...