![]() And, while I’m not sure it’s going to be the best book I read this year, I’m intrigued enough that I’d check out his other books. That man is seriously obsessed with boobs.īut back to Lock Every Door, which was an easy and quick read. Which I guess is what Sager wants, right? At least I didn’t have any of those eye-rolling moments like I did while reading Michael Bussi’s book. In all honestly, though, I didn’t notice. The Guardian also has an article about this for the curious, which also delves into the apparent phenomenon of the appeal of violent books to women.īut it makes me wonder if I would have even noticed if the book said Todd Ritter instead of Riley Sager, or if Gone Girl would have been just as popular if it had a male author attached to it? Would a reading of Lock Every Door be different for me if I scrutinized the female protagonist’s perspective, knowing it’s written by a man? ![]() It was clever but also very well-crafted. ![]() Sager’s debut novel, Final Girls (2017), wasn’t so much a horror novel as a commentary about horror movies in novel form. ![]() ![]() Another homage to classic horror from a bestselling author. On a side note, while not an entirely new phenomenon (as it’s not uncommon with romance novelists apparently), in an article for the Atlantic, Sophie Gilbert explores the relatively increasing number of men using female or androgynous pseudonyms in the thriller novel genre. by Riley Sager RELEASE DATE: July 2, 2019. ![]()
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