Pom's Space

Never take anything you haven’t earned, my father used to say. You always end up paying for it one way or another. If closed door mysteries and potential haunted houses with dark pasts are your kinda tropes in thrillers, then you’ll love Lock Every Door. Barring certain parts where I felt the writing sort of slowed down, it was a great thriller, pretty gripping and full of nail-biting suspense. The story is narrated by our main character Jules, who is in both a financial and personal crisis right after she broke up with her boyfriend. One fine day she comes across an ad claiming the need for an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most gigantic, splendid and mysterious residency buildings, housing the most high-profile personalities of the city. But there are these bizarre rules about not having visitors and not bothering other residents. Soon she discovers that apartment sitters from the Bartholomew are disappearing long before she moved in and Jules is determined t...

  **WARNING: THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS** Find what you love and let it kill you. Oh gosh! Where to begin? It felt like Rebecca meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo . And that is a combination I am up for any day. Okay let me start by saying that that was dark. Really dark and disturbing. So, if you are someone who is uncomfortable with reading infant harm, child murder or explicitly triggering scenes, then here is a warning for you. Now that said, let’s begin. The book begins with Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer, heading for a meeting that’ll supposedly lead to a great career opportunity, when she witnesses a tragic accident in which a truck crushes the skull of a man. Lowen is still processing the gruesomeness of the incident when she meets Jeremy, who turns out is headed to the same meeting as her. Lowen gets an offer to finish the last three books in a series written by Verity Crawford. After expressing initial disinterest, Lowen decides to accept the offer. W...