I Can't Wait For... SURVIVE THE NIGHT

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

Riley Sager is one of my auto-buy authors and I can't wait for this one to come out...

Survive the Night

Standalone
by Riley Sager
Thriller
eBook, Hardcover, Audiobook, 336 pages
June 29, 2021 by Dutton

Blurb:

It's November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana's in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.

Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it's to help care for his sick father. Or so he says. Like the Hitchcock heroine she's named after, Charlie has her doubts. There's something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn't seem to want Charlie to see inside the car's trunk. As they travel an empty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly worried Charlie begins to think she's sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie's suspicion merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?

What follows is a game of cat-and-mouse played out on night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there's nowhere to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing--survive the night.

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Will You Be Checking This Book Out? 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 22 February 2021

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.

Happy Monday Bookdragons! I hope your week is off to a good start! I had two job interviews this morning and I hope one of them works out. 

What I Read Last Week: 

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

Warning: I've been on a Riley Sager binge... and I'm loving every minute of it. I'm so glad I took the time to read this one... it might be my favorite of all of his so far.  

The Bachelor by Carly Phillips

This was a reread for a blog tour. I read it originally probably 13 years ago and loved it. It was nice to revisit it with a new cover and updated technology. 

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

I actually was pretty apprehensive going into this book because I've heard mixed reviews but I ended up really loving it (and relating to Jules because, well, life right now). It's really kind of eerie thinking about the building and what it was being used for. *Shivers*

Tempting Heat by Sara Whitney

Seriously... this book was a perfect read for the recent weather (although we haven't had as much snow here in Wisconsin as further south thankfully). It's a cute, fast-read perfect for an afternoon where you're snowed in. 

The Booty by Willa Nash

Okay, so I got this for being part of the author's newsletter (it's the pen name of Devney Perry) and it's been sitting on my kindle for a little bit. Following my need of a palate cleanser yesterday I devoured this one in a little over an hour. The festival in this book sounds kind of awesome... haha 

Currently Reading:

Final Girls by Riley Sager

I tried reading this one last year but couldn't get into it, but it's the only Riley Sager currently published that I haven't read yet so I'm giving it another try... this time in audiobook. It's moving along better now so maybe I was in a slump last time.  

Next Read

Moon Child by Gaby Triana

I just added this to my kindle (since it released last week) but I've been looking forward to it since I first heard about it a couple months ago. The author sold me when the blurb describes it as "The Craft meets The Shining."

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What books have you gotten recently? What are you reading this week?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 15 February 2021

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.

Happy Monday Bookdragons! I hope you had a good weekend and a nice Valentine's Day if you celebrated!

What I Read Last Week: 

Winds of Salem by Melissa de la Cruz

Winds of Salem was the weakest of the trilogy in my opinion. It's split between Freya being stuck in Salem in 1692 and the modern era and sometimes that works, other times it doesn't. I don't like how Freya's story ultimately ends. We see more in Freddie's perspective in this book and I couldn't stand him even in the second book. Joanna's part was okay, but I found it annoying how invested she was in Tyler getting into a private kindergarten; one might even call it obsessed. And I think Norman was done wrong. He had to sacrifice himself just because of a stupid decision Freddie makes. And Ingrid... she was the most stable of the book I guess? It was an okay read but toward the end I found myself mostly skim reading. 

East by Edith Pattou

While the story is clearly well-researched to keep to historical accuracy and terms maybe it’s because of how many times I read the original fairy tale growing up that I found the story predictable. I always knew basically what was going to happen next.

Currently Reading:

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

I started reading this book once before but was in a book rut so I'm giving it another go.  

Next Read

Sweet Black Waves by Kristina Perez

This is a "give-a-book-a-second-chance" read for me. The last time I tried to read this book I kept comparing it to the 2006 movie Tristan and Isolde staring James Franco and Sophia Myles. Now I'm going to go into it thinking only that it is a YA Fantasy inspired by an old myth and in no way related to the movie. Let's see how that goes. 

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Do you ever give a book you DNF'd or didn't like a second chance?