The House Across the Lake – Book Review

The New York Times best-selling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night is back with his most unexpected thriller yet.

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple who live in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is rich; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.

One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage is not as perfect and placid as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey becomes consumed with finding out what happened to her. In the process, she uncovers eerie, darker truths that turn a tale of voyeurism and suspicion into a story of guilt, obsession and how looks can be very deceiving.

With his trademark blend of sharp characters, psychological suspense, and gasp-worthy surprises, Riley Sager’s The House Across the Lake unveils more than one twist that will shock readers until the very last page.

This may be my 5th or 6th book I have read of Riley Sager and I always enjoyed reading his books. This book is also one of my highly anticipated books and looked so forward to read the book. I started last year and then finished this year.

So you can figure out how the book is.

This book partially reminds me of the Woman in the Window–Casey Fletcher is a widow, who is in the lake house in Vermont, venting off her sorrow by drinking. Just across the lake, another couple lives in the house–Katherine and Tom Pryce. Casey saves Katherine from drowning and the two become friends. And while spying through the binoculars one night, Katherine goes into a fight with Tom and the next day, Katherine had gone missing.

This book started out slow and boring that I nearly DNFed the book. But I don’t usually do DNF so I thought I would finish this book off ASAP. Yeah the first part was boring, slow, not too much going on…but the tension and the actual story starts somewhere in the middle and the tension starts building towards the end. An unexpected twist at the end actually made my rating to increase from 2.5 to 3.5 because the ending was so completely unexpected with a serial killer in the twist. I heard the book is in talks of turning into a movie but having read all of Riley Sager’s book, I must say, this wasn’t as good as his previous ones.

Overall, this book worth 3.5 stars.

If you do want to check out his books, try Home Before Dark–that was really, really good. And als my favorite book of his was Lock Every Door too. I will soon put up my ranking of Riley Sager’s books soon.