With a Vengeance – Book Review

One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.

In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution.

Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of fourteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served.

But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge—and that they won’t stop until everyone else is dead.

With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save them—even though it means putting her own life at risk.

Well this is Riley Sager’s latest book. It was a little better than his last book but then if you have read Agatha Christies Murder on the Orient Express, this seems to be the weaker version of that.

In 1942, Anna Mathesons’ family got destroyed by six people. She lost her brother, her father and her mother. Now ten years later, Anna vowed to take revenge on those six people. She books the Phoenix Philadelphia train that will take them all the way to Chicago. The six people along with Anna and Seamus were the only passengers. Anna’s goal is to hand them over to FBI in Chicago for the crimes they have committed. But on the way, the passengers start dying one by one. Anna realizes that someone else might be in the train and is trying to derail her plan before it is too late.

Good things about the book is, at least this was fast paced, intriguing and interesting. This was also a page turner as well. However, I felt the entire story was sort of predictable and the characters all felt bland and uninteresting. This book could have been better but then as I mentioned, I didn’t DNF the book as I liked the pacing.

Overall this is worth 3 stars. I hope Riley Sager will write a better thriller next time.