Tuesday, December 31, 2024

REVIEW: The Cage (book) by Bonnie Kistler

The Cage is a mystery/thriller. I bought my copy new.

Review:

At a fashion company, Lucy (from HR) and Shay (from Legal) enter an elevator, which gets stuck and loses power. When the doors are finally opened again, Lucy is dead. Shay claims she killed herself during a panic attack. If it was murder, Shay is the most obvious suspect.

I'll start by saying the elevator and what happens in it really doesn't matter. The real story is what's going on with all the characters. It's an interesting overall story, but it's kind of odd that Kistler set it up so that "did Lucy commit suicide or was she murdered?" seems like the primary mystery when it's really more "Why did Lucy die?"

I couldn't tell whether the author wanted readers to think Shay was brilliant or not. Honestly, she got super lucky. She made some incredibly stupid decisions early on and only started to sharpen up later in the book. Jingjing was probably more badass overall.

This was a reasonably fun read, but pretty flawed.

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