A review by reading_under_covers
Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

4.0

Ethan was ten years old when his best friend Billy went missing from their tent in his backyard. Thirty years later, Ethan finds himself back on Hemlock Circle where mysterious things start happening in the middle of the night and they all point to Billy. Ethan begins looking into it and enlists the help and answers of his neighbors who were also there thirty years ago…

It’s absolutely no surprise that MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT by Riley Sager was one of my most-anticipated releases of the year…but I’m here to tell you that it didn’t fully hit the mark for me (IT’S STILL FOUR STARS, OKAY!!!)

Let’s start with the good - the setting and atmosphere were everything! The cul-de-sac vibes are the epitome of small town, while also creating a tiny, very close-knit group of people - I could wax poetic on these details forever and ever (also a big reason for the four stars!!)

There’s also a kid named Henry in this who’s my absolute favorite little nugget of all time (literally protect him at all costs) and we also get some queer rep in this book!

With all of that greatness, there’s also the not-so-great (Michael-Scott-face-cringe while I’m writing this)…….

the twists were not twisting 😬

And honestly, I blame Riley for giving us some of the most unbelievable twists known to man for making my expectations so high(?) for this book. But the twists were very mehhh.

There were also some elements that were brought in, but then just fizzled out that felt very unlike Riley as well, BUT THE ATMOSPHERE. This book has got that!

I’ll obvi still continue to read Riley’s work and truly did enjoy most of my time reading this, but I am extremely nervous for the harsher Riley readers to hop in the chat 👀

Huge thanks to NetGalley and Dutton for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Publication Date: June 18

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Review to come!

Thanks to NetGalley and Dutton for an early copy of this one for review - Publication Date: June 18