Wow wow wow, I came into this book expecting great things because of how popular Riley Sager (who is a man by the way, which shocked me) is at the moment and let me be honest... It did Not disappoint.

I had my first buddy read with my very first Bookstagram friend Georgia, AKA @theunorganisedbookshelf, which only made the experience of reading my first Riley Sager more exciting.

The chapters were very short, the writing was excellent and was very easy and quick to read, which is the perfect combination for a short 300-ish book.
Jules as the main character was very interesting, mainly due to the trauma she experienced when she was young, other than that she was slightly generic as the broke girl with nowhere to go.
The Bartholomew was an excellent setting, like it could not have been more perfect than that, a very prestigious, expensive and mysterious building in the Upper West Side with a view of Central Park, you could feel how creepy and uncomfortable it was due to Riley Sager's writing.
As for the side characters, I was quite glad when Ingrid disappeared mainly because she really irritated me lol.
Greta was an interesting character, as was the creepily perfect Leslie Evelyn (disliked her from the start due to her last name being a first name), and I suspected Dr Nick from the beginning mainly because it was too perfect for someone like Jules.

SPOILERS!
The moment Jules saw the Ouroboros pin on that lady's shirt, I literally screamed CULT and I was very glad that that was the case and I had called it, only for Riley Sager to throw another big twist into the story, that honestly made much more sense in the story he had built.
The fact that The prestigious Bartholomew was a front for an organ stealing/transplant/killing poor people thing since it was first built was wildly fascinating and completely unexpected to me, I literally could not have guessed that that was the case.

What I loved most about this book, is that more than halfway into it and I still didn't know shit about what was going on, which made the experience feel fresh and exciting (something that very few thrillers can get me to feel).
I applaud the author for not taking a cop-out and making this a ghost/paranormal story, because it really would not have made any sense.

The ending was okay, if slightly meh after all the twists that had happened before, but I did rather enjoy Jules burning down (or more accurately attempting to burn down) The Bartholomew, killing that bitch Nick and putting poor desperate Charlie in his place.

All in all, an excellent book that has me quite excited to read more Riley Sager!