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No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.

As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly, disturbingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story . . . until the next day, when Ingrid disappears.

Searching for the truth about Ingrid's disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's dark past and into the secrets kept within its walls. Her discovery that Ingrid is not the first apartment sitter to go missing at the Bartholomew pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building's hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent.

Chapter 1-8

(view spoiler)[ to be able to get paid to watch and keep up an rich apartment. How could she turn that down. But yeah still curious at the rules. Hmm. But still intriged. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 9-14
(view spoiler)[ so she meets the other house sitter now that sitter suddenly gone....smdh.... Strange. But the author she so enjoy gives her some much needed advice. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 15-27
(view spoiler)[ she has her own investagation going on. Dr nick im curious about him. No one wants to pissoff lesile smh. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 28-36
(view spoiler)[ ha my prediction was right. Well unless theres a twist.... (hide spoiler)]

Finish....
(view spoiler)[ similar to rosemary baby due to the building and strange people in the building. I predicted Nick and Greta but didnt know that itll be about organs. Just intriging but not all that mysterious. 3 stars. (hide spoiler)]

23% - (view spoiler)[Okay, so the rules may seem a little weird and the place may be a little creepy, but it sure sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime! To get paid to house sit an apartment in a famous building. The no visitors rule is really odd though. (hide spoiler)]

35% - (view spoiler)[So definitely something fishy about I grid's disappearance. I doubt anyone just leaves in the middle of the night like that under good circumstances. Quite creepy.

I don't think it'll turn out well for Jules to be snooping around and asking questions.

Even though she's really rude, I kinda like Greta. She's one of those old ladies who's been alive forever and seen some shit and she doesn't need to impress anyone at her age so she's just a grouchy old lady. I love her haha.

Guessing there'll be a little something something between Jules and Dr Nick. Calling it now.


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80% - (view spoiler)[Satanism??? Cults??? Dr Nick is a bad guy??? WTF is going on???

No, but for real I'm loving this book. It keeps doing these crazy turns and I'm here for it!

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Finished - (view spoiler)[WHAT DID I JUST READ??? I love it.

The reveal about the hospital being part of the Bartholomew and Jules never left threw me. Such a good reveal. And the whole harvesting organs from the apartment sitters? Evil and crazy and I've never read anything like it, yet it reminded me slightly of Get Out (slightly, because of the whole inviting poor single underprivileged people to their 'world' and harvesting them to keep the rich people healthy) and it's shocking and I fucking love it.

Even if she's very central to the whole scheme, I still really liked Greta and appreciated her allowing Jules to escape in the end.

Another favourite from Riley Sager. Loved every one of his books so far and can't wait to get my hands on the next one!!

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25%
I have high expectations because i read 'The last time i Lied'
(view spoiler)[ Jules having lost her Job/boyfriend same day, gets a job at the Bartholomew as an apartment sister.
I guess the Bartholomew is like 'Hollwood' (hide spoiler)]

50%
(view spoiler)[ Chloe is very suspicious of the bartholomew. Who pays that kind of amount just to be an apartment sitter?
Besides she finally meets Greta (the author of the book 'Heart of a dreamer' (hide spoiler)]

75%
(view spoiler)[ Ingrid missing, residents are calm about it. Jules is not. Finally awkward Dylan comes around.
I don't like Nick......
I have a bad feeling about him
He is too nice (hide spoiler)]

100%
(view spoiler)[ Ingrid escaped! Thank God
Happy i'm right about Nick.
Sad about Dylan though!!

This book was!!!!! (hide spoiler)]

I'm a bit late to this but I'm very excited to read another Riley Sager book!

Chapter 5
(view spoiler)[He referenced American Horror Story! I love that show :D

This is decently spooky so far, I have no theory as to what's going on yet.

I'm gonna some wild guesses out here just for fun: Since everything is so secretive, the people apartment sitting basically have no solid evidence of being at the Bartholomew. Maybe it's a human trafficking thing? Or maybe those super rich people are using the sitters for some weird purpose like hunting them for sport. I'm probably way off hahaha I watch too many horror movies 😂 (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 17
(view spoiler)[The guy who built the place was a doctor? DUN DUN DUUUUN so that's why he's Dr. Nick, Dr Bartholomew would have been too obvious!

This story is giving me Hostel 2 vibes even though I'm pretty certain the twist here isn't that the sitters are getting sold to crazy rich people. Maybe. I hope not. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 30
(view spoiler)[Interestingthat only young women have gone missing, but seems that Dylan has been there for a while with no issues. I don’t trust Dr Nick Bartholomew one bit. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 38
(view spoiler)[Idk maybe the elderly people in the building are transplanting their brains into the young orphaned sitters and the Dr is helping them. That’s weird and rebirth-y? Reminds me of a certain movie that I won’t name because spoilers. Yes that really is my theory right now I still have no idea what's going on :D

I feel like there must be something else going on with Nick, he became TOO obviously suspicious, too early in the book. (hide spoiler)]

I'm such a slacker on my physicals :( but I swear I'm diving into this book today :) It's my WFH home and after lunch it should die down so I can read

Chapter 41
(view spoiler)[A Satanic cult and human sacrifices? I'm a bit disappointed tbh, that's as unoriginal as it can get. I didn't even bother guessing Satanic cult because it seemed too boring and easy.

Can we get another twist please :< (hide spoiler)]

Three Days Later
(view spoiler)[OOOH I underestimated Riley Sager! I shouldn't have doubted him.

This is much better than the cult thing and my last guess (that the old people are taking the young people's bodies) was actually quite close to what's really happening. (hide spoiler)]

Finished!
(view spoiler)[Okay that ending felt a little bit too easy and clean but I'm still happy with it overall! This is my favourite Riley Sager book out of the 3 :D (hide spoiler)]

Ashleigh wrote: "Finished - [spoiler removed]"

(view spoiler)[OMG yes! This twist reminded me so much of Get Out! It's different enough though that I don't mind, I thought it was really well done :D (hide spoiler)]

Hold finally came in so starting this today.

Hope I'm not too late!

I liked this one! (view spoiler)[I got kind of bored in the middle because it felt like it wasn't going anywhere but when it picked up, oh man. (hide spoiler)]

Nearish the ending: (view spoiler)[I seriously thought Jules was going to get axed lol damn. There were some signs that lead to being paranormal and I was going to be so mad. I'm glad they weren't a devil worshiping cult (hide spoiler)]

The ending: (view spoiler)[LOVED THAT. I'm so glad that building got knocked down but I wish we had gotten some answer to her missing sister?? Can't believe that was just a thing that never got answered (hide spoiler)]

Claire wrote: "Finished!
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Same I think. I can't wait to see what else he writes tbh. Also agreed about the ending (view spoiler)[but jules went through a lot she deserves it haha (hide spoiler)]

25%: (view spoiler)[okay what the absolute hell is with these weird ass rules? Anyone else thinking that or no? (hide spoiler)]
50%: (view spoiler)[..uhm, a sitter gets paid how much? (hide spoiler)]
75%: (view spoiler)[lmfao i'm sorry but what? why is she so calm? i'm so confused (hide spoiler)]
100%: (view spoiler)[WOW, this book was freaking amazing and addicting. I definitely had some characters that I liked and that I hated.. so yeah. I need to read more from this author STAT! (hide spoiler)]

Lesa wrote: "Chapter 1-8

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(view spoiler)[Regardless of what happens in the rest of the book, to turn down that kind of money?! Yeah, I would be sitting that apartment as well! (hide spoiler)]

Up to chapter 11. (view spoiler)[Everthing is fine so far, I'm just waiting for all of it to fall to the wayside. (hide spoiler)]

Starting

Up to chapter 22 (view spoiler)[I need it to move a little faster as I'm bored with the story so far. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ Claire wrote: "Chapter 17
The guy who built the place was a doctor? DUN DUN DUUUUN so that's why he's Dr. Nick, Dr Bartholomew would have been too obvious!

This story is giving me Hostel 2 vibes even though I'm ..." (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[Haha, that would certainly add some spice to this! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 1-20
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Jules gets a wonderful job as apartment sitter of barthlomew
..just like her sister disappeard ..her frnd n neighbour ingrid also disappears the night ..she leaves a gun and a be careful note for jules
Soo creepy..iam loving it
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Up to chapter 32. (view spoiler)[ So none of these girls have families. It’s funny that’s one of the very specific interview questions. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 20-40
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This buk is gettng interestng..involving a cult and sacrifice of young women on blue moon..so thtswht hapnd to indrid n erica..
Nick is behind all this..iam sure abt tht
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Jaye wrote: "I liked this one! [spoilers removed]"

This!

Up to chapter 41. (view spoiler)[Well, I don't even know what to think about this sudden cult aspect. I'm not sure if I like it. (hide spoiler)]

Up to 47(view spoiler)[ Wow. Just. Wow, what a turn of events. From cult to rich people needing organs because they don't want to wait their turn. They kidnap people under the impression of sitting for the apartment and keep them until all their organs are used up! That's something I would have never imagined. (hide spoiler)]

Finished (view spoiler)[ Well, everything certainly moved fast in the end. I felt so much for Dylan and the fact he was killed! His heart taken for another. That was jarring to me. Probably the most jarring of it all. What a topic. (hide spoiler)]

Jaye wrote: "The ending: [spoilers removed]"

This was literally what I was thinking the entire time.

So I've got 3 days to finish this before the 1-month deadline is up. I feel like I can do this especially since I read Final Girls in one day (I was up till midnight and couldn't sleep until it was done).

Chapter 10 (view spoiler)[ So far it isn't hitting me with any suspenseful urges. I know something is going on since in present day she says not to take me back, but besides that it definitely just seems like a great opportunity to save some money sense Jules is homeless and jobless. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 18 (view spoiler)[ BE CAREFUL! That's all that is written! Why are people always so evasive.... (hide spoiler)]

This was my first Riley Sager book (then read the other two) and I loved it. A lot of people seemed to have preconceived notions from the first two books (they either had very high hopes for this one, or felt Sager needed to prove himself after the last two.)

I like books that have both - some part of the mystery that I can play detective with and solve, and some part of it that is completely unexpected and throws me off. This book had both for me so I was super pleased!

(view spoiler)[ I knew from the beginning that she wasn't in a real hospital and that she'd be revealed to be in the Bartholomew still. The doctor's behavior seemed off to me.

I also knew Nick was going to turn out being involved, but that's just because they slept together so quickly, LOL.

The part about harvesting organs for rich people - that BLEW ME AWAY! I loved it. I haven't seen too similar of a storyline to this before and I love that. Someone above (I apologize for not knowing the name of who!) mentioned that this had some Get Out vibes, and I totally agree. Kidnapping/murdering young, healthy loners for their organs is SO GNARLY, and they all absolutely believed it was due to them. Disgusting but fascinating.

As much as I wanted to know what happened, I am kind of glad we never found out what happened with her sister. I thought they were going to somehow tie her disappearance into the Bartholomew story line and that just seemed too unrealistic to me and would have been too neat of a package. Sometimes you never find out what happened so I thought it was a cool thing to leave open. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 34 (view spoiler)[ So.... The missing girls may have to do with the famous writer. I still think Nick plays a part too he seems too eager to help and too suspicious. (hide spoiler)]

Finished (view spoiler)[ So after reading the other books by this author I thought it wasn't up to par. It was slow up until the last quarter of the book when everything pieces together with the cult, and sacrifices, and who is related to who. The ending wasn't all too surprising for me. (hide spoiler)]

Starting!!

(view spoiler)[The Bartholomew is def shady. It's very weird that Ingrid disappeared suddenly. And the whole middle of the night thing was weird too. A part of me doesn't think the flashbacks are Jules. I think its either Jane or Ingrid.

Everyone seems nice. Except the author Jules admires. If something sinister is going on, I'm surprised all these people are going along with it. (hide spoiler)]
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