Survive the Night by Riley Sager

 

Survive the Night by Riley Sager - 324 pages

Charlie Jordan is being driven across the country by a serial killer. Maybe.

Behind the wheel is Josh Baxter, a stranger Charlie met by the college ride share board, who also has a good reason for leaving university in the middle of term. On the road they share their stories, carefully avoiding the subject dominating the news - the Campus Killer, who's tied up and stabbed three students in the span of a year, has just struck again.

Travelling the lengthy journey between university and their final destination, Charlie begins to notice discrepancies in Josh's story.

As she begins to plan her escape from the man she is becoming certain is the killer, she starts to suspect that Josh knows exactly what she's thinking.

Meaning that she could very well end up as his next victim.

I know that a lot of people are fans of Riley Sager, and I have really tried to be.  I just can't.  I like the idea of this book and I was curious how it would play out.  But the main character, Charlie was just so naive in my opinion.  It was like watching a cheesy horror movie where you're yelling at the screen to "RUN!!" but the characters keep doing silly things to stay in danger.