She's warned that she must not interact with or talk to anyone else about the building’s wealthy and famous inhabitants. She's informed that she is not allowed to have guests in the apartment. While interviewing for the job, she's asked about her health history. Jules soon gets the feeling that all is not as it seems at the Bartholomew, which is, of course, a perfect setup for some psychological suspense, but the problem is that there is little in the way of narrative tension because Jules’ situation is so obviously not right from the very beginning. Jules Larsen is getting over a breakup and the loss of her job when she finds a gig that seems too good to be true: The Bartholomew, a storied Manhattan building, wants to pay her thousands of dollars to simply occupy a vacant-and luxurious-apartment. Whether or not it does depends on how invested one is in formula for the sake of formula. This new novel is another attempt to make the model work. The author tried to do something similar with The Last Time I Lied (2018), with significantly less satisfying results. It was clever but also very well-crafted. Sager’s debut novel, Final Girls (2017), wasn’t so much a horror novel as a commentary about horror movies in novel form. Another homage to classic horror from a bestselling author.
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