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With a Vengeance<\/strong> by Riley Sager<\/a>
on June 12, 2025
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Feminist<\/a>, Fiction \/ Mystery & Detective \/ General<\/a>, Fiction \/ Mystery & Detective \/ Hard-Boiled<\/a>, Fiction \/ Mystery & Detective \/ Women Sleuths<\/a>, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Political<\/a>, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Psychological<\/a>, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Suspense<\/a>, Technology & Engineering \/ Civil \/ Transportation<\/a>, Transportation \/ Railroads \/ General<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 400
Format:<\/strong> Hardcover<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson\u2019s family. Twelve years later, she\u2019s ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family\u2019s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of thirteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who\u2019ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served. But Anna\u2019s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge, and that they won\u2019t stop until everyone else is dead. With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save them, even though it means putting her own life at risk.<\/p>\n

This was my first Riley Sager book. Though I was not fully impressed, I wasn\u2019t disappointed either. Just more Blah. I easily will forget this novel, but I enjoyed while I read it. I felt like something was missing, the dark, mysterious, and gritty atmosphere of this train carrying a murderer. The train should have held much more of an impact, but instead, other than that they reference where things are occurring, it didn\u2019t add to the ambience as much as I would have liked. The first third of the book is spent introducing various characters both on the train and in the past, and I found myself both a bit overwhelmed with the amount of characters, while also feeling like the pacing was moving incredibly slow. Though there was still an entertainment factor here that can\u2019t be discounted.<\/p>\n

I rated this novel 3.5 stars. The pacing of the book was extremely slow at times, and there were chapters of information that could have been edited out as it dragged out the story and took away from the thrilling suspense. For me, the ending was very convoluted and WAY over the top, as well as too many \u201ctwists\u201d that it just kept getting messy and confusing. <\/p>\n

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