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# Home Before Dark

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desertcart.com: Home Before Dark: 9781524745196: Sager, Riley: Books

Review: If you’re thinking about it, get this book now! - I devoured this within one weekend, it’s so good. This is my second Riley Sager book, the first was Only One Left. I won’t review that one here but I cannot recommend it enough. If you haven’t read that yet, go read it! But don’t forget about this one! Riley Sager is very talented at writing winding, twisting narratives that keep you guessing. I’m usually really good at predicting what “plot twist” is coming my way in a book or show/film. But each Riley Sager story I’ve read has always taken me for a ride on the edge of my seat, and left me floored by the end. I scare very easily and at times I’d have to put the book down for a few minutes to shake off the goosebumps. But I was too captivated to walk away for long. This book was so fun to read and a perfect spooky read for a snowed in (or rainy!) weekend. Read it!
Review: Highly Enjoyable and Lots of Bumps in the Night - I've read all four of Riley Sager's novels. I've liked them all and thought all four would make fantastic movies. But I think Home Before Dark is his best work to date. It's not as throwback or fun as Final Girls and it didn't have the same romantic ambiance of Lock Every Door, but this one was really balanced and well crafted. There's something about Sager's work I've realized the fourth time in. His work always seems "familiar" to me, as though I've read or seen the concept before. But I actually had a realization in this book that this style may actually be on purpose. I actually love a homage and, in this book, it's just too obvious to miss. So yes, it's like an idea you've seen, but a completely fresh angle. In this one we have Maggie, a thirty year old interior designer, who is famous for being the surviving child/victim in a non-fiction book written by her father about a haunting they experience in a rambling Victorian home they lived in 25 years prior. The book has defined her and she despises it. She has no memory of the actual events and is convinced her dad made the whole thing up just to profit. And profit they have. The money has paid for her education and their lives and she's just inherited the entire share after her father's death.... including the house itself. She makes the decision to go back to the house, despite a death bed promise to her father that she won't, and her mother's insistence as well (who offers to buy the house off her, as she's now remarried to a realtor). There was a tiny lapse in logic here. It was clear her parents are desperate for her to NOT return to the house. So I found it amazing they left it to her in the estate. But lapse of logic aside, and putting myself in Maggie's shoes, I would ABSOLUTELY go back to the house to see if I could figure out what happened. Especially to see if the memories would come back from living in the house. So off she goes with a double agenda. To realize the mysteries of her past while being productive and renovate the house to sell. The cast of characters from her perspective is largely limited to the people from the book itself, people her family knew as a child... neighbors, police, locals, etc. She has a female friend and business partner but that interaction is limited to cell phone communications. The friend, Allie, was the weakest link character as she only serves as a plot device to give updates and is not a realized character. Another Riley Sager style is the flashbacks. I did not like the device in Lock Every Door (the story is told from the same character's POV but from a future self and a current self told side by side). But in this book, it really worked. As Maggie is going through the motions of the current day mystery, etc., we get to read portions of her father's book in which she is the main character. So her father, in present day deceased, is the other main character and his story of the haunting is told from his perspective. There was only one moment I lost track of the POVs but, overall, Sager did a great job of giving both characters a unique voice. I had a small issue with the ending simply because it was super rushed. Just BAM, BAM, BAM. That being said, Sager pulls off the difficulty of giving us a satisfying ending in a horror novel. And, yes, I've seen the other reviews in which it's questioned if this is a horror novel. I say, yes, absolutely. It's more horror than any other genre. I would not expect to be "scared" as it's not that type of novel. It's more like atmospheric horror with a mystery at the center. And it leaves enough open that we are left to wonder and question, while still being given a very solid conclusion. Overall highly recommended if you love all the stuff I love... old Victorian houses, trips to libraries to do research, mysteries and investigations, old love letters, family and town folklore, ghosts, etc. I think this book is a real treat and absolutely to be enjoyed.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,383 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #14 in Ghost Thrillers #202 in Psychological Thrillers (Books) #252 in Suspense Thrillers |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 27,267 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you’re thinking about it, get this book now!
*by A***E on November 26, 2025*

I devoured this within one weekend, it’s so good. This is my second Riley Sager book, the first was Only One Left. I won’t review that one here but I cannot recommend it enough. If you haven’t read that yet, go read it! But don’t forget about this one! Riley Sager is very talented at writing winding, twisting narratives that keep you guessing. I’m usually really good at predicting what “plot twist” is coming my way in a book or show/film. But each Riley Sager story I’ve read has always taken me for a ride on the edge of my seat, and left me floored by the end. I scare very easily and at times I’d have to put the book down for a few minutes to shake off the goosebumps. But I was too captivated to walk away for long. This book was so fun to read and a perfect spooky read for a snowed in (or rainy!) weekend. Read it!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly Enjoyable and Lots of Bumps in the Night
*by F***X on July 4, 2020*

I've read all four of Riley Sager's novels. I've liked them all and thought all four would make fantastic movies. But I think Home Before Dark is his best work to date. It's not as throwback or fun as Final Girls and it didn't have the same romantic ambiance of Lock Every Door, but this one was really balanced and well crafted. There's something about Sager's work I've realized the fourth time in. His work always seems "familiar" to me, as though I've read or seen the concept before. But I actually had a realization in this book that this style may actually be on purpose. I actually love a homage and, in this book, it's just too obvious to miss. So yes, it's like an idea you've seen, but a completely fresh angle. In this one we have Maggie, a thirty year old interior designer, who is famous for being the surviving child/victim in a non-fiction book written by her father about a haunting they experience in a rambling Victorian home they lived in 25 years prior. The book has defined her and she despises it. She has no memory of the actual events and is convinced her dad made the whole thing up just to profit. And profit they have. The money has paid for her education and their lives and she's just inherited the entire share after her father's death.... including the house itself. She makes the decision to go back to the house, despite a death bed promise to her father that she won't, and her mother's insistence as well (who offers to buy the house off her, as she's now remarried to a realtor). There was a tiny lapse in logic here. It was clear her parents are desperate for her to NOT return to the house. So I found it amazing they left it to her in the estate. But lapse of logic aside, and putting myself in Maggie's shoes, I would ABSOLUTELY go back to the house to see if I could figure out what happened. Especially to see if the memories would come back from living in the house. So off she goes with a double agenda. To realize the mysteries of her past while being productive and renovate the house to sell. The cast of characters from her perspective is largely limited to the people from the book itself, people her family knew as a child... neighbors, police, locals, etc. She has a female friend and business partner but that interaction is limited to cell phone communications. The friend, Allie, was the weakest link character as she only serves as a plot device to give updates and is not a realized character. Another Riley Sager style is the flashbacks. I did not like the device in Lock Every Door (the story is told from the same character's POV but from a future self and a current self told side by side). But in this book, it really worked. As Maggie is going through the motions of the current day mystery, etc., we get to read portions of her father's book in which she is the main character. So her father, in present day deceased, is the other main character and his story of the haunting is told from his perspective. There was only one moment I lost track of the POVs but, overall, Sager did a great job of giving both characters a unique voice. I had a small issue with the ending simply because it was super rushed. Just BAM, BAM, BAM. That being said, Sager pulls off the difficulty of giving us a satisfying ending in a horror novel. And, yes, I've seen the other reviews in which it's questioned if this is a horror novel. I say, yes, absolutely. It's more horror than any other genre. I would not expect to be "scared" as it's not that type of novel. It's more like atmospheric horror with a mystery at the center. And it leaves enough open that we are left to wonder and question, while still being given a very solid conclusion. Overall highly recommended if you love all the stuff I love... old Victorian houses, trips to libraries to do research, mysteries and investigations, old love letters, family and town folklore, ghosts, etc. I think this book is a real treat and absolutely to be enjoyed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another one in ONE sitting!
*by S***K on November 26, 2025*

This is my introduction to Riley Sager and man! Idk anything about the other books, but I can't imagine anything topping this one! I went into this fully blind. Just a random book rec video, and I didn't have ANY idea what the story line was. I didn't even read the jacket. I COULDN'T PUT THIS DOWN. The jump scares, the little moving parts, the book within a book, the story telling, the TWISTS!?!? It was all amazing. What a ride. It's 1 am and I may have to start the next Sager book because I DON'T KNOW HOW I SLEEP AFTER THIS ONE.

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