The Interview by C.M. Ewan

Description from Goodreads:

"It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday.

You have been called to an interview for your dream job.

In a stunning office thirteen floors above the city below, you are all alone with the man interviewing you.

Everyone else has gone home for the weekend.

The interview gets more and more disturbing.

You’re feeling scared.

Your only way out is to answer a seemingly impossible question.

If you can’t . . . what happens next?"

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A tense setup that loses its way in the second half

This is another book that has been sitting on my to-be-read pile since 2022 and I have finally got round to reading it now. Having already read A Window Breaks and One Wrong Turn by the same author, both of which I thoroughly enjoyed, I was really excited to dive into this one. Unfortunately, it did not live up to those for me. 

The story focuses on Kate, who arrives at a sleek, high-rise office building for a late-evening job interview that quickly turns into a terrifying locked-room nightmare.

The first half of the book is brilliantly done. The claustrophobic atmosphere inside the empty building is incredibly tense and it really captures that unsettling feeling of being trapped. It reads like a fast-paced action movie early on and the suspense kept me turning the pages quite quickly to find out what was going on.

However, once the true motives are revealed in the second half, the plot starts to fall apart a bit. It felt like the story stretched the boundaries of believability too far, relying on some highly unrealistic action sequences and massive coincidences. The pacing slowed down significantly during these sections and the characters started making decisions that just did not make sense, which ruined the initial tension. 

It is a decent, quick thriller if you want something fast and dramatic, but it just did not hit the same high standard as his other novels for me however, it won't put me off reading more in the future.

A big thank you to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for enabling me to read and share my thoughts.

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