About This Book:
*Review Contributed By Jan Farnworth, Staff Reviewer*
I Didn’t See That Twist Coming
I’ve always loved puzzles and escape rooms, so picking up Escape Room by Christopher Edge felt like stepping into a story made just for curious, puzzle-loving readers. And honestly? It turned out to be a wild, imaginative ride that kept me guessing the entire time.
The story follows Ami, a girl who loves riddles and big questions about the universe. When she arrives at a mysterious place called “The Escape,” she expects a challenging but fun puzzle experience. Instead, she’s thrown into a series of increasingly strange and dangerous escape rooms with four other kids she’s never met. Their mysterious host tells them they must solve each challenge and find “the Answer.” Easy enough… except the rooms feel impossibly real.
Each level felt like stepping into a completely different world. One moment, the characters are solving clues in a crumbling library; the next, they’re dealing with dinosaurs in an abandoned mall or trying to survive in space. I loved how unpredictable it all was. Just when I thought I had a sense of where the story was going, it would flip things around again.
What really stood out to me was the creativity. The puzzles aren’t just background details—they’re part of the story and the characters’ survival. Watching the group work together (and sometimes clash) made the tension feel real, and I kept turning pages because I wanted to see how they would escape the next impossible situation.
But the thing that surprised me most was the deeper sci-fi twist running through the book. Beneath the puzzles and action lie bigger ideas about technology, the future, and the choices humans make. The ending definitely made me pause and rethink everything that came before it.
Overall, Escape Room felt like a fast-paced adventure mixed with a brain-teasing puzzle game. It’s the kind of book that’s easy to fly through in a couple of sittings because you want to know what the next room will be.
If you enjoy clever puzzles, imaginative settings, and stories that feel a little like stepping inside a video game, this one is definitely worth checking out.
