Fantatsic story with so many twists and turns, it is impossible to put down as you need to know what is going to be the outcome. Most random interview I have ever been on...

Not my usual type of genre but it’s always good to try new things. So glad that I did, it was a gripping book that made me want to keep turning the pages! Well done.

Oh, this has been a delight to read! I have really enjoyed the twists and turns in this novel and it has ignited my reading spark again. So thank you for that!. C.M. Ewan knows how to write thriller novels.

I have read this author before and although I enjoyed the previous book I want 100% sure that I would like this book and it was ages before I started it. Once I did I gobbled it up. A real improvement- just great.

Okay, so this does get rather ridiculous towards the end, but it's so much fun you don't really care. If you enjoy grand, far reaching conspiracy theories turning out to be true, you'll love this suspenseful thriller, but if you struggle to suspend disbelief, this one's probably not for you.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC without obligation.

I loved the first novel by this author that I read (A Window Breaks) so when I received “The Interview” I couldn’t wait to get started. The novel began well enough, and I was looking forward to a twisty story with lots of surprises. It quickly became a tedious read with the most unbelievable scenarios occurring.

I loved the premise: a corporate company using spies to get information to protect itself. I just think so much more could have been done with the characters and setting. I got bored with Kate trying and failing to escape all the time, and none of the characters made any impact on me. I made no emotional connection with any of them so by the time the end of the novel came, I was quite relieved.

I wanted to love this story, I really did. I just can’t.

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5 Stars from me 

I read this beauty in a day, had so much else to do but just couldn't put it down.

What an absolute headf*** of a book!

I started the book wondering why it was called 'The Interview' when a whole entire book couldn't just be about an interview surely, could it?

C M Ewan has created a tense and tightly focused story that had me absolutely hooked and deeply invested in the outcome. Kate is a great character, it was hard to imagine what I would have done in her situation.

I've seen a negative review of this book saying that how unrealistic it is... well durr, that's what makes it such an exciting story! Of course it (hopefully) wouldn't ever happen but then hey that didn't do The Matrix or Harry Potter any harm did it!

So yes, Kate is a good character, so is Joel for that matter, and I had conflicting thoughts about him throughout the story. Her brother and his storyline was good too - a nice little side distraction from the tension of the the interview.

I would recommend reading the book over as short a period as possible, I couldn't possibly have this as a book that I read for 15 mins or so here and there - mainly as I couldn't put the damn thing down!

Oh my goodness! When Kate attends an ordinary job interview things soon spirals to chaos as a hidden agenda comes to light.
Already traumatised by the death of her husband Mark in an aeroplane crash she has come to the place where she feels it is time to move on with her life. It seems someone else has another idea however and she finds herself fighting for her life.
A page turner to the end, Chris Ewan has again grasped his readers and taken them on a roller coaster from start to finish.

I am so glad I have finished this book because now I can breathe again!

What a fast paced, heart pounding roller-coaster ride it was! A thriller with a V8 engine that revved the tension up so fast I couldn't put it down. Just one more chapter, then another, and before I knew it it was the early hours of the morning and I had finished it. Chris Ewan you owe me a couple of finger nails and a few hours sleep!!

If you are looking for a totally addictive thriller with tense relentless action then look no further.

Highly recommended!

I read this ARC for an honest review
All thoughts and opinions are mine

This is a new author to me
This is not my usual fare but WOW - I found this totally immersive and compelling
I absolutely loved this

Even if thrillers are not your thing, you should read this

Wow! This was a brilliant book. Absolutely compelling thriller. I found myself holding my breath as I read it. Beautifully written and captured my imagination. I was hooked from the beginning to the very end. I just loved how the story unfolded revealing each of the characters and the reasons for the abduction and dreadful torture of someone who thought they were being interviewed for their dream job. So many twists and turns. A real page turner with a tremendous story line.

Im not sure if its just the way the arc of this book was but it was all over the place and I was confused.

The Interview by C M Ewan - an edge of the seat thriller not to be missed. Publishing Feb 2022, Kate is invited to her dream job interview at 5pm on a Friday evening on the 13th floor in a stunning office block in the city. What follows is a disturbing, thrilling twisty turny tale of entrapment with devastating consequences. 📚 pull an all nighter, you won't be able to put this chunky thriller down with its punchy short chapters and despicable characters.

Thanks to Chris and NetGalley for allowing me to read The Interview before the publication date.

Kate Harding has been invited to interview at Edge Communications for the role of Elite Account Manager.
She is escorted to the trendy, open plan office on the 13th floor and introduced to Joel White, before being shown into the only enclosed office, known as the cube.

But Joel is no ordinary interviewer, having been trained in interview techniques by the intelligence services. He now operates freelance, specialising in interviews and crisis management.
Kate is presented with a psychometric test to complete and she soon finds that it contains disturbing and deeply personal questions.
He introduces the subject of a court action about the impact of the air quality on Marshjet aircraft and the impact of the health of the flight crew, but Kate declines to comment.

The tone of the interview quickly changes to an interrogation.
When Joel leaves the cube, Kate finds that she is locked in and her handbag and phone are missing.
Looking out into the main office, she realises that all the staff have left for the weekend.
When she answers the ringing phone, she realises that Joel is watching her every move on camera.

What does Joel want?

This is definitely not a book for the claustrophobic!
It has to be the scariest, creepiest book I have read in many a year.
Chris launches straight into this page-turner, ramping up the tension from the start, so much so that I found myself holding my breath.

Whilst there does come a point where belief has to be suspended, this is a great story, based on a topic which hit the headlines in 2020...

This was a very high paced thriller with a lot of violent action, it really wasn’t a book that I enjoyed. Too violent for my taste. I also thought that the plot was lacking in parts too.

Many thanks to netgalley and C.M. Ewan for the advanced copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

A psychological thriller with lots of twists and turns along the way. The plot starts off quite straightforwardly but quickly becomes more complicated. The suspense builds up and there are some shocking events . It all seems quite realistic, which adds to the terror. The writing style is quite sparse which adds to the suspense.
This is not an easy read and at times seems a little too long, enjoy is probably the wrong word given the subject matter, but it was certainly interesting.
Thank you to Net Galley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

As usual in my reviews, I will not rehash the plot - plenty of reviews like that already if that's what you are looking for.

This was a gripping read - I didn't want to put it down, and stayed up late to finish it.

There are some quite violent sections in the book, but they fit in with the plot. The levels of tension are maintained throughout. There are some good twists - I was pleased to have guessed a couple, but there were still several that I had not expected.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I can easily believe that some huge corporations would go to such extreme lengths to save themselves!

Will definitely read more by this author!

My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC. All opinons my own.

Job interviews are such a stressful experience, and this stress is taken to the extreme in The Interview. Part psychological mystery, part escape room, part violence thriller, this book certainly knows how to keep the stakes high and leave you guessing.

As Kate is called to a posh new office building to have an interview at a new job, you get the feeling that she is hiding something from the reader. There’s a lot of hints to previous tragedies and keeping things back from employers. This is slowly unravelled and is actually quite a complex backstory – I think the drip-feed technique is done really well here and you get the uncertainty of feeling Kate might be an unreliable narrator at times.

Having read a few disappointing thrillers recently that were set in escape rooms – this book actually does a really good job of presenting the challenges of a locked room. However, towards the middle I started to find the dynamic of the same character being locked in the same space and trying to get out again and again a bit repetitive. This isn’t helped by the small cast of characters which doesn’t keep it as fresh as it could have been.
Although we start out with quite a sinister thriller, the book does get quite violent at times so be prepared for that! I liked that the ending kept the stakes high, and the conclusion was good and felt apt to the rest of the book.

Overall, The Interview is a creepy, atmospheric escape-room thriller, although it does feel a little repetitive in the middle. Thank you to NetGalley & Pan Macmillan for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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A brilliantly conceived and original plot. This book will reel you in and won’t let you go until the end. I genuinely couldn’t put it down and raced through it at record speed. Kate Harding has confidence issues but has great ability so when her recruitment agent, Maggie suggests she goes for an interview with Edge, a well respected and cutting-edge company, she is in two minds. However, she knows she is good enough so pushing her self doubt to one side, she does her research and sets off to try and get the job she feels she deserves. Upon arrival, she is met, taken to the thirteenth floor of the new high rise building and given a brief tour of the incredible facilities Edge offers to its staff. They seem to have a ‘work hard, play hard’ mantra. Expecting an interview with Amanda, she is shocked when told she will now see Joel who has flown in from their New York office. Settling into the cube, the only private space in the open plan office, the interview begins….To say this book escalates quickly is an understatement but to say more is impossible without giving away spoilers. However, it really is a great book, with a well worked storyline that will have you on the edge of your seat, filling you with fear and tension as you race through this gripping story.

An amazing yet terrifying thriller about the scariest type of job interview, where nothing is as it seems and the characters are equally twisted!