No Exit

No Exit

by Taylor Adams

5/5

“The difference between a hero and a victim? Timing.” 

    On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside, are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.
   Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate.
  Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her?
  There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one?
  Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape.
But who can she trust?

WOW, this book blew me away! This is honestly the perfect book for people new to the thriller genre! The summary sets you up with a pretty clear picture of what's going to happen in the book, and yet you're still shocked at some of the twists! Throughout most of this book it was a steady 4 star rating for me, and then I got to the last 20% of this book and I was BLOWN away. I was legit on the edge of my seat. My husband came home from work and the first thing he said to me was, "Why are you sitting all weird." I preceded to SHUSH him and read the last five pages of this book. It was so intense at some points that I had to reread pages and paragraphs to make sure I had really just read what I thought I did. 

  At no point in this book was it slow paced, from the moment that Darby pulls in to that rest area you're biting at your nails. The writing was superb in this book, although you figure out who the perp is pretty quickly the author does it in a way where you question the very obvious choice and then when you find out who it was you're still shocked! 

  One scene in particular gave me straight chills! One of my first thoughts after reading this book was that I was going to have nightmares. Remember how I said that some plot points were a little predictable? Well not all of them were, some of them I couldn't have even guessed and I think the author found a perfect balance in this to make it come alive. Lets face it, the most thrilling and scary part of this book is the fact that it's realistic. How many of us stop at rest areas late at night? How many times has your gut given you a weird feeling?! You never know what's going on around you, and unfortunately in this world monsters aren't werewolves and vampires, they're humans. 

   If you need a break from your current genre and want something addicting you need to pick this up! Why isn't this a movie? It needs to be! I could definitely see Leonardo Dicaprio playing some role in this! Also if you have read this book and loved it you should check out I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh!