From the beginning till the end it makes you sit on the edge( as a result I sat on the floor to finish this), you feel your heart beats faster, you get shocked and surprised with twists, you got sucker punched by too many I didn’t see it coming-s, you just keep reading and reading till your hands start to shake and you start to suffer from sleep deprivation and scream aloud when you see your red eyed face in the mirror. He incapacitates the driver and tries to kill Jay, only for her to turn the tables on him and blow the bottom half of his face off with a gun. There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, no way out because of the snow, and she doesn’t know which one of the other travelers is the kidnapper. I mean, it's obvious the whole point of it is so the author can continuously bring up the ever-dwindling charge on Darby's phone. Don't start unless you're prepared to read straight through, because I guarantee you will not be able to stop turning the pages.

I won’t go into spoiler territory, but there are actions of the characters and plot points that made no sense and defy rational explanation. With no cell service and no prospect of the roads being cleared until dawn at the earliest, Darby has to figure out a way to save Jay. The first group are all astronauts, about to leave Earth on a one-way interstellar colonization mission.For help with these queries or to submit general questions, comments or feature requests, try Goodreads Help or use the Contact Us form. The time she dreamt that her throat closed up in seventh grade Social Studies class and she vomited a three-inch maggot, pale and bloated, writhing on her desk? It’s a race to outsmart the dirtbag responsible while keeping the little girl safe and surviving until sun up—a feat that at times feels hopeless. The connections between the characters have also been tweaked — for instance, when Jay wakes up, she identifies Sandi as her maid, not her bus driver, and it’s implied that Sandi aided in the kidnapping because Jay treated her so poorly (i.

I had heard a lot of buzz about No Exit so I was really eager to read it, and Adams definitely didn't disappoint. But I do just have to reiterate what a freakin’ DELIGHT it was to read a thriller that fully leans into its over-the-top qualities without ever losing sight of the plot. While stopped in the middle of the road, Corporal Ron Hill tells her that the interstate is closed because of a developing blizzard. Taylor Adams’ original story sometimes veers into horror territory thanks to graphic descriptions of murders-via-nail gun and a subplot involving Lars and Ashley’s uncle, Kenny, who runs a sex trafficking ring in the midwest.The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One Ring. If the author is writing an investigative type or a crime thriller, he should be careful not to include the luck factor and divine interventions favoring the protagonist (investigative officer), more than once. While walking among the cars, she notices a little girl locked in a dog cage in the back of a work van.

The time a man stalked her on her way to 7-Eleven, whistling at her, and then cornered her in the restroom, produced a tiny handgun, and shot her in the back of the head?But this book just contains a major pet peeve of mine, and it comes up not once but several times over the course of the novel. Even if she was emotionally torn apart due to her mother's condition and knowing she might not make it back home in time to see her alive, Darby kept fighting for a little girl who desperately needed her help.