No Exit: A Novel Hardcover – January 15, 2019

No Exit is one of the best thrillers I have read in a while! It had me in the edge of my seat, heart pounding, and dying to know what was going to happen next.Darby Thorne is a student driving home to Utah, from her college in Colorado, to see her mother, when she's caught in a “Snowpocalypse,” and she ends up stranded, with no cell service or wi-fi, at an isolated rest area with four strangers: There’s Ed, an older bald man with a good but sarcastic sense of humor; Sandi is Ed’s travel companion, a religious woman constantly onto Ed for his “impious” behavior; Ashley (male) is also a college student - cute, funny, and very talkative; and there’s Rodent Face, or Lars, a mouth-breather that immediately gives Darby the creeps. All four seem at least a little off to Darby, though.At first, Darby thinks her worst problem is missing her mother's surgery; just the day before, her mom was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer, and they had been exchanging harsh words a few weeks prior. Or maybe, she thinks, her worst problem will be boredom and forced small talk and niceties while they all wait for the snow plows to clear the roads at dawn. However, that all pales in comparison to the moment she sees a small child locked in a kennel in the back of one of the stranger's vehicles – a sketchy grey van - while she’s outside desperately trying to send a text in this no-signal zone. Now she knows one of her new acquaintances is dangerous, but which one, and what now?Though Darby does rather quickly figure out who the van belongs to, as the story progresses and the kidnapper becomes more psychopathic, plans become more twisted. She must come up with her own plan to outwit or outrun the antagonist and rescue the child all while keeping herself alive.This action-packed thriller was extremely well written. The many twists and turns were largely unpredictable, unlike in many of the thrillers I regularly read. The characters were incredibly well written and I couldn’t help but connect with Darby, feel sorry for the child, and loathe the antagonist – feeling like I knew most of the characters personally. I also felt like I became intimately acquainted with that rest area – during a snowstorm – though my Floridian self has never even seen much snow.Overall, this book is simply amazing! I can’t recommend it enough!

So yes, this is creepy. To know there are people out there of all ages and looks proves you can only trust yourself! Having said that by GOD, if you go on a long, rough trip, especially around the holidays, be fully prepared or dont go and any female should have more than 1 thing they can protect themselves with.Having said all that, I read it in just slightly over a day. If you love a great hero, suspense, live, or die book, you are going to love this book. I will be reading more from this author.

I really liked this book. It was a page turner, and also had some great twists . I finished in INE night I could not put it down. It was a very easy read

this book is amazing it is the best book ever!

This book sounded creepy and since it takes place on a snowy night (we're getting snow too) I decided to read it now. It did start out a little slow, but one it got going there was definitely a creepiness to it. I like this author, Taylor Adams, and have never read any of his books before, but I will keep a look out for more mysteries from him! I would recommend this book if you like mysteries.

Read in 2 days . Great thriller

I picked up this book because the setting, trapped by weather at a rest stop, sounded suitably creepy without adding in that you discover that one of the strangers stuck there with you is terribly dangerous and evil.Once home I'd decided that the story line couldn't possibly remain engaging for a full length novel and that it was sure to get boring. I decided to read the other suspense book I'd bought that day first. Once I finished that one I figured I'd give this one a try after all, if only to enjoy the creepiness of the initial set up and learn from where the story got dull to improve my own storytelling.But I was wrong. Taylor Adams never let No Exit stall or get boring. The suspense stays story and steadily builds. And what you get is some very graphic violence and gore that is true to the nature of the villain in this story. The faint of heart should skip this read if you can't stand some truly flinch worth descriptions.No Exit didn't change my life but it was the creepy suspenseful read I was looking for. And I'll likely remember it for many years to come every time I pass a rest stop.

Kept me guessing and in anticipation of the next move. I genuinely enjoyed it. A perfectly laid out short story.

After seeing lots of people rave about this book I decided to give it a go. Cheap American Z list bit part movie sums it up. Stereotypical baddies, unnecessarily violent (thankfully I have no idea what a "yellow card" is and I don't want to). By a country mile the best character in the book is the little girl who is 7 going on 32. She does seem to be able to act surprisingly like an adult despite her tender years. She has Addison's disease (primary adrenal insufficiency) and unlike everyone else on the planet with this condition she is treated with injections rather than tablets-poor kid. Whether she is diabetic (and so would need injections but insulin ones not steroids) is not stated. Add to that the running commentary on how low the phone battery is (because of course no heroine worth their salt would dream of remembering their charger) and this book becomes a pastiche of many previous books and night time Raspberry award thrillers. Unpleasant, deeply so and not particularly well crafted

If you are able to silence your inner critic and suspend belief then this book will take you on a journey that is violent, claustrophobically gritty and tense.I enjoyed this book, it held my attention and kept me guessing. However, at times it was overly descriptive when it was not necessary and poor editing meant there was a lot of mistakes in plot (for example: her mother has pancreatic cancer but she found out by a lump under her arm, her iPhone battery held out from 16% for over 4 hours, she was ‘trudging through knee high snow but left foot prints etc etc)And then the ending - Darby morphs into John McLane from Die Hard!All in all, a good read but I wouldn’t say it deserves higher than 2.5 stars.

I originally rated this 3 stars but the more I think about it the more I dislike haha!Well first off this isn’t a mystery and that disappointed me a lot. You find out the mystery right away and the rest is pretty much an action thriller, which I think is important to know before reading cos this was marketed like a mystery and it isn’t. Now I love my action and thriller but I found too much of this completely unbelievable and having a lot of plot holes.I predicted every single “twist” and oh my god do they just keep coming but somehow they’re very easy to guess? (I say twist lightly cos like I said it’s not a mystery book but does have a lot of predictable turns).I did read this very quick and the gore was really good but otherwise I find myself struggling to find positives about this book.Just very meh.

No Exit is a suspenseful novel that will have the average reader full of angst, hoping and wondering if the heroine survives the night.What. A. Book! This reads like a movie, and is really, really enjoyable. I found it really difficult to put this page-turner down.This book had my stomach in knots. I was completely invested in the characters, the plot, just everything about it. The author successfully made me sad when I was meant to be sad; scared and nervous when I was meant to be scared and nervous. Mad, glad and so on. The point is, this was easy to engage with.I LOVED the setting of this book, and it undoubtedly contributed to the chilling nature of this story. The snow is falling and piling up, up, up, and the air is bitter cold with a night sky that is as dark as can be, and Darby is stuck in a quaint rest-stop with four strangers, with practically no exit due to the unforgiving nature of the weather. I mean, this setting was always going to pull me in. It’s one of my worst nightmares.The characters were likeable, devilish and all round effective in connecting with me as a reader. Darby was a hardcore heroine that I couldn’t help but root for all throughout. The big baddie was mediocrely vicious, but it still unnerved me, because you don’t need to be all that clever to be a bad guy capable of horrific violence. I don’t know how many times I could hear Jennifer Love Hewitt from I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, screaming at her bad guy: *shoots gun* “Just *bang!* f****ng *bang!* DIE!”Overall, I read this within two days and I’m rating it 5 stars; what an awesome and nerve-wracking read this is. Sometimes when you read a book, unlikeable narrators, plot holes or what not can cause issues, but the truth is I didn’t notice any such problems because of how fast paced this book was, and how riled up I was to see how it all finished. I thoroughly loved this, and recommend it without hesitation for all mystery/thriller lovers. Hopefully it won’t leave your nerves in tatters, but if it does, hey, you aren’t alone! I’ll definitely pick up whatever Taylor Adams writes next.

Rushing to get home to her Mother, with whom she has a fraught and estranged relationship and is currently fighting cancer, Darcy is caught up in a major snow storm and has rinsed refuge at a rest stop. It seems she isn't the only one and at first almost all of her fellow stuck travellers seem nice. However when Darcy discovers a young girl locked in a cage in the back of one of the parked vehicles Darcy must find out who it belongs to, who she can trust and how to free the girl and get away from the situation with no weapon, no mobile phone and in the snow storm of the century.I had very high hopes from this book based on its many positive reviews and I'm left scratching my head at how so many people enjoyed it. There were no likeable characters, there was no character growth and they all felt very stiff and wooden. The author made a mistake I think I'm letting the reader know who the van belonged to so early, after that the twists were obvious. It was extremely drawn out so much so I found myself skim reading a lot, it would have worked much better as a novella or by at least leaving the reader guessing a little more instead of revealing twists too early. The violence was far too gratuitous, I am a huge horror fan and it would have been felt too much for a horror book never mind a thriller. The throw in of the Addison's was bizarre and unnecessary and a little ridiculous which aims to the whole book really. Too far fetched, seemingly un-killable bad guy. Genuinely not sure how it has received so many five star reviews of you like fast-paced, twisty thrillers give this one a miss.