No Exit
- porchswingreading
- Dec 17, 2023
- 2 min read
From Amazon:
A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do?
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?
With exquisitely controlled pacing, Taylor Adams diabolically ratchets up the tension with every page. Full of terrifying twists and hairpin turns, No Exit will have you on the edge of your seat and leave you breathless.
In one word I would say "stressful"
A college student named Darby tries in vain to get to get hometown in a blizzard to see her mother.
She has to stop at a rest area while the road becomes impassible. With no signal and a dying phone battery she is trapped in a rest area with four strangers.
While she's trying to get her phone to pick up a signal she stumbles upon a child in the back of a van locked in a cage.
The van has to belong to one of the four strangers, but which one?
This was such a tense read. Just when you think things may be going Darby's way something or someone throws a monkey wrench into everything.
It's a race against the clock to save the child while trying to keep herself alive.
The villain is truly evil in this and so manipulative. You do find out the culprit fairly early in the novel but in my opinion that didn't diminish the stress. It only added to it.
It's like a locked room thriller but in a blizzard at a rest stop. I'm gonna rate it 5/5 stars 🤩 and probably watch the movie adaptation on HULU
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