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?
MY THOUGHTS
I am in such a thriller/horror mood from past few weeks that following that mood, I picked 'No Exit' for my Jan TBR. And it was a good book to start my year with, such a thrilling ride!
The book started with your usual 'people got stuck in a blizzard' kind of situation and took such an interesting turn! It was like a chess game between good vs evil — between our protagonist vs antagonist, where they kept trying to outdo the other. I like that trope a lot in my mystery/thriller. And add Taylor Adams's atmospheric and engaging writing with this, it was a solid read in this genre.
What I did not like -
Convenient dumb actions taken by Darby (our MC) to move things forward. It really bugs me in mystery/thriller/horror when such 'out of character' actions are the catalyst for moving the story forward. It happened with our evil guys too and that made me remove one star from this book.
But despite this, I really liked the overall story and writing style. This was an engaging book, and I was not bored for a second!
Definitely will be picking more from this author!
Overall rating — 4 stars!
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