NO EXIT a gripping thriller full of heart-stopping twists

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So often I read books in the genre that seem to solely revolve around squeezing in as many ‘WTF’ twists as possible regardless of the effects they have on the narrative. She is the only character we're really encouraged to care about and it was difficult when she did so many stupid things. Ed and Sandi are cousins, Lars and Ashley are two other random men - at least that's how the cars outside make it seem. 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? When Darby goes outside, however, Ash reveals that he is Lars's brother and an accomplice in the kidnapping.

Everything interlinked and connected together and the author never gave any hint of it away in her style of writing so you couldn't of guessed or predicted at all, which I thought was very cleverly written. As for Darby herself, I really couldn't like her with her not funny, smart-ass attitude at inappropriate times. No Exit is a 2022 American thriller film directed by Damien Power from a screenplay by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Taylor Adams.I read this authors latest release earlier this year and while I liked that one a bit more, I had a very similar reaction so I have concluded that I am not the right fit for this author. Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. As Lars exits the van to bring Jay some food, Darby goes back inside the cabin through the hole in the wall. I was waiting with bated breath for the final few pages to see what would happen and was certainly satisfied with the ending. Authors, if you are a member of the Goodreads Author Program, you can edit information about your own books.

The plot was interesting and there are a couple of twists which actually add to the plot and are not just put there for the sake of it. Danny Ramirez, David Rysdahl, Dale Dickey, and Dennis Haysbert co-star as the four suspects while Mila Harris plays the victim. She gets caught in a blizzard and is forced to stop for the night at a rest stop, along with four other strangers, when she discovers a young girl in a crate in the back of a van. Frank Sheck of The Hollywood Reporter found that Damien Power skillfully manages to capture the plot mechanics through his direction, and complimented the performances of the actors, especially Liu's as a lead character. Their penchant for showmanship just felt silly and I still don't understand why he would abduct a girl with Addison's disease.I did like that the author gave multiple point of views also because it made it easier to connect with the story and understand just how sick and twisted the villain was. The second group consists of convicted murderers and volunteers who elect to serve their sentences in a virtual-reality prison. I identified with her from the start, she cares about others-but she hates to get involved, you know?

They say that the apparition of all experiences and sensed presences are most common during this time. How can she possibly put the puzzle pieces together under the nose of the kidnapper themselves without giving away her position, her knowledge. Sometimes I find this to be overwhelming and exhausting but I didn’t find that the case with No Exit. Sometimes I wanted to slap Darby for her decisions because I just felt so invested in what was happening and my heart was fucking racing and alksjdlkajs ANXIETY.

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. right from the beginning, the reader is made aware of who kidnapped the girl, so the story becomes more about escaping and survival, rather than figuring out who the bad guy is. So immediately we are trying to figure out who's van that is and Darby contemplate who she can trust. I was definitely left surprised and entranced by Darby herself as well as Jay and I enjoyed getting to be a part of their story and I look forward to looking into some more works by Adams. But the pulse-pounding high wire act that Adams miraculously kept from flying off the rails on the page has been stripped of many of the realistic, gut-churning moments of fear and jaw-dropping twists in its journey to the big screen.