NO EXIT has an alternative ending. Maybe I’ll do a blog piece on the ending I’d originally planned… this resolution was darker and twistier, but ultimately felt like too much additional “ending” bolted onto the story’s climax. Shutting your fingers inside a door hurts. Not sure why I felt the need to test this at home, but the findings are hard to argue with.Īccording to Google, there’s a lot of crime at rest stops. After hours + high vehicle traffic + low police presence = a fun setting for a thriller.

Nail guns can penetrate soft targets, such as human flesh, at distances up to around 10 feet. Thanks, YouTube. My mom came up with the title NO REST, which made changing it extra hard! Thank God for coffee.īook titles are hard. Originally this one was NO REST, which, although poetic and loaded with narrative meaning, didn’t quite convey the intensity/genre of the novel. You won't miss the sleep.My writing “power hours” are apparently 5 a.m. If anyone suffers from insomnia, put it to good use. This is a tight and rapid fire novel I raced through in a day. Who can she trust? Cut off from civilization and no cell phone service, Darby will have to be vigilant and attempt to stay one step ahead of an unknown threat.Īs the storm continues to lock them in place, secrets are revealed, dangers arise and the fate of all will ultimately be placed in a college girl's hands. Someone in this refuge is either a child abuser, kidnapper or both but who? Encountering three men and a woman, Darby has to determine which of them has imprisoned the little girl and then try to work out a rescue. She is horrified to see a young girl locked in a dog kennel, her small hand trying to reach through the bars. Looking to get an idea, she peaks into the back of a gray van with the windows covered up, although a towel covering one window has fallen down. On her way towards the small shelter, she is curious as to who the others may be.

Unfortunately, a severe snowstorm has whipped up and as she realizes she is not going to make it, exits from the highway to a rest stop where there appears to be other refugees from the storm. As she reflects on her own dubious behavior toward her mother, she is hoping she can find forgiveness. Leaving in an old car she named Blue, she is going to try to make it back from Colorado University in time to say a last good-bye to her mother dying in a hospital. Everything starts and ends in 12 hours.ĭarby Thorne, sophomore college student, gets an urgent e-mail from her sister back at their home in Utah. Taylor Adams’ latest thriller, “No Exit,” goes one better. All the action unfolds in an unending stream. My favorite kind of suspense thriller begins and ends within a 24-hour period or less.

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