Books to Borrow Roaring Spring Community Library Recommends

Reading NO EXIT makes you feel as though you’re riding a roller coaster. It begins out slowly, but after you get through the first obvious twist, it quickly picks up speed and there is no way out until the very end. No Exit has all the elements of a successful thriller film: a clever setup, a few unnerving characters, and engaging storytelling that will keep you guessing right up until the very end.

When you think you have everything worked out, something will change. The turns are precisely timed. Without giving away the story, Darby Thorne gets stuck in a strong blizzard in the Rockies of Colorado while en route to Utah to visit her dying mother. She was forced to wait out a storm at a small town rest area because the nearby roads were closed. In the room, she is having meetings with four total strangers. Darby ventures back outside into the storm in an effort to locate a signal so she can call home, but when she does, she finds something terrible in the back of the van that is parked next to her car.

It’s hardly a novel idea, but NO EXIT elevates it even further by elevating the idea of strangers being cooped up in small places. The plot of the book develops like that of a dark and gritty thriller film, complete with a spooky setting, sinister people, unsettling suspense that never lets up, and a plot line that moves at breakneck speed.

The twists are expertly introduced almost everywhere in each chapter, keeping you reading for hours on end. Although the concept of a small group of strangers confined in a limited space is not new, NO EXIT redefines it. The plot of the book develops like that of a dark and gritty thriller film, complete with a spooky setting, sinister people, unsettling suspense that never lets up, and a plot line that moves at breakneck speed. You will read all the chapters because of how carefully the twists are laid out.