No Exit Review

Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars

Summary Review: It was such a good read! Kept me on the edge of my seat and engaged the entire time! I was so invested and couldn't wait to discover what would happen next! I'm excited to reread this one and catch all the clues I missed that led to the ending! This was one that Book-Tok did not disappoint and I will definitely be watching the movie now! 

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Full review/thoughts throughout reading (SPOILER WARNING; Colorful Vocabulary Warning):
I knew there was a twist based on the Book-Tok Reviews, and I did guess what. However, I was wrong about who it was! 

365 days since the last fatal accident. The count was probably a few days off due to the snowstorm, but she still found it eerie. One year exactly.

That is very eerie. What happened a year ago?

beside a windowless gray van. 

I already don't trust that. 

She would later look back on this mindless decision many times, and wonder how differently her night might’ve played out if she’d merely retraced Ashley’s footprints instead.

Well, I'm automatically suspecting him now. 

she glimpsed something pale inside the van. A hand. A tiny, doll-like hand
There’s . . . There’s a child locked inside this van.

What?! 

“Can you guess who the murderer is?” “Not yet,” she said dryly. “That’s the point.” “It’s always the nice guy,” Ashley said.

Foreshadowing?

I imagined that little hand. That’s what happened.

Did she? Or is there really a child?

pressed her phone to the van’s back window and engaged her LED flashlight, triggering a wash of blinding blue-white. 

This chick trying to get herself killed by going through other people's cars.

she saw a little girl’s face staring back at her. Darby dropped her phone.

Oh, shit! I'd drop my phone too!

Darby, you’re going to die tonight.
That's what I'm saying!

Fifty feet away, the building’s front door opened, and then banged shut. Jay froze. Approaching footsteps, coming fast. Ice crunching under treaded boots. Darby hesitated there where she stood, leaning into the back of the child abductor’s Chevrolet Astro. Half in, half out. Afraid to move, afraid to stay. Paralyzed by building terror, she looked into the little girl’s wide eyes as the footsteps stomped closer in the darkness. And another sound, fast approaching. Mouth-breathing.
Oh shit, shit shit shit! She's dead!

He was looking up, and to his right. At the Astro’s dome light. The dome light she’d switched off. Oh no.
Shit, she's definitely caught now!

Five gallons of gasoline. And bleach. Materials to clean up a crime scene, maybe?
Are they planning on killing the girl?

“Do you know how to cut a girl in half?” Lars asked abruptly.
As if this guy didn't already seem sketchy enough.

Lars had placed something white on the brochure rack. A Styrofoam cup, flattened from being inside his pocket. Her cup.
Shiiiit! Ya, dummy! Ya dead now!

Ashley grabbed her face, his palms to her cheeks— “Wait—” —And he mashed her mouth to his.
What?! WTF?!

DON'T TRUST ASHLEY! Why are you telling him everything?!

Darby reached into her jeans pocket for her phone, to turn on the LED flashlight, but it wasn’t there. She patted her other pocket. Also empty. She’d left her phone in her purse. On the edge of that porcelain sink, inside the men’s restroom.
Smart. There goes your evidence and your lifeline.

Lars stood in the doorway. Beside him, Ashley. The other one.
Two versus one. She’d been right about that part.
They’re brothers.
Oh shit. I knew you shouldn't have trusted him!

“I thought, at first, that I recognized that lady. Because she looks exactly like one of my school bus drivers.” All the way in San Diego.
Oh shit! What?!

that’s not her,” Jay added quickly, gripping her wrist. “She just looks like her. It’s just a coincidence.” No, it’s not, Darby wanted to say. Not tonight. Tonight, there are no coincidences—
I agree! Are all 4 of them in on it?! Not just Lars & Ashley?!

“Jay, I don’t understand—” “Don’t move.” “What is it?” She whispered: “He’s behind you.”
Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!

Ya, dumb ass cop! You see a bloody woman with a gun and don't think maybe she's defending herself?! WTF?! 

You kind of had that death coming to you cop boy. 

Go Jay! 

I did not see that ending coming! Every time I thought the end was coming something else came up! That was intense, but such a good read!  

 

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