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No Exit by Taylor Adams

218 reviews

shirleonelsie's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I'm conflicted about this book. I really enjoyed it - the plot was exciting, I was left guessing for a lot of it - but...

BUT

The use of the r-slur, n-slur and a chinese-slur (the latter used many times, as the name of a fictional location) colored this book gray for me. While they were all used by a character who - if this was a real person, probably would talk like this - there wasn't a whole lot of explanation or detracting from the other characters in the book. Granted, only the latter mentioned one was said allowed to anyone else but it still felt very shoe-horned in. Like the author took advantage of creating a character who would say these things just so he could say them. And that feels smarmy. 

If it wasn't for those, I honestly think I'd give them a high 4 maybe 5 star rating. If those slurs were used and there was some explanation or backlash from other characters - something that let's me know the author truly understands that the use of those words is NOT OKAY - then maybe, just maybe, I could let it slide. But that isn't how this feels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Racism, Violence, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

Use of n-slur, r-slur, and a chinese-slur

millie251's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Death and Kidnapping

Minor: Gun violence, Animal death, Cancer, Physical abuse, Torture, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

hgarf13's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It feels like the author has never been to Provo, but I'll forgive him for that. This book is unhinged

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Kidnapping and Trafficking

lauraloo627's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book is really good! Very twisty, fast read. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Trafficking, Child abuse, and Violence

melimar's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book was enjoyable for the most part. The narrator did a great job. The main issue I had with this book is that several times, it seemed like the book was about to end and all of the plot lines were going to be resolved, but then I would look at the time left and there would be hours remaining and another twist would be added. It was ok one or two times, maybe even three, but this happened more than was necessary. It was very drawn out. There were some moments that seemed a little unrealistic. But as a thriller, overall, I enjoyed the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Trafficking, Murder, and Violence

bookhails's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Body horror, Ableism, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Death of parent and Trafficking

emmie_humphreys's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Murder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Pedophilia and Trafficking

michelle_my_belle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This was a very fast paced, action packed thriller. It leaned a little too far into horror for my tastes and contained a lot of graphic violence. I will say, it was a very compelling story and I continued reading wanting to find out what happened, so it was definitely successful in drawing me in and building suspense. Overall, it just wasn’t really for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Torture, Animal cruelty, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Ableism, Death, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Trafficking, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Cancer

brooklynlaura's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, Death, Kidnapping, and Trafficking

Moderate: Violence, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Torture

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Racism

theplantlady's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 This was an amazing read!!! What a way to start 2024 on the reading challenge. This was a pick from Jazzybookish book club, and Taylor Adams waste no time jumping into the plot and storyline. The characters of this book are Darby, Ashley, Lars, Sandy, and Ed. The characters are well developed, except for Sandy, she doesn't really have a spotlight in this book. Mr. Adams did a superb job on the storyline. The only con of this book is it is extremely predictable, but here is the twist, this does not take away from the plot, characters, or storyline, it is still entertaining and will have you racing through the pages to see what the end will be. And I thought I was able to predict the ending and to my surprise, I was in awe of how it ended. You will not be disappointed.

The storyline is dark with a child in the story, however I believe Mr. Adams kept this light and very minimal triggers and was tastefully done. I enjoyed this read!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, Murder, Trafficking, and Kidnapping