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kc1234's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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averycanty's review

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adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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? No

4.25

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libraryofdoe's review

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challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

While snowed in at a rest stop, a woman sees a child’s handprint on a van window and upon further inspection realises there might be a child trafficker among the friendly faces trapped with her.

I really enjoyed this. While I was initially mildly upset that the twists were clunky and easy to foresee, the last fifth of the book really surprised and intrigued me and the plot was gripping.

On the whole I highly recommend, especially if you enjoy tense thrillers with relatable leads. Darby Thorne, you have my whole heart.

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lolabelle22's review

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dark 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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manicpixl's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced

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

2.0

I was really hoping to like this book, after I heard it mentioned positively so many times, and I generally enjoy isolation thrillers.
Unfortunately, this one didn't do it for me.
At first it was a quick read, so I wanted to finished it, and I did, but it started to drag sometime after the half-way point and I found myself skim reading some passages.

I found the plot beats entirely predictable and not even well executed.
During the whole book I failed to get a grip on the spacial and temporal descriptions. At least once per scene I was completely disoriented as to where everyone and everything was or how they moved around. I had no concept of the distances since sometimes a movement was described in such details that it took pages, and I thought it must have taken minutes, when it seem the author wanted to convey seconds. I found myself wondering: Is this urgent? Is this slow? Are the sixty seconds mentioned over yet? Are they far from each other? I never knew. (I'm not a native English speaker, so take this with a grain of salt, but I've almost exclusively read English novels for the last 20 years, and this is not a problem that I usually encounter.)
The characters are clichéd, stereotypical and two dimensional. Unfortunately, don't have anything else to say about them.
The point of view seemed inconsistent to me: Most of the time it was clearly third person limited, but sometimes, especially in Darby's perspective, as the main character, facts were used she couldn't know or things described she couldn't possible see
When the point of view shifted, which was so rare that it always felt jarring, the writing style didn't shift with it, so the other characters third person limited sounded just as Darby, which for me was even more jarring (this can be considered nit-picky, but the fact that this took me out of the story this noticibly, to me speaks for itself)
I might have respected the book a little bit more if it had had the guts to actually kill off Darcy in the end, instead of the very transparent fake-out in the last chapter

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tayahmarie's review

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adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that had my heart racing from start to finish…until now. I definitely had to “inhale. count to five. exhale.” multiple times after closing this book. This was one of the most horrifying stories I’ve ever read. I should’ve known though - some of my greatest fears and phobias are woven through it almost perfectly. Stranded in the middle of nowhere in a BLIZZARD with no cell reception/no way out? No thank you!

I don’t want to give too much away, but I will say that Darby Thorne is one determined, brave and fearless character. I always appreciate it when a heroine shows up and shows tf out. I’m glad she didn’t fall into certain tired tropes and stereotypes that many women characters do who’re sometimes written by men.

Final Thoughts: Overall, I think the plot, pacing, and tone were just right and absolutely brilliant. I only saw one of the twists coming which did it for me! I was also satisfied with the ending after initially being confused and infuriated before I realized what just happened, lol. If they decide to turn this into a movie or a tv series, I’m here for it. But the fact that the most mundane, everyday things can take a sinister turn and all you can do is have faith that timing, luck, and a bit of hope are on your side is heart-dropping to the pit of your stomach scary. I’m definitely going to think twice before driving in the snow and stopping at any rest stop for the rest of my life now 🙃. The reason why I’m giving this 4 stars instead of 5 is due to the offensive/hateful slurs that were said in here to somehow help drive the point of how sick and evil the antagonist was? I don’t think any of that was needed because we can obviously deduce that they’re awful very early

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