this week i read THE LAST WORD by taylor adams.

i read NO EXIT by taylor adams about 1 year ago, and was completely absorbed in it. the pacing was on point and the story was engrossing.

imagine being stuck at a rest stop in a snow storm surrounded by a group of strangers. could be fun, could be uncomfortable, could be downright creepy.

but now imagine you learn that one of them is a kidnapper, or maybe worse, after finding a young girl locked in an animal crate inside one of the stranded strangers’ cars.

there’s no cell service. you’re stranded in a snow storm. there’s a girl locked up and in danger of dying or being killed. what do you do?

that’s NO EXIT.

THE LAST WORD provided the same i’m-on-the-edge-of-my-fucking-seat feeling. the same how-the-heck-is-she-going-to-get-out-of-this feeling. and the same i-can’t-imagine-how-scared-i’d-be feeling.

i read it in 2 evenings. one of my fav feelings is when i am so invested in a book that i think about it throughout the day and count the minutes until i can get back to reading it.

and that’s what this book was for me.