Instead, we had a fresh, young character.Īnd a high-stakes - and sadly realistic - crime driving the action.Īs much as I absolutely did enjoy this novel, it wasn’t free of drawbacks. It wasn’t the typical spouse-is-murdered-other-spouse-must-have-done-it set up that is, at this point, more than a little cliche, really. Uncommonly, despite the fact-pacing, author Taylor Adams did a masterful job of both setting the scene and developing his characters.īecause I could all but see the grimy grout that rested between the brown tiled floors on which Darcy paced in her ill-suited-for-the-weather Chucks, I was able to truly put myself in that room with those characters.Īnd because I was continually fed more backstory, I found myself growing increasingly attached to the characters and increasingly concerned with whether or not they would make it out of the situation if not un-, at least minimally, scathed.Īnother mark in the plus column for this thriller is that it was, inarguably, different. Unless, of course, you’re spending that snowy winter’s day snowed in at a mountain rest stop with four questionable strangers, that is. Now Darcy, driven by a passion to help that is probably fueled, at least in part, by her inability to do anything about her mother’s situation, finds herself willing to risk absolutely everything to literally save the day.įast-paced and full of twists, this novel is the absolutely perfect thriller to pick up on a snowy winter’s day.
Given what she has witnessed, she knows one thing for sure - one of her rest stop co-inhabitants can’t be trusted. Suddenly, there is a much more pressing matter concerning her. Knowing that her mother not surviving the night is a real possibility, Darcy tries to do the only thing she can do, seek out cell phone service and make a call.īut as she’s out in the inhospitable elements, trying desperately to get just one bar, she sees something that she was never meant to see. She was trying to return home to see her mother - who she just found out was diagnosed with an obnoxiously aggressive form of cancer.Ĭompounding the problem, Darcy doesn’t just need to say goodbye to her mother, she also needs to apologize, as the last words they shared weren’t positive ones. Though she knows she should finally accept what she should have already known was inevitable and settle in for a long wait, Darcy finds it exceedingly difficult to do so.Īs luck would have it, she had a very real reason to try to beat this storm.
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