Last Word
Ratings66
Average rating4
I slept on this and am landing on 2 stars. While it started out good, light, and a bit funny the ending kind of devolved for me. I get the central theme of coincidences and rarities happening but I thought the darker turn was a bit unnecessary for me. I also think it dragged a bit too much and by the end of it I lost interest. :(
Oh well.
LOVED THIS! Was so creative the way the “book within a book was”. The last 2 parts were whiplash, so many last little plot twists leading to the last page
Ooh this is a hard one. It started out really well. The ambience, the slasher-like chase scenes, especially up until the halfway point. After that, it just got repetitive and it felt like the author wanted to throw in over the top twists and surprises which really impacted the camp for me. Honestly this could have worked really well as a novella, but I did enjoy my time reading it.
A wonderful, page-turning thriller that gets right into the suspense and action. Couldn't put it down. Overall, a good time with many twists and heartfelt moments.
WOW. This was wild. Thank's to Kelsea for letting me borrow her BOTM copy!
This was a great read. Lots of twists and turns. Excellent writing style. Fast paced.
Read in one sitting type of book.
Going to read the author's backlog.
so stupid and 100 pages too long but its fun if you're reading it to/with someone else
4.5 i really enjoyed this one and i read it so fast it was action packed and it kept me invested the whole time.
Ugh. Many thoughts. I enjoyed this book, but I guessed everything that was going to happen, down to the (pun completely intended) last words of the book. There were so many over the top cliches, and the twists were so predictable that I hesitate to even call them twists.
I truly did enjoy the ride, but I'm disappointed Taylor Adams didn't throw in something unique.
This was really good but I think I enjoyed NO EXIT more. I don't think anything will beat that book.
Overall the story has promise, but something about this just didn't work for me.
The characters were underdeveloped and the withholding of background on them didn't really seem to serve a purpose outside of intrigue. The reveal of that was pretty lackluster and just more sad than shocking.
The book inside a book thing, though funny due to the clear contrast of perception, was just hard to read. I get what TA was trying to do, but ugh I did not like when it was more than like 2 paragraphs.
4.5 Stars. It has its cheesey moments and dialogue but for the most part it was a good action packed thriller.
its fucking stupid im so sorry. too much suspension of disbelief required & too many dumb decisions made just for the sake of the plot.
emma's dumb, like do you have 0 instinct de survie at all ???? pourquoi se réfréner d'alerter la police & dans la même veine save you damn life just to save a neighbour you know nothing about ???? or risk your life for a dog ???? im sorry it makes 000000 sense
n how did she survive being poisoned then dunked into the ocean w a bag full of rocks ????? how did her husband instantly forgive her after ghosting him for MONTHS, & when they just lost their child ????? (TOTALLY HER FAULT BTW!!!!)
A fair attempt at a plot twist but a tad too much maybe; it got almost confusing in the end.
2.5
this was fine, loved it at the beginning but the cat and mouse part dragged for me. it was fine at first but then idk i just stoped caring and i felt like there was no pay off or satisfaction at the end. almost no plot twist and the ones dat happend i didnt really care for. it wasnt anything bad, pretty quick to read but just fine.
That was just silly. But the kind of ridiculousness where I'm not even mad at it. If you like the cheesy slasher meets self-critique meets final girl vibes of the Scream films, I think you'll like this too. Do not go looking for a well-plotted, keeps-you-guessing, taut thriller - as we know, I hate those, and I actually ended up not hating this!
⚠️ misogyny, suicidal ideation, gore, infertility, child death, questionable mental health rep
This is a fast-paced and fun thriller. Easy to read and fly though, I finished this in two days. Sometimes a quick and simple read, with a couple of twists, is just what I need.
“ɪɴ ᴀ ꜱᴛᴏʀʏ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ ɪꜱ ɢᴏᴅ.”
We've all done it. Finished an awful book, rated it one star, gave a bad review, and then didn't think about it again.
Emma Carpenter is house-sitting with her dog, Laika, at an isolated beach house on the Washington Coast. Emma, going through a rough time in her life and in a very depressive state, is filling her time with reading, walks on the beach, and playing white board window games with her neighbor, Deek. After reading a horrible 99 cent book, Emma submits a one star review on Amazon, and is dragged into an argument with the author where he advises her to remove her review. Emma refuses and then strange things start to happen, and there's no such thing as coincidence.
I'm not a big thriller reader, but the premise of this book got my attention immediately! I loved the way we got the villain's perspective from a future book and the clever acknowledgement section as well.
This one was well written and full of twists and turns all the way to the last page. Fun, fast paced, and a binge worthy read.
4.5 stars
Needless to say, i would think twice before posting a one star review, lol.
This book was such a ride.
I loved it.
Taylor Adams does it again.
No Exit is one of my favorites of all time so I was pretty nervous dipping my toes into another Taylor Adams book but I was NOT disappointed.
This book had constantly had my heart racing, from having me feeling genuinely scared to shocking me with twist after twist. I was texting all my friends along the way begging them to read this one too.
Another for the favorite thrillers list.