 Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to another book review, the first book review of 2019. Happy New Year by the way. Let me know down there in the doobly-doo what you have planned for this year if you were tackling any big challenges or anything like that. Let me know down there so we can come back to this video at the end of the year and look at our goals for the year and see what we accomplished. This year I'm only trying to read about 52 books, a book a week. If I do more, great. If I do under, that's fine too, but that's what I'm going to shoot for. I'm going to try and absorb more in previous years. I have read loads of books, 100 to 120 books, and I only remember about half of them. In 2018 I read 65 books, roughly about 70. I don't actually know as of shooting this video how many I will have completed, but I remember more about those books than I do the year before when I did 127, I think. That's ridiculous. But jumping into the review, let me know all that stuff down there in the doobly-doo what kind of goals you have, how many books you want to read if you're going to read more or less in 2019. Let me know. But today we are talking about No Exit by Taylor Adams. This was a book of the month club selection and I am so glad I did not pay full price for it. The book is okay. I ended up giving it one star on Goodreads only because it upset me so bad toward the end. I didn't actually finish the book. It's the first time I've ever given up on a book when I've only had, I think I have like 75 pages left to go, but I predicted the first twist, then I predicted the second twist, and then I predicted the third twist and three strikes you're out. I just didn't care anymore. It got super repetitive and it just felt like it was never going to end, so I went ahead and ended it. What started out as a terrific premise was completely ruined by the author's inability to hide certain information. The very first twist was phoned in way back at the beginning of the book because the main character just assumes that there's, I don't want to give any spoilers, they just assume something about the parking lot and I just thought it was the most foolish thing possibly could have done and some of the other stuff is phoned in also, but nothing is more phoned in than the twist about page 200 with regards to, like I said I don't want to spoil anything, but it's one of those books where all the surprises feel forced in such a way that it's like it can't be that obvious, can it? And of course it was time and time again, so unfortunately I'm starting out the year with a one star read just because the book was so horribly phoned in. The writing has potential though, so I would be willing to give Taylor Adams another shot because it's not the story telling or the writing that I had a problem with, it was the actual plot and the ham fist at attempts at twists. Now let me add this, I go over to Goodreads and I look at the reviews for this book and I see a bunch of positive stuff about the twist, so I'm not sure if it just didn't work for me because I'm an author and I know these tropes, I know how to use these things and usually me knowing how to use them keeps me away from using them if you get what I'm saying, but have you read No Exit by Taylor Adams, if so let me know what you thought of it down there in the doobly-doo, but until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been another book review, I'll talk to you guys later, bye bye!