Taikiklyje

by Taylor Adams, Karolina Masaitytė (Translator)

Po dar vieno persileidimo Elė ir Džeimsas Eversmenai atsisveikina su senuoju gyvenimu ir ketina pradėti naują kitoje valstijoje. Tačiau Mohavių dykumos viduryje jų tojota sugenda. Dar viena apmaudi nesėkmė? Vargu. Variklyje Džeimsas aptinka kulkos skylę...

Per mylią nuo jų tojotos snaiperis Viljamas Tepas užtaiso „Lapua Magnum" 8,6 mm kalibro šoviniais ir saujomis kremta kukurūzų traškučius. Jis – vienas geriausių šaulių žemėje. Ne gyvas žmogus, o balistinis kompiuteris. Jo gyslomis teka ledinis vanduo, jo pomėgis – žudyti atsitiktinius keliu traukiančius vairuotojus. Viso labo – nedidelė pramoga Nevadoje.

Tepas supranta, kad jo medžiojamos aukos neturi nė menkiausios galimybės pasipriešinti.
Tačiau Džeimsas ir Elė pabandys tai padaryti.

Genres: Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Horror, Crime

320 pages, Hardcover

First published August 14, 2014

About the author

Taylor Adams is the author of several acclaimed thrillers including No Exit and Hairpin Bridge. No Exit has been published in 32 languages and was recently released by 20th Century Studios as a Hulu Original Film. Adams lives in Washington State.

Reviews

[RedemptionDenied · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a tense little thriller, about a serial killer, who uses people as target practice. And he's a damn good shooter, too.

A young couple, James and Eileen Eversman are on their way to start a new life. At least, that's the plan. On their way, they nearly drive into the ass-end of a cop's car who's vehicle is left in the middle of the road. Not a good start.

When they stop at a Fuel-N-Food to fill up on gas, Elle notices a creepy looking guy in a black jeep, paying them too much attention; especially her.

Further on into their journey, they see someone in the distance, and stop to give him assistance, and this is when their Rav4 breaks down. Another vehicle, with three occupants inside stops; their vehicle has broken down, too. What are the chances of two vehicles breaking down, next to each other? When one of them gets shot, it's a fight for survival from an enemy they cannot see; and they're on his turf. Will they be able to turn the odds in their favour? Luckily, James has Duct Tape.

In summation: I really enjoyed this book. The tension at times was excruciating, and listening to their inner monologues was amusing. I'll have to check out other books by the author, sometime.

[chantalsbookstuff · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm surprised by how much I liked this book. Not a genre a would normally pick up but I have read some of Taylor's other books which I liked. This one brought angst and mystering to the table. One for those that like sniper stories for sure.

[Kristina Dauksiene · Rating 3 out of 5]

LT/ENG
Kitaip.
Nusikaltėlis nesislepia už padarytų nusikaltimų, įtampa apvelka veiksmą nuo pirmų dykumos kilometrų.
Santykiai pakapstomi nepaviršutiniškai.
Ir pabaiga-ne viskas taip paprasta kaip atrodo.
Visgi netrūko detalių, kurios tiesiog nebuvo įdomios man...
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In different way...
The criminal doesn't hide behind the committed crimes, the tension envelops the action from the first desert kilometers.
The relationships are dug up not superficially.
And the ending - not everything is as simple as it seems.
However, there were enough details that were simply not interesting to me...

[Tracy P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

The synopsis for Adams' Eyeshot sold me. What I got was much, much more.... A thought provoking, deeply disturbing and twisted psychological nightmare awaits.

Tom Zingarelli did a fantastic job with all the male characters. His female vocalizations are beyond awful. Hence, the loss of a star in my rating.

[Sean Peters (A Good Thriller) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Marketed as " The Most Gripping Suspense Thriller You Will Ever Read"... Is this True...That Is the Question !!

Exciting, fast paced, suspensful thriller, with a action packed plot, with some added humour, although a little far fetched story and a little heavy on the background stories.

This a a difficult book to rate as had some great fast paced action, but then sometimes ruined by slow background stories.

Although the main characters were very good, especially James and Elle Eversman who are a young couple travelling through the Mojave desert on their way to a new life.

When their car mysteriously breaks down they are stranded in the middle of nowhere without much water and no cell-phone reception in the boiling heat with a marksman/sniper a mile away.

The action never stops, with this very different story which plays like a low budget action thriller film in a good way.

A great debut author, but a four star for the action and pace, but loosing a star to the slightly far fetched elements, and slower background stories.

But saying all the above I couldn't put the book down, the survival of the fittest !

[Kelli W · Rating 4 out of 5]

As of this review, the author has published 3 books. I've now read all 3. And my conclusion: Write faster Taylor Adams. I want more!

This one, as well as No Exit and Our Last Night, are solid and real thrillers. And they also have a bit more depth and meaningfulness than you'd expect of an average standalone thriller. It's very light. Author provides them as casual subtleties underlying the main story. Kind of perfectly, because if you don't notice it doesn't take away from the exciting story. If you do notice, it's simply an added bonus.

This is a thriller that would make a great movie. I'd cast Kurt Russell as the husband. If you've seen the movie "Breakdown" and read this book, then I know you agree:)

[Elisabete · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, muito bom! Desconhecia este autor, arrisquei ao comprar os 2 livros editados em Portugal quando as sinopses me chamaram à atenção na pilha das promoções do Continente. Não me arrependi. Outros leitores aqui no Goodreads dizem que daria um bom filme e têm toda a razão. Se é verdade que há momentos WTF, um pouco difíceis de aplicar na vida real, não é nada que diminua a trama e a ânsia de saber como irá acabar este thriller. As personagens principais, o casal James e Elle , têm uma backstory bem construída e triste, e quanto mas quanto desejei ao longo da leitura que se safassem os dois para um hipotético happy end. A dúvida, a cada página lida leva a que seja muito difícil pousar o livro sem antes saber o que lhes vai acontecer. Grande história com um grande final, aconselho.

[Gretos knygos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man trileriai turi būti perskaitomi greitai, geriausia, vienu arba dviem įkvėpimais. Prisėdimais. Šįkart niekaip nepavyko to padaryti, nes vyko gyvenimas, bet trileris vis tiek patiko. Veiksmo buvo daug. Įtampa jautėsi visą laiką. Norėjau, kad veikėjai bėgtų. Kad slėptųsi, gelbėtųsi. Visko norėjau.

Elė ir Džeimsas užstringa Mohavės dykumoje, o visai netrukus susipranta, jog tai pasala ir į juos šaudo. Su ginklu pasislėpęs Tepas yra neįtikėtinai geras snaiperis. Jo venomis tekantis kraujas yra šaltas ir jam nerūpi kas mirs. O turi mirti visi, nes Tepas tiesiog negali sau leisti prašauti...

Šioje dykumoje pati esu strigusi kelissyk, buvau priversta nejaukiai jaustis, aprašomos vietos man buvo pažįstamos ir supratau, kaip jaučiasi veikėjai. Visi dygliuoti krūmai ir dykumos vaizdas naktį man tik bėgo prieš akis skaitant, prisiminimas vijo prisiminimą...

Kas patiko, tai, kad buvo daug įtampos ir niekas nekliuvo, buvo logiška. Nebuvo kažkokių neįtikėtinų ir kvailų sprendimų. Nelabai buvo galima numanyti kas vyks po kelių puslapių. Veiksmas sekė veiksmą, kulka sekė kulką. Motyvai irgi buvo aiškūs. Tik vis tik man kažkaip čia visko buvo per daug.

Autorius puikiai išvystė idėją. Veikėjai buvo įdomūs, turėjo praeitį, jiems buvo suplanuota ir ateitis. Laikas nestovėjo vietoje, nuolat kažkas vyko, reikėjo šliaužti, bėgti, slėptis. Ir kas įdomiausia, visas knygas veiksmas tevyko vos kelias valandas. Ir nebuvo nuobodu. Įtampa viską atpirko.

Aš tikrai mėgstu trilerius. O jei jums patinka veiksmo filmai, patiks ir ši knyga. Tokia, sakyčiau, vyriška. Nors knygų įprastai pagal lytis neskirstau.

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[Scott Lyons · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m a massive Taylor Adams fan. He’s fast paced, exciting, and all the books I’ve read have been a fast read. Eyeshot is his third I’ve read but his debut novel. I enjoyed this very much but it really wasn’t as good as No Exit or The Last Word for me.

This is about married couple James and Elle who are traveling to Tulsa to start over after a series of difficult life situations. They find themselves in the Mojave desert and when their car is destroyed they are out in the open when a homicidal maniac and master sniper is playing a game where their life is on the line.

It was a cool idea for a book and it’s short so it’s a quick ride. The middle third did feel a little stale but the last third was nonstop action that I really enjoyed.

I would recommend this book. It’s solid and fun. But one other thing I noticed about Taylor Adams is this is my third book of his and all 3 were in a setting of being stranded with a killer. Fun books, but feeling a little redundant. Still a fan… still recommend. Just something I noticed!

[Sharon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Why did I bother to read this?

I didn't like this book. Most of the story was about a sadistic man who got his jollies by trapping people with nowhere to run. Then he would shoot and eventually killing them at his leisure. I thought the book was boring but I did finish it to see how the main characters turned out. The fact that the story ended was it's one redeeming quality.

[Kulvinskaitė Virginija · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pirmi du trečdaliai trilerio prikausto, kad net šiurpai eina. Kelionė, pamažu virstanti siaubo istorija. Įsivaizduokite, kad su automobiliu įstringate atšiaurioje dykumoje, giliai dauboje. Visur tik smėlis, akmuo ir kaktusai. Ir zombį primenantis šlitinėjantis žmogus su kulkos pramušta skyle galvoje. Mobilieji neveikia, o į jus iš nežinia kokio nuotolio šaudo ir vieną po kito guldo pamišėlis snaiperis. Kodėl? Už ką? Atmosfera tamsi, įtempta. Bet kuo toliau, tuo labiau įvykiai darosi vis labiau ir labiau fantastiškai neįtikinantys, o dar tas jausmų sacharinas... Ir vertimas vertas komentarų, neretai apimdavo jausmas, kad vertėja nelabai supranta, ką verčia. Suprasčiau, jei tai būtų vien ginklų dalykai, bet, pvz. tiek degtinė, tiek tekila verčiamos kaip "rūgščios", nors turėtų būti aitrios ar karčios. "Slėnis nesuvokiamai priminė skaistyklą": kažkodėl, nežinia kodėl priminė. Ir pan. Jei susigundysite skaityti, tai rekomenduoju originalą.

[AziaMinor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Overall Rating : A+

Be polite, be courteous, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet."




A married couple are driving across the country after their apartment blows up due to an unregulated meth lab. They take a detour in New Mexico, only to find themselves in the crosshairs of a deranged sniper. But this salesman and part-time photographer aren't going to die without a fight.

On the edge of the freaking seat the entire book. Honestly? This is probably even better than No Exit. Taking place within less than a day, I was biting my nails hoping to god no one else dies. I was shocked, horrified, pissed off to no end. I do wish a certain "person's" death was a lot more excruciating, but you can't have everything.

Also, I love good marriages, and James and Elle's was so sweet and innocent and the way they absolutely trusted each other made the story that much better.

[Mindy (Book Snitch) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Buy the book or borrow it from Amazon KU.

I only picked up this book because of Taylor Adams book No Exit, which was phenomenal and most definitely my most favorite read of 2019. But Eyeshot... no, not my kind of book. I would recommend this to my dad, but not for me. It has some interesting moments, but overall I didnt like this. Here is the entire book.... A couples car breaks down in the desert and a sniper is shooting at them. The end.

[Vera Brandão · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[jennyliest · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5 ⭐️ Der Anfang war super spannend & auch Schreibstil und Setting fand ich klasse, allerdings war mir die Geschichte insgesamt ein bisschen zu drüber. Gegen Ende gabs ein paar Längen & es konnte mich einfach nicht mehr fesseln. "No Exit" des Autoren hat mich absolut begeistert, "No Mercy" hingegen leider weniger.

[Jim Thomsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Taylor Adams is a fine writer of thriller novellas. The problem is that he stretches his ingeniously simple premises and isolated settings to novel length, a reading experience roughly equivalent to being a torture victim slowly stretched out on a rack. Somewhere just past the halfway point, you become aware of the fact that every action sequence has somebody doing something and also reflecting on that something every millisecond of every second of every minute, and you find yourself starting to skim the pages to get to the payoff, and then you start outright flipping through pages so you can find out what happened to who and how because that's all you care about at this point and you just want to get on with your life. Sort of like the final third of any given Jack Reacher novel.

This is true of Adams' other novels, NO EXIT and HAIRPIN BRIDGE, and it's just as true of EYESHOT, where the stretch is baked into the concept: "A Gripping Edge-of-Your-Seat-Suspense Thriller," it says on the cover. Count the redundancies, and take measure of the tendency to use four times as much necessary space to describe a thought or an action, and you'll have an idea of what lies in wait for you as a reader.

But let's give Adams his due here. He is a master of tone and pacing, and every passage and page is meant to engage most or all of a reader's five sense, and there are enough halting breaths and bloodbeats and bullets and disbelieving blinks to keep readers on the hook for a long while. Especially given the ingenious ness of the premise: somewhere in the desert Southwest, two men have figured out a way to isolate and waylay unsuspecting travelers into death traps for the amusement and ego of a sociopath who fancies himself to be a world-class sniper. This time, five strangers are lured into a fake detour, and take shaky cover as the shooting begins. What follows is a long day and night in which the overconfident killers overplay their pat hand.

Great stuff. But I think Adams wears out his readers by piling twist upon twist upon twist upon twist until the reader cries uncle. At a certain point, the reader wants something approaching resolution, not another detour into the pat psychology of the cast members, or an overlong stalking sequence, or yet another improbable twist in which a victim escapes certain death by the fingernails of their fingernails.

It's just all a bit too much made out of too little. Really, this could just s easily have been a solid 10,000-word short story as a first-rate 40,000-word novella. At twice that length, the padding begins to show, and the last several chapters read as though they were written by a college student pulling an all-nighter on a term paper due the next morning, with Adams' strengths with figurative language turning purple. My favorite examples, from throughout EYESHOT:

— "That was Tapp’s first kill in a nutshell, back in the dewy Oregon field where he’d watched a nineteen-year-old hitchhiker in a brown Nirvana shirt choke to death on his own ribs. His breathing had sounded like fluorescent light rods crackling."

— "White-hot emotions and half-thoughts fluttered through his mind like trapped birds but he wasn’t articulate enough to make them real, so he tried them out inside the safe echo chamber of his own mind."

— "The subgun screamed a shrill rattle, like a soda can filled with pocket change and violently shaken."

— "His hyperactive mind – what an unbecoming trait for a marksman, to be cursed with a brain like a bag of cats – leapt now to his homemade camouflage suit."

— "She hated running. She hated jumping. She hated running and jumping. She hated track and field the way she hated Republicans, slobbering dogs, cilantro, and documentaries."

— "As the last neon bits of Roy Burke speckled the ground around her, she rocked on her heels, wiped little clam chowder chunks of viscera from her eyes, and turned slowly to face his night vision scope."

— "Behind him he heard the Soviet’s boots squealing, the man falling on the fuel-slick floor, his shotgun clattering on cement like kitchen pans."

— "Right now, those hungry crosshairs were finding him, intercepting him like white blood cells zeroing in on a virus."

— "Not the hollow knuckle-cracking pop of distant gunfire – no, this was booming, deep, close. It was as powerful and unsympathetic as a car accident."

My takeaway: EYESHOT, like his other thrillers, shows that Taylor Adams is a thriller writer of uncommon talent and skill. But he's not fully in control of his talents, and until he gets a handle on them — hopefully, with the right agent and editor — he'll never vault into the front rank of thriller authors. Either he needs to scale down his small-scope stories, or ramp up the cast and the stakes for the world beyond the isolated locales of his stories. The page counts and the premises are just not in satisfying alignment.

[Goda l Knygu_jura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Po nesėkmingų bandymų susilaukti vaikelio, Elė ir Džeimsas nusprendžia, kad reikia atsisveikinti su senuoju gyvenimu ir jį pradėti kitur. Važiuojant į naują gyvenimo pradžią, jiems reikia kirsti Mohavių dykumą, kurios viduryje netikėtai sugenda jų automobilis… Tačiau Džeimsas netrunka suprasti, kad tai visai ne gedimas, nes variklyje aptinka kulkos skylę. Tuo tarpu už mylios pasislėpęs snaiperis Viljamas Tepas stebi naująsias savo aukas. Jo pomėgis - žudyti atsitiktinius keliu traukiančius vairuotojus. Džeimso ir Elės nelaimei, dar nei vienai aukai nepavyko pasprukti nuo Tepo taikiklio.. Tačiau jie vistiek bandys. 

➰ “Liko keturios valandos.”➰

Kaip netikėta, kad šios knygos veiksmas truko tik apie 5 valandas, iš kurių 4 buvo kaip veiksmo filmas. Knyga įtraukė nuo pirmųjų puslapių, nes jau pradžioje keliose vietose man šiurpuliukai rankas perbėgo, tačiau gal ties viduriu man pasidarė kiek nuobodoka ir ištęsta. Bet vystantis veiksmui toliau, mane vėl taip įtraukė, kad buvau pamiršus, kad reikia eiti miegoti. Tai buvo pirma šio autoriaus knyga, kurią skaičiau ir man labai patiko! Atrodė, kad su Džeimsu ir Ele bandau išvengti Tepo taikiklio, galvoju kaip išsikapstyti ir išgyventi! Nekantravau pabaigti vieną puslapį ir pamatyti, kas bus toliau, arba sumąsčius kokią išeitį, greičiau bandyti ją įgyvendinti ir pamatyti, ar pavyks.. Žodžiu! Norite veiksmo filmo knygos formatu? Griebkite “Taikiklyje” ir atsidūrę Mohavių dykumoje bandykit išgyventi ir išvengti kulkų! Rekomenduoju šį trilerį, jeigu dar neskaitėte, o aš norėčiau daugiau tokių įtemptų trilerių perskaityti! P.S. jei ateityje teks kelionės metu kirsti dykumą, nujaučiu, kad jausiuos ne itin jaukiai..

[Gabrielė|Kartu su knyga · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nuo pat pirmųjų šios knygos anotacijos sakinių supratau, jog knyga bus kupina įtampos bei nenuspėjamų įvykių. O aš tokias knygas tikrai mėgstu. Tad nei kiek neabejojau, jog šią tiesiog "suvalgysiu". Taip ir nutiko..
Žinau, jog yra išleista šio autoriaus dar viena knyga "Be išeities". Jos man neteko skaityti, tad pažintį su autoriumi pradėjau nuo "Taikilyje".

Po dar vieno nesėkmingo bandymo susilaukti vaikų, Elė ir Džeimsas Eversmenai nusprendė išvykti į kitą valstiją. Ir ten tiesiog viską pradėti nuo nulio.. Nauja pradžia.
Pakeliui į naujuosius namus, sugenda jų mašina.. Sutuoktiniams tai pasirodo labai netikėta bei apmaudu.. Kuomet Džeimsas variklyje aptinka kulkos skylę, viskas pradeda atrodyti daug rimčiau, nei jie galėjo įsivaizduoti..
Tuo metu per mylią nuo sutuoktinių įsitaisęs ant uolos snaiperis Viljamas Tepas užsitaiso savo ginklą.. Skamba šiurpokai, tiesa? Jam tai nesukelia daug emocijų, nes tai tėra tik pramoga.. Rutinos paįvairinimas..
Tačiau Viljamas nenumatė vienos nedidelės smulkmenos..

Kaip man patinka tokios knygos! Kuomet įvykiai veja vienas kitą. Ir sulaikęs kvapą bandai įsivaizduoti, o kaip tu elgtumeisi Elės ir Džeimso vietoje.. Skaitant šią knygą man atrodė, lyg žiūrėčiau gerą veiksmo filmą. Bent man siužetas pasirodė įtraukiantis bei nenuvalkiotas. Visos detalės pasirodė apgalvotos, bei tinkamai pritaikytos.
Aš negalėjau šios knygos padėti į šoną, kol nesužinojau knygos pabaigos! Tikrai įtraukiantis trileris ir tokio žanro gerbėjams, manau, jog patiks!

[Neha Singh · Rating 4 out of 5]

**4 Stars**. A very solid & intense thriller!

This has to be the first time I am reading a thriller set in a desert and I loved the setting of this book. A deadly sniper is targeting this young couple - James and Elle Eversman, in the open grounds of Mojave desert. They are completely out in the open with nowhere to go, with only their broken-down car as a protection. Are they going to survive the bullet of this killer? For how long? Will they get the chance to start a new life in Tulsa? - With very slim chances and so many chapters left, I also wondered the same thing!

There were so many odds against them and so much to lose, and all this made to a very tense and thrilling ride for readers. I loved the couple and their relationship; it was hard not to. Author spent so much time on their backstories, it was hard not to get attached with them. We also got the chapters from the killer’s perspective so the action was not all one sided.

The only reason I did not give it five stars was because there were some moments where I felt the book was a little slow, as we spent a big amount of time on exploring the backstories of our characters. The scenes also felt unrealistic in few places. It was not a big issue for me, but it takes you out of the action a bit.

I loved Taylor Adams writing, which I also liked in ‘No Exit’, so it was not a surprise. He writes such gripping action thriller scenes, worthy of being on a movie. It steals your attention and expand your imaginary senses! Definitely planning on reading my last unread book ‘Our Last Night’ by him soon!

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[Fantastiškų KŽL · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Nora|KnyguDama]

Trileriai – dalykas, kuriems aš nepasotinama. Jei manęs laukia krūva neskaitytų knygų, o gaunu naują trilerį – visa kita palauks. Jau eilę metų juos skaitau ir man niekaip nenusibosta. O knyga „Taikiklyje“, vien iš anotacijos, man pasirodė beprotiškai įtemptas reikalas. Ir žinot ką? Neklydau taip manydama! Perskaičiau vienu prisėdimu, absoliučiai neatsitraukdama ir mėgaudamasi kiekvienu žodžiu knygoje. Taylor Adams atskleidė, jog prie knygos dirbo net kelis metus, vis perrašinėdamas ir taisydamas tekstą, ieškodamas tobuliausio varianto. Ir tas jo didelis įdirbis labai jaučiasi. Knyga logiška, apgalvota, išdirbta ir pateikta be jokių klaidų ar minusų. Vienareikšmiškai – šis trileris ne tik įtempčiausias mano kada skaitytas, bet ir geriausias šiais metais.

Jau kuris laikas gyvenimas nešykšti išbandymų Elei ir Džeimsui. Visus juos jie atlaikė nugaras surėmę, tačiau ir jų stiprybei atėjo galas. Jie nusprendė kardinaliai pakeisti gyvenimą, o pradėti ryžosi pakeisdami gyvenamą vietą. Susipakavę daiktus jie patraukė naujo starto link. Keliaujant per Mohavių dykumą, vietą be jokių gyventojų, parduotuvių ar šiaip gyvasties, sugenda jų auromobilis. Ne šiaip sugenda – kažkas jį peršovė ir kesinasi peršauti juos. Išlipę ir pasislėpę už mašinos jie laukia ir galvoja: kaip išsigelbėti iš dar vienos beviltiškos padėties? O lygiai už mylios nuo jų, patogiai įsitaisęs, po maskuojančiais aprėdais pasislėpęs sėdi snaiperis. Niekada neprašaunantis, viską apgalvojantis ir tikslus kaip robotas. Šaudyti pakelės žmones – jam smagus žaidimas. Ir šį kartą jo taikiklyje naujos aukos.

Nuo pirmo iki paskutinio puslapio mano rankos buvo šlapios. Čia tiek įtampos, tiek veiksmo, pavojaus ir baimės, kad rimtai pagaudavau save sulaikiusią kvapą. Ši knyga man buvo geriau už bet kokius filmus su geriausiais efektais, nes rašytojas taip gerai viską surašė, taip talentingai žaidė su mano vaizduote, kad pabaigus skaityti jaučiausi kaip nubėgusi maratoną. Dievulėliau. Kulkos, snaiperis, jokios slėptuvės man skambėjo dalykai, nuo kurių tos aukos negali pabėgti. Neįmanoma. Neįmanoma logiškai išsukti veiksmo – vienintelė išeitis man atrodė sušaudyti veikėjų kūnai. Bet ne veltui Taylor Adams tiek ir vargo prie knygos: jam pavyko logiškai ir paaiškinamai sudėlioti siužetą, kas ir verta pačių didžiausių liaupsių, kurių ir negailiu, nes verta. Absoliučiai atvirai ir nuoširdžiai: tai geriausias veiksmo trileris kokį šiemet skaičiau. Ir daugiausiai įtampos turinti knyga, kokią apskiritai kada skaičiau.

[ChopinFC · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 Stars

Eyeshot really surprised me in more ways than I expected. The writing was edgy there was a crescendo suspenseful thriller that started in the beginning of the book and didn't let up until the very end! For those looking for a quick read and an entertaining thriller I highly recommend this book. Full RTC.

[Pat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice try, but overdone

Good try at terror, violence and brutality - but a bit overdone, tended to get tiresome. Too much ? Yes

[Ranisavljević Vlada · Rating 3 out of 5]

Daleko od toga da je loša knjiga, ali bi verovatno mnogo bolje funkcionisalo kao film od nekih 80ak minuta. Neko je ovde već dao dobar opis pa ću citirati - " too much made out of too little".

[Ona · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was an ok read.

[Lindsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Suspenseful, heart racing, terrifying - all at once.

[Vitalija · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hmh ... knygos apžvalgą rašau iš karto ją perskaičius, dažniausiai leidžiu dienai kitai knygai nugulti, tačiau čia taip norėjosi iš kart išsakyti viską. Ši buvo senokai norėta ir labai netikėtai gauta. Knyga susiskaitė per porą dienų, tačiau ar patiko? Negaliu pasakyti. Taip, parašyta įdomiai, netrūksta veiksmo, siužeto posūkių, tačiau nepaliko gilaus įspūdžio. Detalės apgalvotos, logiškos, nebuvo kvailų sprendimų, kaip būna filmuose – nebėk į dešinę mirsi ir op matai jau bėga būtent į dešinę. Turinys tikrai išpildytas. Veikėjai įdomūs, aiškiai papasakota kiekvieno veikėjo praeitis ir kokia numato jų ateitis laukia. Patiko, kad knyga buvo parašyta tiek žudiko akimis, tiek ir aukų (na tų į kuriuos knygoje buvo šaudoma), tačiau tik tiek. Knygoje netruko ir žiaurumo, gal kiek per atvirai rašomo nežmogiškumo, bet viskas buvo saikingai. Ar rekomenduočiau – taip. Ar skaityčiau dar kartą – tikriausiai ne. Tačiau nenuvertinu – patiko.

[Marta · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'd give it 0 stars if possible. I was skimming though whole pages of unnecessary and boring paragraphs. Needless to say, there wasn't any thrill or suspension at all.

[Loreta Griciutė · Rating 4 out of 5]

Toks jausmas, kad ne skaitai knygą, o žiūri įtempto ir kupino veiksmo filmą, kuris neleidžia atitraukti akių nuo ekrano nė vienai sekundei.

[amreadsall · Rating 4 out of 5]

From the moment I started Eyeshot, I knew I was in for a heart-pounding ride. Taylor Adams has a way of writing action thrillers that make me feel like I’m right there, living through every terrifying second alongside his characters. I first discovered his work through No Exit, and after that, I made it my mission to read every book he’s written. Eyeshot was the last one on my list, and I can confidently say it was worth the wait. Even as his debut novel, it clearly laid the foundation for his signature style—high-stakes survival, relentless suspense, and characters pushed to their absolute limits.

The story follows a young couple, James and Ella, who are dealing with personal struggles and hoping for a fresh start. But their road trip takes a horrifying turn when they unknowingly drive into the crosshairs of a ruthless sniper. Stranded in the middle of a scorching desert with no cover, no help, and no idea where their attacker is hiding, they have to outthink and outlast a predator who has the upper hand in every way. What follows is a brutal, pulse-pounding game of survival that had me on edge from start to finish.

There isn’t a single dull moment in this book. Adams masterfully balances action and tension, making every scene feel urgent and real. The way he describes the setting—the heat, the desperation, the sheer hopelessness—puts you right there in the desert with them, feeling every drop of sweat and every ounce of fear. The sniper is as menacing as they come, and the unpredictability of his attacks makes the entire story feel like a ticking time bomb.

What I really loved was how Adams injected moments of dry humor amidst the chaos, making the characters feel human even in their most dire moments. James and Ella aren’t action heroes—they’re just normal people trying to survive, which makes their struggle all the more intense. And just when I thought I had everything figured out, the book threw in some shocking twists that left me stunned.

This was an adrenaline-fueled, edge-of-my-seat thriller that kept me hooked until the very last page. If you love survival thrillers with relentless action and nail-biting suspense, Eyeshot is a must-read.

It's a 4/5 ⭐ read for me, because when it comes to high-stakes survival thrillers, Taylor Adams never misses his mark!