What Lies in the Woods
Kate Alice Marshall
Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds and lived to identify the man who had hurt her. The girls’ testimony put away a serial killer, wanted for murdering six women. They were heroes. For decades afterward, the friends have kept a secret worth killing for. But now Olivia wants to tell, and Naomi sets out to find out what really happened in the woods―no matter how dangerous the truth turns out to be.
While I did enjoy this, apart from the first 50ish pages (just took me a bit to sink into it), I was disappointed that the twists were pretty predictable. I don't know if this is just because I read a ton of thrillers and can easily anticipate twists (they tend to follow similar patterns, and this felt sort of mainstream) or if others found it predictable as well. Curious everyone's thoughts!
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The twists were pretty good but the whole magical aspect of the story was weird. Other than that, it was a pretty good book!
0this was pretty good. it certainly kept me reading! I liked how there were multiple mysteries, but it did feel like one of the main conflicts didn’t really start until halfway through the book which made the pacing feel a little inconsistent. I found myself starting to predict some outcomes, but there were others that caught me more by surprise. overall I liked how things wrapped up, although it did happen very quickly and felt a touch convoluted. it was as if the author was trying to toss in more twists at the very last second (ending woods scene) which got kinda confusing. i’d rather have something that is more logical over something super complex that is a red herring meant to provide brief shock value. I wish there had been some more info regarding the police/town’s reaction to everything that happened, but I did appreciate that the emotional parts of the ending were tied up while leaving some space for hope.
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