The Woods is a strong thriller with an unreliable narrator and a gripping plot. The story is unpredictable with plenty of suspense and atmosphere. Highly recommended to readers who enjoy complex psychological thrillers. Be sure to check out The Woods today!

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Good but predictable.
I wasn't able to put down once i started reading it. The good thing about this book is its narration while the bad thing is that i somehow predicted the end but overall it's a good thriller to read.
There's a lot from Tess's childhood that she would rather forget. Ten years ago, Tess's older sister died. Ruled a tragic accident, the only witness was Tess herself, but she has never been able to remember what happened that night in the woods. But still her past is haunting her.
Thanks to NetGalley and Sphere for giving me an advanced copy of this book.

Tense thriller that I could not put down.

The narrator is engaged if somewhat unreliable and the book puts you on edge from the get go.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book.

I wasn't able to finish this book and so I won't be reviewing it on my blog or Booktube channel. I couldn't connect with the main character or her struggles, and so I wasn't able to get invested in the story. I was hoping that the atmospheric writing would draw me in but it didn't. I think the author had a tendency to over describe things, and it all got a bit much. I was expecting more of a creepy thriller!

good read guessed one of the outcomes earlier on but not the other .a complex story about family /blended family .

‘The Woods’ is a very atmospheric book. The atmosphere has become one of the characters with how much pull it holds with the reader. This is exactly the kind of book I love to read!

A good book with a good murder mystery thrown in and how it still effects us years later. Great book xx

I got 1/3rd of the way through this book but it was a struggle. It was too meandering and vague for me, instead of building the mystery it was just irritating and repetitive.

So this is one of those novels where I found myself silently questioning everything, yet the answers were not revealed until almost the end.

Its intricate plot invites apprehension and suspicion to patiently creep in and out of "The Woods", heightening the tension along with my curiosity.

Knowing who or what to believe is a mammoth task. I began greedily eyeing EVERYONE with the kind of doubt that lingers, only to realise that sometimes you really can’t see "The Woods" for the trees!

For me the pace is one I’d describe as broodingly suspenseful. It didn’t rush itself, although there were occasions where I wish it had as some of the characters were extremely high-maintenance, often drainingly so. While their behaviour provided the catalyst to read on, equally they drove me nuts!

Overall the story is tragic and haunting, and one where truth and consequence lie in wait.

I'm a sucker for 'girl returns to hometown and faces her past' stories, and The Woods truly fits the bill. Mysterious, thrilling, and with an unreliable narrator at times, I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

A fascinating novel, if a bit scary at times. The writer has a beautiful and seamlessly flowing narrating style and I literally could jot put the book down.

This was such a creepy and atmospheric book. I've read quite a few books where woodland or forest featured heavily but this is definitely one of the best and created such a sense of tension and foreboding that the woods actually felt like another character. Tess's fear and desperation to discover what happened to her sister was so compelling it was as if i was right there with her. With so many red herrings and twists i was still surprised even at the final pages. This is without a doubt one of the best books i've read this year.

The atmosphere in this novel is something else. THOSE WOODS! the fascination held by the girls, the anticipation of why they go in and ho w they get there is exciting. The narrator is one of the girls who went in - she came out but her sister didn't. So starts the novel of then finding out what the surviving sister really does know about what went on in that forest.

The scene setting, descriptions and general creepiness are chilling. There's a sense of the unknown, a forest which has taken on very spooky qualities and everything is described very well - from the crunch of the leaves to the blanket of darkness even in day time.

Characters are well drawn and getting inside their heads is good. Oh just who is telling the truth?

I did find the novel overly long however and there's too much writing for the story if that makes sense. The setting does take over (which I did like) but the plot seems to drag. The ending was disappointing for me too but I feel if the novel had been shorter and more compact, this would have worked better for me.

So, not my cup of tea but the setting is chillingly good.

I wasn’t really a fan of The Woods.
I found the plot interesting but there’s a little bit too much going on and I wasn’t able to understand what was going on until around 60% of the way through which is a little insane!
Characters are well written and I could picture them well in my mind but overall this just wasn’t my cup of tea.

This was one of those strangely compelling reads that unsettled from the off. Tess is haunted by memories of her sister. She is convinced the death was no accident, and her fear of the woods surrounding her old family home prevents her from visiting.
Details are slow to come by. Tess is shown to be struggling with her mental health from the outset, and we’re never quite sure what she recalls accurately and what is deliberately being concealed.
When she is given the news that her stepmother is close to death Tess knows she should visit. But her fear of what she remembers is a huge barrier. What we do know is her family is not a cohesive unit. She has had a problematic relationship with her stepbrothers for years, and her reluctance to look into what happened definitely makes us wonder what she’s hiding.
At its heart this was a story of complex relationships. There are numerous secrets and it’s only as we unravel them all that we can establish exactly what happened all those years ago when two girls went into the woods and only one came out.
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this in exchange for my thoughts.

I started The Woods meaning to just see how it might shape up but then it seemed I’d barely taken a breath and I was done. Utterly addictive, totally compelling and beautifully plotted throughout.

The unreliable narrator trope has been popular for a while to differing standards – in Tess we have a classic example of how to do it really really well- she is unreliable and knows it- yet she is determined to uncover the truth. But is it a truth she can live with?

The group dynamic of fractured and reformed family is intensely involving, set during a Summer when a killer is on the loose. In present day the group return home to sit at the deathbed of one of their own- but old rivalries and half remembered events set up a collision course of repercussions..

It really is an excellent psychological thriller, atmospheric and disturbing both in character and event and the ending is perfectly done. Wonderful.

Highly Recommended .