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A review by lenemsl
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Did not finish book. Stopped at 70%.
I should have dnf'ed it sooner, tbh, but I saw all the great reviews and kept hoping it would start getting good at some point.
Cooper comes across as a fairly unreliable narrator who is pretty delutional. He has PTSD, have severe anxiety attacks that makes him completely out of it for hours at a time and have at some point been a danger to the people around him due to flashbacks from the war, but he has absolutely no understanding of why his in laws might have a point about worrying about him being a single parent to his and their deceased daughte's baby. Instead he kidnaps said baby and take her to a remote cabin. What if he has a panic attack and baby dies? What if he dies during a panic attack? And his plan of complete isolation from the world and any education or anything till the kid is 18? Talk about setting the kid up for failure and focusing and what he wants rather than whats good for her.
Then the instalove thing? Completely lost me. Woman straight out of abusive marriage to being in love with a veteran hiding out with his young daughter in the woods, paranoid and overprotective to a fault, who wont actually tell her anything about anything. Him finding it so hot that she could cook and being a man who had urges and needs.
The last 30% of the book could have been the most mindblowing twist after twist and I still wished I had DNF'ed it sooner.
Cooper comes across as a fairly unreliable narrator who is pretty delutional. He has PTSD, have severe anxiety attacks that makes him completely out of it for hours at a time and have at some point been a danger to the people around him due to flashbacks from the war, but he has absolutely no understanding of why his in laws might have a point about worrying about him being a single parent to his and their deceased daughte's baby. Instead he kidnaps said baby and take her to a remote cabin. What if he has a panic attack and baby dies? What if he dies during a panic attack? And his plan of complete isolation from the world and any education or anything till the kid is 18? Talk about setting the kid up for failure and focusing and what he wants rather than whats good for her.
Then the instalove thing? Completely lost me. Woman straight out of abusive marriage to being in love with a veteran hiding out with his young daughter in the woods, paranoid and overprotective to a fault, who wont actually tell her anything about anything. Him finding it so hot that she could cook and being a man who had urges and needs.
The last 30% of the book could have been the most mindblowing twist after twist and I still wished I had DNF'ed it sooner.