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The Woods Are Always Watching
by Stephanie Perkins
TW's: grief, attempted rape, gore.
"But perhaps it was easier to attack and sever ties now than to watch their friendship disintegrate over time as they grew into their new and separate adulthoods. Perhaps it was easier to kill something than to save it."
Two best friends decide to spend their last days together hiking on the woods. Creepy and disturbing things happens.
"It was shocking how quickly angry words - just like silence - could alter a shared history into insignificance."
There's not a lot I can say without giving spoilers, but this was a dissapointing read. I never felt the supposedly strong bond the "friends" were meant to have, they'd literally fight and bicker about the silliest and most shallow things. The writing was good at building tension and being atmospheric, but the first 100 pages were boring, and it does a lot of telling and not showing.
There's a twist in the middle that I enjoyed, I definitely didn't see that coming. The ending felt like a deus ex-machina, something happens and it's way too convenient for my taste. The girls would also often do so many rash and stupid decisions, it got annoying way too fast. Josie felt more developed than Neena, so perhaps the story would have worked better if it was her survival tale.
"Now, at last, she understood. Years ago, when she had fallen, the world had kept rotating without her. She hadn't known that it was her responsability to get back up. No one could do it for her."
It's interesting to see Perkins trying out different types of genre, and I will keep reading her books, but this one was sadly not good as her previous work.
"But perhaps it was easier to attack and sever ties now than to watch their friendship disintegrate over time as they grew into their new and separate adulthoods. Perhaps it was easier to kill something than to save it."
Two best friends decide to spend their last days together hiking on the woods. Creepy and disturbing things happens.
"It was shocking how quickly angry words - just like silence - could alter a shared history into insignificance."
There's not a lot I can say without giving spoilers, but this was a dissapointing read. I never felt the supposedly strong bond the "friends" were meant to have, they'd literally fight and bicker about the silliest and most shallow things. The writing was good at building tension and being atmospheric, but the first 100 pages were boring, and it does a lot of telling and not showing.
There's a twist in the middle that I enjoyed, I definitely didn't see that coming. The ending felt like a deus ex-machina, something happens and it's way too convenient for my taste. The girls would also often do so many rash and stupid decisions, it got annoying way too fast. Josie felt more developed than Neena, so perhaps the story would have worked better if it was her survival tale.
"Now, at last, she understood. Years ago, when she had fallen, the world had kept rotating without her. She hadn't known that it was her responsability to get back up. No one could do it for her."
It's interesting to see Perkins trying out different types of genre, and I will keep reading her books, but this one was sadly not good as her previous work.