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annie_reads_the_world 's review for:
They Fear Not Men in the Woods
by Gretchen McNeil
Thank you to NetGalley for providing this ARC.
I had such high hopes for this book. The cover is so beautiful, the title is great and the first chapter starts out so good. I loved the setting and the atmosphere in the first chapter so much, but then we don't really get back into the creepy, woodsy vibes for quite a while.
I didn't like the main character in the beginning, but I was really hoping that she would grow on me. She never really did. She felt more immature than her supposed age in the book and I really hated how judgemental of other women she was. Being a tomboy is great, but judging other women for getting their nails done (calling french manicure stripper nails?) is just internalized misogyny.
Very hard to articulate my problems with the queer storyline without getting into spoilers, so I'll just say that I wasn't too happy with how it was handled.
The atmosphere in the woodsy parts of the book was great and it did feel like a love letter to the woods which I appreciated. The horror parts felt a bit more YA than adult horror and there wasn't a lot of it until the very end.
I get what this book was trying to accomplish, but it just didn't do it for me and I'm very bummed about that.
I had such high hopes for this book. The cover is so beautiful, the title is great and the first chapter starts out so good. I loved the setting and the atmosphere in the first chapter so much, but then we don't really get back into the creepy, woodsy vibes for quite a while.
I didn't like the main character in the beginning, but I was really hoping that she would grow on me. She never really did. She felt more immature than her supposed age in the book and I really hated how judgemental of other women she was. Being a tomboy is great, but judging other women for getting their nails done (calling french manicure stripper nails?) is just internalized misogyny.
Very hard to articulate my problems with the queer storyline without getting into spoilers, so I'll just say that I wasn't too happy with how it was handled.
The atmosphere in the woodsy parts of the book was great and it did feel like a love letter to the woods which I appreciated. The horror parts felt a bit more YA than adult horror and there wasn't a lot of it until the very end.
I get what this book was trying to accomplish, but it just didn't do it for me and I'm very bummed about that.