Rachel L's Reviews > These Silent Woods

4 stars

For eight years Cooper has lived with his daughter in a cabin in the middle of the woods with little to no contact with the outside world. Once a year their friend brings them supplies to get them through the winter, but this year he doesn’t and it sets off a chain of events that throws Coopers world into a spiral. Cooper has a secret, and now all these years later it may be exposed.

I didn’t expect to enjoy this book as much as I did, I went in mostly blind with no expectations. But this was definitely more of an atmospheric thriller that relied on tone and suspicion to drive the story more than plot. We got a lot of flashbacks and slice of life descriptions, the thriller part didn’t come until much later. I enjoyed listening to this book and was pleasantly surprised by the ending, I didn’t really see it coming and it was better than I anticipated.