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What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini
4.0

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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Read full review: 9/23/2020.

I'm not going to lie, I did not have high hopes for this book. The first bit of it felt like I had been tricked into a non-thriller book. However, as things moved along, I couldn't put the book down as I needed to know what was going to happen. As it started to become more of a thriller book, I was more and more interested. The twists in this book are well done and incredibly redeeming. Admittedly, I didn't and still don't care about any of the characters. I reacted to any deaths with indifference. As is generally the case in thrillers, there isn't much character growth either.

I could get into the issues around the way missing people, drug usage (both legal and illegal), and the handling of these things- but really, it's a thriller novel. The "not crazy, maybe crazy" trope is not new, but, to see it in a teen was interesting.

3.5 out of 5 stars overall.