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What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
3.5
dark mysterious tense

I give this book 3.5 out of 5 stars. I had high expectations of this book from all the reviews I had heard prior to and while reading it. For me personally, I did like it, but I didn’t love it. 
There were definitely surprises and twists, but two of the big twists I did end up predicting before they were revealed (one of them I was 100% certain of, while the other I still had doubts, but was still leaning towards a major possibility). There were some slower parts where nothing major/new would be revealed then suddenly at the end, I felt the author went a bit overboard as everything happened all at once. I felt the ending was a bit over the top with trying to implement a bunch of twists and I seriously felt like I was getting mental whiplash with all the back and forth and different twists/theories the author was trying to get the reader to believe at the end of who actually hurt Naomi. I started thinking to myself while reading it was all somewhat ridiculous and hard to believe/buy into. The ending just felt cluttered, sloppy, & made me not like the book as much.