✦ Book Title: These silent woods 

       ✦ Author: Kimi Cunningham Grant

       ✦ Genres: thriller, mystery 

       ✦ Publisher: Minotaur Books

       ✦ Publication Date: November 16th 2021

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☼SYNOPSIS

No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide. Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabin’s shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness. But she’s starting to push back against the sheltered life Cooper has created for her—and he’s still haunted by the painful truth of what it took to get them there.

The only people who know they exist are a mysterious local hermit named Scotland, and Cooper's old friend, Jake, who visits each winter to bring them food and supplies. But this year, Jake doesn't show up, setting off an irreversible chain of events that reveals just how precarious their situation really is. Suddenly, the boundaries of their safe haven have blurred—and when a stranger wanders into their woods, Finch’s growing obsession with her could put them all in danger. After a shocking disappearance threatens to upend the only life Finch has ever known, Cooper is forced to decide whether to keep hiding—or finally face the sins of his past.

Vividly atmospheric and masterfully tense, These Silent Woods is a poignant story of survival, sacrifice, and how far a father will go when faced with losing it all

☾REVIEW

★★★

Rating: 3 out of 5.

This was a very interesting time. I will start off by saying this will not be a memorable book and lets face it, i will forget about it within months. So lets talk about while I still remember it.

I listened to the audiobook and to be honest I don’t really think i would have been able to read it physically. It actually was quite fast-paced but I don’t know, the audiobook was just, different. I say that i would not have been able to read it physically because i wouldn’t have been interested enough to pick it up, so I decided to listen to it whenever i was doing something else.

Anyways im getting off topic. Something that i liked was the fact that we are following our main character who is a person with a very fucked up past. So he is basically a criminal (that is why he is on the run) but obviously he tells you the story from his point of view so you even get to understand and feel for him which always surprises me, the fact that the twisted main character is actually lovable.

However there was a huge reason why this book wasn’t all that great, and it was because everything got told very fast. Form the halfway point you basically know the whole story of their past. The present moment was not as interesting to me hence why i thought that the flashbacks reveled too much too fast.

The father-daughter relationship was quite cute at times and it actually warmed my heart how far he went to save his daughter.

Overall, i would recommend it if you are interested into it but I wouldn’t go out of my way just to read it. Interesting and all but definitely not a memorable story.

✦ ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Kimi Cunningham Grant is the author of three books. Silver Like Dust is a memoir about her Japanese-American grandparents and their experience in the internment camp at Heart Mountain during World War II. Her second book, Fallen Mountains, is a literary mystery set in a small town in Pennsylvania, where fracking has just begun. In her third book, These Silent Woods (November, 2021), a father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past.

Kimi is a two-time winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize in Poetry and a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her essays and poems have appeared in Fathom, Literary Mama, RATTLE, Poet Lore, Tar River Poetry, Apalachee Review, Grasslimb, and Whitefish Review. 

She lives, writes, and teaches in Pennsylvania.ABOUT  AUTHOR

Book Title: The risk

       Author: Elle Kennedy 

       Genres: romance

       Publisher: Elle Kennedy Inc.

       Publication Date: February 18th 2019

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SYNOPSIS

Everyone says I'm a bad girl. They're only partly right--I don't let fear rule me, and I certainly don't care what people think. But I draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. As the daughter of Briar's head hockey coach, I'd be vilified if I hooked up with a player from a rival team.

And that's who Jake Connelly is. Harvard's star forward is arrogant, annoying, and too attractive for his own good. But fate is cruel--I require his help to secure a much-coveted internship, and the sexy jerk isn't making it easy for me.

I need Connelly to be my fake boyfriend.

For every fake date...he wants a real one.

REVIEW

★★★★

Rating: 4 out of 5.

“If you want me to beg, ill beg. If you want me to jump through hoops, bring them on. I'll spend every waking hour until I have to report to training camp proving to you how much you mean to me.”

This was such fun time! I don't really get why people hate on it so much, apparently its the worst of them all?! couldn't tell you because I haven't finished the entire series yet haha.

They tend to not like the fact that the boy main character is not from briar but Harvard but that is something that I love, the love and hate relationship and the constant tension when they are playing its so good. arguably a good written book because you know its not a masterpiece but it was perfect for the time being and It was exactly what I was looking for.

“Chemistry is hard to find and even harder to fight”

because yes, the chemistry was there and I- just had such a good time!

I read the off-campus series ages ago when it first came out and loved every single one of them (except for the last- sorry whoever names where haha) and yes, it was better than the briar u series. 

Maybe it was because it was my first time reading Elle Kennedys books or because it was when I first started to get into reading, anyhow they ogs are better and that's on period. 

100% Recommend

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SYNOPSIS

Lara has only one thought for her husband on their wedding day: I will bring your kingdom to its knees. A princess trained from childhood to be a lethal spy, Lara knows that the Bridge Kingdom represents both legendary evil - and legendary promise. The only route through a storm-ravaged world, the Bridge Kingdom controls all trade and travel between lands, allowing its ruler to enrich himself and deprive his enemies, including Lara's homeland. So when she is sent as a bride under the guise of fulfilling a treaty of peace, Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes to fracture the defenses of the impenetrable Bridge Kingdom.

But as she infiltrates her new home - a lush paradise surrounded by tempest seas - and comes to know her new husband, Aren, Lara begins to question where the true evil resides. Around her, she sees a kingdom fighting for survival, and in Aren, a man fiercely protective of his people. As her mission drives her to deeper understanding of the fight to possess the bridge, Lara finds the simmering attraction between her and Aren impossible to ignore. Her goal nearly within reach, Lara will have to decide her own fate: Will she be the destroyer of a king or the savior of her people?

REVIEW

★★★

Rating: 3 out of 5.

I don't really know where I stand with this one.

I started because of the hype and why not but guys... I don't think I liked it all that much. 

Partially its because I read it on the course of a few days when its suppose to be a very bingeable book, I also listened to the audiobook, I am not saying its a bad one or anything but I do say that I wasn't inmersed into the story and I also lost track of what was going on a few times.

There was also so may political discussions that I wasn't able to follow and didn't care that much to be honest.

However, my 3 start rating is purely and merely because of the beginning and partially the end. 

The start to this book was so powerful, and I instantly thought "this is going to be a great one". The ending was just something else, I wasn't really feeling the characters because again, I was kind of out of the story and the world but I know that if I would have been paying attention, I would have enjoyed it million times more.

I did also lived our woman main character she was just such a badass and such an intelligent woman that and the story a bit better for me.

Sadly, I will not be continuing this series, I just didn't care that much. Don't hate me for this review, I know this is a widely loved book and im genuinely sad about it, I was just on such bad place reading wise. 

Maybe I will try it again in the future and hopefully continue the entirety of the series. 

Have you read it, if so did you liked it? Let me know!

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SYNOPSIS

Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide.

Six teenagers dead. Finally, the killer behind bars. But are the games just beginning?

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives—predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning—and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development…

Defense attorney Robert Kavin is a still-traumatized father whose own son fell prey to the BH Killer. Convinced of Thompson’s innocence, he steps in to represent him. Now Robert wants Gwen to interview the accused, create a psych profile of the killer and his victims, and help clear his client’s name.

As Gwen and Robert grow closer and she dives deeper into the investigation, grave questions arise. So does Gwen’s suspicion that Robert is hiding something—and that he might not be the only one with a secret.

REVIEW

★★★★.5

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Ok, WOWOWOWOWO. I loved this. 

This was such an easy and fast read. I made a bit of a mistake when I paused it because I was doing a few readathons at the time, that's why the dates are so apart. It made me loose a bit the interest but once I picked it back up I couldn't stop reading. 

It was such a twisty little plot, with so many character interwined. 

There was perhaps a part in the middle that I enjoyed a bit less but other than that its fantastic.

The characters were sooo interesting, I felt like I know who they were but I had no idea what they were capable of doing and that's the magic of the book, not expecting the unexpected.

It surely had a few plot twists that I was not expecting at all and it kept my mouth open. From the 80 percent mark on, it comes one thing after the other and I- it was just do damn good.

I really down want to say much but I will tell you that everything is important and pay attention to details. Oh and also, no, its not who you think the murder is. 

I truly recommend it, but please check the TW before, there are a definitely a few of them

Let me know if you read it!

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