✦ These silent woods
Hi readers! Today I have short and fast thriller mystery!
✦ 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
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.
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