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These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

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kastnc's review against another edition

5.0

Okay I did not expect this book to make me cry! What a beautiful story about sacrifice and grace. I read this in a day, but will definitely be thinking about it for a long time.

cherese's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I didn’t love this book but I didn’t hate it and I really don’t know how to rate it. Mostly, I don’t think this was a thriller at least not the type of thriller books I am used to and that is leaving me unsettled. The writing was amazing - very descriptive and I felt like I was in the woods at the cabin with them. But the tidy little bow at the end let me down.

nerdygrl's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

bookswbeck's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book was a quick read but also a slow book if that makes sense. I can’t say that I loved it but I didn’t hate it.

jb93reads's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

jazkc's review against another edition

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5.0

5 stars ✧

❝Sometimes bad things happen and you’re unprepared and you make choices that seem good to you at the time, and then you look back and wish there were things you could undo, but you can’t, and that’s that.❞

i went into this with the expectations of an immersive and atmospheric isolated mystery.

expectations were met, but i still wasn't prepared, and neither was my heart.

this is the story of Cooper and his now eight year-old daughter Finch, the love of a father for his daughter, and the lengths he would go to protect her that resulted in them residing and surviving off-the-grid in a cabin deep in the Appalachian woods.

father-daughter dynamics will always have a soft spot in my heart, and this simply further cemented that. but this story in particular moved me in more ways than i can describe. this felt incredibly personal to me.

character rich, masterfully atmospheric, and absolutely breathtaking.