A review by zosiablue
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf

3.0

(3.5) This was about two 7-year-olds (one with selective mutism) who go missing in the woods & the central mystery was pretty interesting! But this was designed more like a character study with a mystery in the background & the writing/development wasn’t strong enough to hold my interest in the interpersonal parts. Which is almost always the case for me when a thriller tries to go deeper. Also a mystical raven(?) becomes a surprise Deus ex machina and while I’ll never get mad at a large bird, this ending scene was so out of place and magical that it made me wish the rest of the book had been like that.