WHAT LIES IN THE WOODS BY KATE ALICE MARSHALL

What Lies in the Woods is a solid thriller but I don't feel like it was as dark and clever as it's been made out to be. It reminded me too much of A Flicker in the Dark. 

​Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: January 17, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: None. 
Pages: 326 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: ​Book of the Month box.

They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison. They were heroes . . . but they were liars.

Kate Alice Marshall's What Lies in the Woods is a thrilling novel about friendship, secrets, betrayal, and lies - and having the courage to face the past.

Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds and lived to identify the man who had hurt her. The girls’ testimony put away a serial killer, wanted for murdering six women. They were heroes.

And they were liars.

For decades, the friends have kept a secret worth killing for. But now Olivia wants to tell, and Naomi sets out to find out what really happened in the woods—no matter how dangerous the truth turns out to be.

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What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall is a psychological thriller/mystery novel that follows a woman who goes back to her childhood hometown years after being almost stabbed to death as a child. The author does a decent job making her characters believable after the tragedy which is probably what I liked most about this one. However, for such a short book it really dragged in a lot of areas. I also felt like it was really similar to Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham with a few short plot details that were different. Finally, the twist at the end? I saw that coming. Probably because I’ve read so many thriller books that its hard to surprise me anymore but still, I saw it before the reveal. In any event, this is still a good book (the storyline is good) but it wasn’t a favorite and I didn’t find it to be original.

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙:
• Psychological Thrillers
• A thriller filled with secrets and lies
• The novel Flicker in the Dark

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