🎧 ARC Book Review: What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

Genre ~ thriller

Featuring ~ childhood trauma, secrets, suicide references

POV ~ single 1st person

Publisher ~ Macmillan Audio

Release date ~ January 17, 2023

Page count ~ 326

Audio length ~ 11 hours 16 minutes

My rating ~ 4.25⭐

My review:

Secrets run deep with childhood friends Naomi, Cassidy and Olivia and they’re still haunted 22 years later.
There were some nice twists I didn’t see coming ~ whoop whoop! This was a solid suspenseful thriller with a shocking conclusion and this author is on my radar now. From what I gather this is her debut in adult fiction as she normally writes YA, so job well done.

BTW ~ I liked that Naomi never wanted to cover up her facial scars.

Narrated by Karissa Vacker for 11 hours 16 minutes and 40 seconds, easy to follow at 2-2.5x. She’s a well seasoned narrator and did a fantastic job.

*Thanks to Kate Alice Marshall, Macmillan audio and Netgally for my audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

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

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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