📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 These Silent Woods
AUTHOR: Kimi Cunningham Grant @kimicgrant
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: November 16, 2021
The Review 📚 These Silent Woods
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- This was this month’s selection for @thebooktroop Book Club and it sounded really mysterious.
💜 What I liked:
- There is some suspense to this story. Cooper has been hiding in the woods with Finch for years. He has secrets and a creepy guy named Scorland is checking up on them. Then a girl ends up missing and everything threatens to come crashing down. It’s stressful but the ending is so beautiful.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- This is a slow burn book. While you are told a lot about the past, the present is not action packed until the end.
🚦 My face at the end: 😹
💬 The Narrator:
- Bronson Pinchot narrates most of the book so I found myself remembering a little Perfect Strangers action (in a way). It was a joy to listen to. Stephanie Willis does a small portion as well, and her voice is clear.
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Remote location
- 2. Past secrest
- 3. Strangers
- 4. Grace
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Cooper and Finch are living off the grid. But will Cooper’s past catch up to him?
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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📘 Summary 📚 These Silent Woods
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.