After a scandal breaks in her elite New York City private school, Magdalena is shipped off to her grandparents' sleepy Pacific Northwest town to spend a summer recovering under the radar. Over-medicated and uninspired, she spends her days in a fog, hiking in the woods behind her grandparents' cottage.
But then gorgeous wildboy, Bo, stumbles across her picnic blanket and Magdalena starts believing she might be able to move on from her past. The only problem seems to be the series of crimes breaking out across town, and when a body is found in the woods near Bo's encampment, it's clear that Magdalena's nightmare is just beginning. She's no longer sure who she can trust. . .
What She Found in the Woods is an addictive and all-consuming thriller with a twist from the internationally bestselling author of the Starcrossed series, Josephine Angelini.
My Review:
Wow, I enjoyed reading this book! It was dark and twisted, and I loved all the directions that it went in! Magdalena isn't your usual narrator, because she was in a mental hospital, and she admits she did wrong. But there was a darkness in her that we saw more and more of!
The first part of this book was a YA romance, of Magdalena and Bo meeting in the woods, getting to know each other. But then it takes a darker turn, with dead bodies, drugs and blood. Then it became something of a mystery/psychological book. It was pretty creepy!
I really enjoyed the way this story was told, between times in the present, to her writing down her past in a journal-which becomes part of what confuses and messes her up when she needs that the least. It was a great way to get to know her and why she's where she is, and the pacing between the two was excellent!
That ending, when the dots were connected, yeah, the was pretty darned great. I loved how we got to that point, it was very tricky, and with just a little bit of information-or something said a little differently, and the pieces could've come together differently, or sooner. So it made the ending all the more better that they got to that point!
Yeah, this book was just so fantastic, and I enjoyed it so much!
Author: Josephine Angelini
Read: July 20th, 2019
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded good, and it's a SAC 2019 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Expected Publication: September 3rd 2019
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