My thoughts
I received an audio from Macmillan via NetGalley for this book. Karissa Vacker is the narrator and did a fabulous job with this book. She kept the characters straight and the book moving at a great pace.
An edge of your seat story in almost all parts. I figured ou who did what and who is who. I did figure out who one character was. That was the only part I found unbelievable but still loved the book/audio.
Imagine being in a bunker underground in total blackness. The only light coming when someone comes to bring you food. Or water. Or unimaginable abuse. Imagine what it would feel like if you stopped seeing the light. Almost out of food. Almost out of water. Chained to a wall. What would you do? Knowing there were other girls before you that didn't make it. Names carved on wood. Some advice to help you carved in wood. No way to get out. Until someone does open that door.
Audrey is a search and rescue expert. She lost her best friend many years ago and won't let go of the search for her. Audrey goes to great lengths to help find missing people. Audrey has a dod named Barry that I fell in love with. He's the best. He's also trained to find people. Both alive and dead people. One day as they are hiking Barry goes nuts and leads Audrey to a door. A door to a bunker.
This was a fast paced story. It kept my attention all the way through. I truly didn't want to put it down. It's one you can easily read in a day. It starts out good and ends up good.
Thank you NetGalley, St Martin's Press and Macmillan Audio for this ARC.
4.75 stars...
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A search & rescue expert. A kidnapped woman. The lost girls who haunt them both.
"Veteran narrator [Karissa] Vacker performs the novel skillfully.... Her soothing voice, clarity, and intonation draw the listener into the story, while her convincing performance of Theo will hold their attention until the very last syllable." —Booklist on A Killing Cold (Starred Review)
There is a girl in a basement.
The door has stopped opening.
The light is gone.
Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive?
Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there’s always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town’s most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of what happened to the girls before.
Kate Alice Marshall, bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods, No One Can Know, and A Killing Cold, is back with the thrilling new novel Ashley Winstead calls, "magnetic, shocking, heartbreaking, and unputdownable."
"Narrator Karissa Vacker, with scores of audiobooks under her belt, provides a pitch-perfect performance... [her] voice is a solid touchstone guiding listeners through shocks and twists." —Booklist on What Lies in the Woods
"Veteran narrator [Karissa] Vacker performs the novel skillfully.... Her soothing voice, clarity, and intonation draw the listener into the story, while her convincing performance of Theo will hold their attention until the very last syllable." —Booklist on A Killing Cold (Starred Review)
There is a girl in a basement.
The door has stopped opening.
The light is gone.
Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive?
Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there’s always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town’s most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of what happened to the girls before.
Kate Alice Marshall, bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods, No One Can Know, and A Killing Cold, is back with the thrilling new novel Ashley Winstead calls, "magnetic, shocking, heartbreaking, and unputdownable."
"Narrator Karissa Vacker, with scores of audiobooks under her belt, provides a pitch-perfect performance... [her] voice is a solid touchstone guiding listeners through shocks and twists." —Booklist on What Lies in the Woods
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