Name: From the Woods
ISBN: 9781635557930

Charlotte Greene

When Fiona goes backpacking in a protected wilderness, the last thing she expects is to be fighting for her life.

From the Woods

Megan Cooper

Okay - so I'm NEVER going camping. 

This was a bit of a nail-biter - a hiking adventure in the woods with some very creepy goings-on to spur the action on. 

I enjoyed this quite a bit. Greene is an accomplished writer and she's able to ratchet up the suspense extremely well - whether it's a slow mounting sense of danger as the heroines find more and more things "off" or the race through the forest with god knows who or what chasing them down. This is a book that will grab you and drag you along. It was hard to put it down (at 1am) but I didn't want to continue reading when I was tired and miss stuff.

There's a paranormal feel to this, but not too strong so that someone who isn't a paranormal fan would probably enjoy it. There's some plausible explanations, but a lot left unsaid/unexplained so that anyone reading it as a paranormal book would find it suitably creepy.

The romance is a bit light - but as the Roz and Fiona are racing through the woods, dodging bear traps and bullets and finding really weird etchings on the trees, they don't have a lot of time for build up. Before things get really hinky, they have some interactions which lays the foundation. On the other hand - the stress and and the adrenaline does lend to the believability that they wouldn't waste a lot of time flirting. 

I was on and off with the characters - both Fiona and Roz had their faults but their determination to keep going was admirable (I would have been curled up in a tent, refusing to open my eyes let alone move farther into the woods ... let me re-iterate, I am NEVER going camping). Jill - I'm not sure about. She was a bully, argumentative, and recklessly ignorant - which is what you need to plausibly get a bunch of women make some of the bad decisions that they did while in the woods

From the Woods

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