Book Summary: It Waits in the Woods

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls her into the woods in a spine-tingling short story by the bestselling author of Bird Box.

The dense Michigan forest. Haunting wails. The clip-clop of demon hooves on a bridge to nowhere. It’s more than a tall tale to Brenda Jennings, whose sister disappeared in those woods one fateful night. Three years later, on a solo stakeout in the dark, Brenda goes in after her. She’s desperate for answers, and terrified to find what lies waiting on the other side of that bridge.

Josh Malerman’s It Waits in the Woods is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.

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Book Review: It Waits in the Woods

I am continuing my reviews of the Creature Feature collection from Amazon Originals today with this review of It Waits in the Woods, by Josh Malerman.

I liked Brenda right off the bat. I empathized heavily with her situation. She lost her sister, and her parents have never recovered from the loss of their daughter. Their grief eclipses Brenda’s existence. When she went into the woods to look for her sister, I wondered if she was doing it for her sister, for herself, or for her parents. In the end, I think she went for all of them.

This is a highly suspenseful tale that ends in a flash, but the echoes will haunt the characters and the readers for long after.

I also listened to the Audible version of this story and though the narration was done well.

Pros:

• Short and sweet
• Suspenseful, nail-biter
• Satisfying ending