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The latest thrilling adventure from the author of the Printz Honor Book STOLEN -- now in paperback!
Ashlee Parker is dead, and Emily Shepherd's dad is accused of the crime. A former soldier suffering from PTSD, he emerges from the woods carrying the girl's broken body. "Gone," he says, then retreats into silence.
What really happened that wild night? Emily knows in her bones that her father is innocent -- isn't he? Before he's convicted, she's got to find out the truth. Does Damon Hilary, Ashlee's charismatic boyfriend, have the answers? Or is he only playing games with her -- the kinds of games that can kill?
- Sales Rank: #335244 in Books
- Published on: 2014-12-30
- Released on: 2014-12-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 5.50" w x .75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—Emily Shepherd looks out the window in the early morning and sees her father carrying something through the woods. A deer? No, it's the body of a teenage girl. And Emily knows her: it's Ashlee Parker, a classmate, and girlfriend of football star Damon Hilary. Emily's dad, who suffers from extreme post-traumatic stress disorder, is accused of the murder, and it is up to her to find out what really happened in the woods that horrible night. The first two-thirds of the story is taut, suspenseful, and very intense: characters are revealed in complex layers, and the woods take on an eerie personality of their own. Teens will read voraciously, seeking out answers and the truth, instantly recognizing Emily and Damon as unreliable narrators. However, the novel gets bogged down with repetitious dialogue and descriptions. In the early chapters, Christopher dribbles out details in deliciously tantalizing ways, but at the story's midpoint, the author withholds too much, and the plot begins to move at a snail's pace. At the peak of the action, intensely exciting moments are broken up by mundane details that kill the lightning-fast pace. Ultimately, though, like Chris Lynch's Inexcusable (S & S, 2005), this is a fascinating discussion of teen violence, self-denial, and conspiracies of silence. And even though readers will likely guess the culprit before the protagonists do, they'll still be hanging on to every word until the end.—Laura Lutz, Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York City
From Booklist
Everyone thinks Emily’s dad did it. He’s the one crippled by military PTSD; he’s the one who came staggering out of the woods with the dead, strangled body of popular teen Ashlee; he’s the one who admits he doesn’t remember what happened and pleads guilty to manslaughter. Emily, though, refuses to believe it and locks horns with Ashlee’s boyfriend, Damon. The two, who share a lusty chemistry from their first pugnacious interaction, alternate narrations, and it is through Damon’s tale that we learn of the Game, a pseudomilitary pastime he, his friends, and Ashlee played at night in the woods. High on “fairy dust,” Damon barely recalls the fatal night’s Game but slowly begins to remember it—and just as slowly, he and Emily begin to come around to the other’s viewpoint. Christopher’s follow-up to the Printz Honor–winning Stolen (2010) sags beneath circular, repetitive conversations, but nonetheless delivers a mystery that grows ever more disturbing with each revelation. Some readers will guess the big secret early, but that doesn’t mean the thrills don’t pack a punch. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The well-received Stolen paves the way for a 100,000 first printing, author tour, writing contest, and more. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus
Review
Praise for THE KILLING WOODS:
*"A gripping, heartbreaking, emotionally substantial look at war wounds and the allure of danger."--KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review
"[A] tense and nimbly crafted psychological thriller."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Praise for STOLEN:
"Complicated and beautiful -- it left me doubting my emotions and missing a place I'd never been." --Maggie Stiefvater
"All the tension of lightning, all the terror of thunder. A stunning, scary, and beautiful book." --John Marsden
*"An emotionally raw thriller...a haunting account of captivity and the power of relationships." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review
Michael L. Printz Honor Book
ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
USBBY Outstanding International Book
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty darn good
By Gatsby
(Hard copy)
First off I want to say I feel sorry for Lucy Christopher, and second, no not really.
Stolen (the Christopher novel I fell in love with) was so good, it would be a tough act for ANYONE to follow up on. Stolen still haunts me sometimes. She created a true classic that in my opinion will stand the test of time.
But this isn't Stolen: A Letter to My Captor we are talking about. It's the Killing Woods, probably the most anticipated book for me in quite some time. This could have been part of the reason I'm not sitting here blown away, and really I should be. (High expectations.)
The writing is phenomenal (although far too many uses of the phrase "forest floor"), the story is intriguing, the characters interesting, and there was enough of a story question to keep the pages going.
So what went wrong? (and really not all that wrong since it still deserves four stars.) Here's what I came up with:
1) The most compelling character was the dead one. This was (without a doubt) Ashlee Parker who in my mind looked like Dianna Agron (who played Sara from I am Number Four.) The curious thing here is that although for the whole story she is technically dead, she was the most alive for me. I could picture her and what was going on with her perfectly. Nice work on this character. Absolutely stunning. Not just because she was labeled "beautiful" but because her actions and dialogue and use of her in flashbacks made the story come alive.
2) I saw the end coming a mile away. It was so obvious that I started to get really psyched because I was absolutely certain that I was going to be wrong and in for the surprise of a lifetime (okay, maybe that's a little dramatic, but you get my point.)
3) It took awhile for me to get into. This wasn't a huge problem as I just enjoyed the writing, but the story needed a little get up and go...to help me, well get up and go with it.
4) I almost felt like this story was a smattering of teen issues today. I'm not going to go into it too far for fear of leaking some spoilers, but hot teen issues could be a reason the ending is disappointing, although it was very satisfying.
Overall, definitely worth reading. Isn't that the crux of the thing? (Just a minute, I'm getting there.) Christopher is so good at what she does that when she comes up with something that is sub-par(in my opinion if it were written by someone else would be labeled as breakout) but since she has already proven herself so good, we expect pure genius out of her. While this wasn't pure genius, it was still high above what most other writers are going to give us and for that, some credit is due.
P.S. Sorry for the overuse of parenthesis. The later it gets, the more I uses them. No direct correlation to anything, except for maybe weirdness.
Enjoy the read, I know I did.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Haven't Read Anything Quite Like This Before
By Tori @ Bookish Affairs
NOTE: I received this ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
First off, I just wanted to say that this book is nothing like Stolen, Lucy Christopher's other book. I absolutely loved Stolen, and I probably wouldn't have ever requested this book from Chicken House on NetGalley if it weren't for the fact that Christopher's name was tacked on it. When reading this book, I hate to say that I expected more from Christopher, but I did. I expected to be emotionally invested in the characters, which didn't happen. The one thing that did happen was the imagery.
The imagery in The Killing Woods, like in Stolen, is amazing. I could picture Darkwood in my mind like I was actually there. The details and precision in explaining Darkwood was just astounding, and it reminded me of why I loved Christopher's writing in the first place. But like I said above, I wanted to be emotionally invested in the characters. Well, I wasn't. In fact, I was pretty apathetic toward the cast. And after learning how Ashlee really died, I couldn't care less. I was pretty neutral throughout the entire book as far as feelings go.
Also there was Damon and Emily, our two narrators. Yes, the book is in split points of views. I honestly liked Damon, to be fair. Emily? Not so much. I've decided that I only liked Damon because I felt bad for him. Sure, he shouldn't have been on drugs and all, but it would suck to not remember. Plus his girlfriend died. I had minor sympathy for him, but it was still there.
Emily was a flat character without substance. I didn't like her at all. She was too soft (except when she tackled Kirsty), and she just didn't appeal to me as a "heroine." I found myself rooting for her to be the next victim. Simply put, she just really irritated me.
And I guessed the murderer about 20 pages into the book. That isn't a good thing. I'm usually really bad at guessing the killer, so when I actually do, it must be pretty obvious. It just irritated me that this book was a murder/mystery/thriller, and yet I still guessed the killer before any real hints were given. It was just a bit too predictable.
Something I did like about the book, though, was the creepy and ominous "Game" (okay, well, the Game ended up not being that creepy and ominous but the buildup toward the revelation regarding the Game was great!). I also liked the fact that I liked Ashlee less and less as the book went along. I love books where the main character(s) slowly uncover secrets about a murdered person. It reminds me of a scandalous Bones episode.
In conclusion, I thought this book was okay. I'm not too overly excited about it, but I think it's worth a read if you liked Stolen. Just don't have your hopes up too high. I think I would've liked The Killing Woods a lot more if I hadn't read Stolen first.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Not what I expected
By Stormi @ BMReviewsohmy
The Killing Game is my first book by this author and I thought it to be sort of a chaotic mess. In the end there is an important lesson to be learned but it was getting to the end that felt a little erratic.
The book is in the two POV's and both of the characters are a mess because of the death of Ashlee. Emily's father is being accused of murder because he comes out the woods with Ashlee's body. He has PTSD from his time in the military and they think he was having one of his flashbacks when he killed her. Emily is now an outcast at school, but she also doesn't believe her father could be a killer and sets out to prove it.
Damon was Ashlee's boyfriend and he is a real mess. He wakes up and can't remember what happened the night before because of the drugs. He thinks he remembers walking Ashlee to the short track but he really can't remember. He believes that Emily's father killed his girlfriend and he wants to make his daughter pay.
Both Damon and Emily are so confused in what they believe is the truth and the more each of them try to figure things out the more chaotic it gets. Emily makes Damon think that he could have had more to do with what happened to Ashlee than he first believes, but then Emily also starts thinking that maybe her father did do it. Back and forth it's a very chaotic and intense ride.
Ashlee wasn't the girl that Damon thought she was, she wanted to play the Game but she was playing it in a whole different way and you start to figure out what she was doing towards the end. I had pretty much guessed who the killer was and just waited to see if I was right. Though the reason behind it I wasn't sure of until the end.
The strange sort of way the author puts Damon and Emily together as potential love interest was just a little to weird for me. Unless you think of it as strange teenage hormones because I didn't get it. Emily hates Damon but wants to kiss him. Damon hates Emily but wants to put his hands on her?? Just to freaky for me.
Even though at times it could be intense I just found the pacing to be slow and a bit repetitive. I was curious enough about what happened to keep going but I think I was just expecting a different story line or something.
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