The Woods Are Always Watching

By Stephanie Perkins

Book Overview

New from bestselling author Stephanie Perkins, and the perfect companion to her New York Times bestseller There's Someone Inside Your House, available now on Netflix!

"The scares here are authentic, and the details meticulous, driven by a smart, distinct narrative voice. Hand this to fans of the film Midsommar who will delight in the eerie world building, the disintegration and rebuilding of interpersonal relationships, and the unseen forces of evil that threaten to break two friends apart." -Booklist

Bears aren't the only predators in these woods.
Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together--a three-day hike deep into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest.

Simmering tensions lead to a detour off the trail and straight into a waking nightmare ... and then into something far worse. Something that will test them in horrifying ways.

Stephanie Perkins, the bestselling author of There's Someone Inside Your House, returns with a heart-stopping, gut-wrenching novel about friendship, survival, and navigating unmarked paths even as evil watches from the shadows.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525426027
• ISBN13: 9780525426028
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Could have been great but...

First off, the cover is nicely creepy and had me really excited to get a chance to read this book. It is a fairly quick read and could have been great but did not live up to the promise of the cover, at least for the first half. That would be my recommendation, skip the first half the book and get the the good scary stuff. The first half consists of two dare I say stupid girls who are supposed to be best friends since forever going on a goodbye camping trip before the separate to head off to different colleges. They spend that time discovering that because they did not listen to Josie's brother, Win, they brought the wrong things and just keep sniping and blaming each other for the predicaments they get in. I almost quit reading then because Neena and Josie really irritated me. It was a short book though so I kept on. The second half is filled with scariness and danger and much creepiness that helped redeem it a bit but the ending is a bit implausible too. I definitely do not want to go camping after reading this book! It could have been a really great book but not for me.