How to Survive in the Woods
A Novel
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3.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
“An addictive, razor-sharp thriller—darkly funny, brilliantly tense, and impossible to put down.” —Jo Morey, author of Lime Juice Money
Wild meets The Wife Between Us in this page-turning thriller, set in Maine's Hundred Mile Wilderness—the treacherous final stretch of the storied Appalachian Trail—an addictive tale of passion, betrayal, control, and what it means to survive.
Raised by a doomsday prepper and hardened by the startup world, Emma Sharp has learned how to endure—especially in her marriage to Logan Grant, a charismatic tyrant who keeps her under tight control. To Emma, her marriage is a cage: it keeps you in, but it also keeps you safe. Until it doesn't.
When Emma forms an unexpected bond with Logan’s former girlfriend, the two women form a plan to help Emma take her life back. Destination: the punishing final stretch of the Appalachian Trail known as the Hundred Mile Wilderness.
After all, bad things happen in the woods all the time.
As the three venture deeper into Maine’s backcountry, desire and dread curdle into something unpredictable, dark, and deadly. Someone is lying. Someone is watching. And in the remote heart of the forest, someone is about to be lost . . . or found.
How to Survive in the Woods is a heart-stopping knockout of a novel, by turns smart, psychologically rich, and deliciously dark. In her masterful hands, Kat Rosenfield asks us to consider what it means to be a survivor—and what, or who, you would sacrifice to stay alive.
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In Rosenfield's slick latest (after You Must Remember This), a woman plots to kill her spouse on the Appalachian Trail with the help of her new lover. Emma Sharp has tired of living under the thumb of her controlling husband, Logan Grant, whom she met in a psychologically fragile state after founding a nutrition startup and then attempting suicide. At the time, Logan was a broke Uber driver, and he charmed Emma into marrying him before revealing his dark side. He's since stonewalled her attempts at divorce, spurring her to find solidarity and unexpected romance with Taylor, Logan's ex-girlfriend and former business partner. Together, Emma and Taylor devise a plan to murder Logan while hiking Maine's Hundred Mile Wilderness, a remote section of the Appalachian Trail. When the trio enter the woods, however, their dynamics shift, and long-buried secrets bubble to the surface. Luckily for Emma, she was raised by a doomsday prepper who taught her how to withstand dire circumstances. Her shrewd efforts to outwit nature and her fellow hikers keep the pages turning, but Rosenfield skimps on emotional depth and character development. The result, while diverting, is unlikely to stay with readers.
