The Killing Woods
by Lucy Christopher One day, Emily Shepherd’s father, an ex-soldier suffering from PTSD, stumbles out of the woods carrying the dead body of Ashlee Parker, a girl from Emily’s school. Emily’s father pleads guilty of manslaughter, saying he was enacting one of his flashbacks from battle, but Emily is convinced that he didn’t murder Ashlee. The story is told in the alternate viewpoints of Emily and Damon, Ashlee’s boyfriend. Sadly, there wasn’t much I liked about this book. I didn’t really like the writing style, especially Damon’s voice. I didn’t like Damon much at all. He thinks like he’s trying to be a tough guy in his head, and his attitude changed significantly as a character depending on whether the reader was in his head or viewing him as Emily. Emily was fairly decent as a character, and she had reasonable doubts about her father and dealt with the difficulties of being viewed as the daughter of a murderer in a r...
