DNF at 21% (Chapter 8) I can't force myself to read this. The writing style is not for me (it felt very childish) and I started to get In a Dark Dark Wood/Final Girls vibes which I was not a fan of either. The abusive relationship aspect also turned me off to this book. If you enjoyed enjoy cabin in the woods type book you might enjoy this!

Title was archived before I could review it sadly. Guess I will have to buy it if I would like to read it. I am new to the Galley and was not aware of the fact that the archival date meant that I could not access the title anymore. Too bad

Oh, dear. I don’t even know where to begin with this one.
All I can say (and I am well aware of how harsh this will come across but honestly, there is no other way I can possibly say it and still maintain the honest-opinion-agreement I swore that I would always maintain when putting my bookish-thoughts on a public platform) is that The Killed Conscience is the book that I will soon be holding up as an example of the real lows that the mystery/thriller genre can reach.
I just— Right now, I feel like I can’t even.
Because, this book really hit the shit book trifecta. The writing was awful, like even-I-could-write-better-awful, choppy and stilted and full of grammatical errors. The characterisation was so close to nonexistent that they felt like set-pieces that could be knocked over with a moderately strong gust of wind. And finally, (and possibly the most annoyingly although frankly, it is difficult to tell) the plot-points were absurd and the suspension of disbelief required to understand any of them was close to astronomical.
Frankly, not a single decision, or inclusion of any detail in the whole book made one iota of sense, and all I hope now is that The Killed Conscience will be a book that is soon wiped entirely from my memory.

I love me a good cabin in the woods mystery!

Emilee, our main character, is a plucky young journalist who has been requested by police to go back to her hometown to help investigate an old murder case. In doing so, she finds herself stuck in a cabin with her two childhood best friends, their partners and her abusive boyfriend.

The whole book plays out very much like a film in your mind, which is something I quite enjoy. There's a lot of bickering and high tensions between characters while they're stuck up the mountain and they're all suspicious until we finally reach the (not so) unexpected conclusion and find out whodunnit. The characters all bounce off each other and fit well as a dynamic.

The characters in this book don't have as many dimensions as I might have liked, they fit too closely to generic molds but I was enjoying the story too much to really care too much about that.


The pacing of this story is brilliant and it's filled with action rather than red herrings, leaving you desperate to figure out what's going on. This is another debut author to keep an eye on for the future.

A chilling tale of a serial killer, set in a cabin the woods, and featuring friendships that last through the test of time. I worked it out quite early on but so desperately wanted to be wrong. I loved this story despite the superfluous character of the abusive boyfriend who, thankfully, didn’t last the distance.

Ugh! This is one of the worst books I’ve ever read. The writing is amateurish and choppy. The characters are not developed well. The end is unbelievable. One of the quotes early on is repulsive, talking about being in a crowded room is compared to sleeping like Mexicans. There are grammatical errors as well. I was an early reader for NetGalley in exchange for my fair and honest review.

Journalist Emilee Weathers is just starting her career when a plum assignment falls into her lap. She’s been asked to help with the appeal of a convicted killer, and if that doesn’t make good copy, then what will? But her work becomes more than academic when she stumbles over a body that has been killed using the same M.O. of the jailed and convicted killer. Is it a copycat, or did the judicial system make a terrible mistake? No one, not the police, not the locals, not the convicted killer, will tell her the truth. Emilee will have to rely on her own skills as a journalist to uncover the truth…and to keep herself alive