The Woman in the Woods: A Dark Psychological Thriller

De: Jonas Saul

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

"The way Jonas built up the atmosphere of menace to an all-encompassing evil is frightening and shocking. The magnitude, the scale of badness, blew me away." —Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond.

Nothing escapes. Not even time...

Something is wrong in the deep woods of Oregon.

Horribly, unnaturally wrong.

For decades, people have vanished without a trace—tourists, locals, even law enforcement. The few bodies recovered are unrecognizable: aged decades in days. The government sealed the area with barbed wire and silence. No answers. No access.

But when four strangers miss their train and stumble into the forest looking for shelter, they find more than ruins and old bones. They find what the government tried to bury.

And then one of them disappears.

The others want out. Now. But the forest isn’t letting them go. Something ancient lives beneath the canopy. It watches. It listens. It waits.

It knows their fears. It knows their weaknesses.
And it’s been hungry for a long, long time.

You don’t just get lost in these woods.
You get devoured.

The Virtual Voice

The virtual voice, it was too disconnected, not enough fluctuation, most of the time monotone, and sometimes the sentences were broken up. In my opinion, this story would’ve been really good if it had been read by a narrator.

I listen to the entire story, I considered no longer listening in the beginning of the story, in the middle of the story and fought my way through to the end. I think I kept hoping for it to get better and found myself wanting to hear how it ended. I believe my struggle was the virtual voice.

Story line was good. Narration was terrible.

Did not like virtual voice. Too choppy no emotion detected where necessary to create our evoke emotion.

Interesting but monotone

The storyline kept me interested, but the monotone by Virtual Voice was pretty funny to me. I couldn't stop listening to the story as I had to hear what would happened next. I'm sure that in due time Virtual Voice will have emotions for the listener to get a truer understanding of the content. Other than that, great listen.

Hard to follow

It’s narrated by virtual voice (nothing wrong with that, I just didn’t notice anything warning me of that before I downloaded it, so I’m passing the into along..), and the story is just insane. It bounces back and forth between timelines. I love psychological thrillers, but this just isn’t what I would consider one.

I live in the area where this happened and the weird references thrown in from time to time add nothing to the story and if I wasn’t familiar with them, I’d be confused.

At one point somebody is referred to as spending a lot of his time at Powell’s. (That’s a bookstore.) if somebody had tried to explain why what Bookstore Boy was doing was out of the ordinary by saying “he spent some time at (choose some random, independently owned bookstore you’ve probably never heard of)” it would not help paint the picture. Also, the multiple references to the duo hiking from Oregon to California needing a bank machine was weird. They’re backpacking. Why the obsession with an ATM?

I listened to it all, because I can’t quit things, but at 1.7 speed it took me over three weeks because I had to talk myself into listening to it just a bit at a time. (I work overnights in a quiet office and would rather turn this book off after half an hour or so and sit in the quiet than keep listening to it.)