{"id":19127,"date":"2022-06-24T07:59:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19127"},"modified":"2022-06-23T18:11:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:11:54","slug":"book-30-of-52-the-woods-are-always-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/book-30-of-52-the-woods-are-always-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 30 (of 52) &#8211; The Woods Are Always Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19128\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/woodswatching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19128\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19128\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/woodswatching.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/woodswatching.jpg 424w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/woodswatching-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Woods Are Always Watching &#8211; Stephanie Perkins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two high school best friends go on a camping trip as a last fling before they go their separate ways for college.\u00a0 An argument the first night puts them on edge, but the events of the second day draw them back together, thanks to a sinkhole, a broken ankle, dead bodies, a missing hand, and a duo of murderous men who hunt them individually and, eventually, together.\u00a0 In order to escape, they will need some help from mother nature.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Woods Are Always Watching<\/em>, a young adult thriller from Stephanie Perkins, entered my household as a birthday gift for my nearly 70-year-old mother.\u00a0 Now, you may be asking yourself &#8220;who would buy a young adult thriller for an old lady?&#8221;\u00a0 A valid question, dear reader.\u00a0 When all you know about your co-worker is that they like to read, and you head to the local bookstore with your pre-teen child and have them pick out the book, this is the result.\u00a0 So why did I read it?\u00a0 It was there.\u00a0 Perkins tells a tale.\u00a0 An unlikely tale, but a tale none the less.\u00a0 Nothing really happens for the first half of the book, other than the big argument that nearly drive the girls apart but pick up considerably in the second half.\u00a0 The ending is so ludicrous that you won&#8217;t even bother questioning it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two high school best friends go on a camping trip as a last fling before they go their separate ways for college.\u00a0 An argument the first night puts them on edge, but the events of the second day draw them back together, thanks to a sinkhole, a broken ankle, dead bodies, a missing hand, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3824,10118,10117],"class_list":["post-19127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-mom","tag-stephanie-perkins","tag-the-woods-are-always-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19129,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19127\/revisions\/19129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}