This was a really good read. It is regarding two sisters Wren and Sage living off grid in seclusion with their mother who has to leave them when the youngest child Evie becomes sick and needs medical attention. The girls are told not to open the door and not to go beyond the forest because the world is a scary place. Then, when a strange man comes knocking at their door, looking for their mother, they become afraid and run away from the only house that they have ever known and run into the forest.

Now the plot twist at the end had my head in a tailspin!! And one that I did not see coming!!

I would recommend this book, it is a fast read, however although it says it is a psychological thriller, it is also about family drama.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me a free digital copy for an honest review.

The "Stillwater Girls" was a real emotional roller-coaster ride!

This was an untypical and very suspenseful thriller. Filled with characters that were vividly and delightfully described by the author, Minka Kent, I found myself completely absorbed as I was pulled into their heart-wrenching journey. This book was a fantastic mix of suspense and heartbreak.

This was my first novel by Minka Kent, but I also want to read 'The Perfect Roommate' and 'The Memory Watcher'.
Her writing style was absolutely captivating and I loved every minute of this book.

I Highly recommend "The Stillwater Girls" to anyone looking for a quick, emotional and suspenseful read.

I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel, at my own request, from Thomas & Mercer via NetGalley. This review is my own unbiased opinion.

Thank you NetGalley for an advance copy.

The story is told from multiple view points and I was sucked in from the first chapter! The author has a very engaging style and I was reading as fast as I could to see what happened. Your imagination is always ignited by some new fact.... and secrets emerge that plant more seeds of doubt and deception. The ending was not my favorite but over all enjoyed.

I enjoyed this book a lot - compelling, fast paced. An interesting and suspenseful read. Recommended to those who enjoy family drama as well as thrillers.

This was an exciting and intense read. The reader gets wrapped up in Wren, Sage, and Evie and their circumstances. Highly recommend and suggesting for purchase.

A very interesting thriller split between the two narrators - Wren and Nicollete. Each of them has a different way of life, but both have their own secrets and desires. Very captivating, very fast-paced and, a good thing in my opinion, short chapters. I really enjoyed it!

I love Minka Kent, Great book and i love the author. This is certainly a must read for all the bookish bibliophiles out there. I highly recommend this to people. Thank you for the approval.

One of the hallmarks of a great thriller is that the reader keeps turning pages because she simply has to know what is going to happen next.  Luckily, The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent does just that.  Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down.

In part, this was because of the Stillwater girls themselves.  Wren is an admirable character.  Though she's young, she's smart and tough, and she knows how to take care of her sister no matter what the circumstances.  Of all the characters in the novel, she was the one that I was rooting for the most.

There are also plenty of shady characters, family secrets, and lies.  Throughout the book, I just had to know what was going to happen to whom.  Although I knew that the main characters were missing a lot of information (which was later revealed), the omissions never became annoying or interfered with the plot.

On the downside, I felt that the ending did stretch credibility.  Not break it, exactly, but certainly push it to its limits.  The ending didn't feel quite authentic; although, the author did do a good job of laying the clues.

For those looking for a suspenseful read, I recommend The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent.

The Stillwater Girls is a story told in alternating POV’s that will have you wondering just how the two storylines are going to intersect. Nicolette and her husband are looking to become foster parents, while Wren and her sister Sage have been seemingly abandoned by their mother in their isolated cabin in the woods. Just when you think you know how the stories will come together, author Minka Kent will keep throwing twists your way.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 rounded down.

I love Minka Kent - love her writing, her story telling, the way she makes me forget I’m reading fiction, and the way I literally can’t put her books down. I also loved this book.... until 80% in. And while I still cried and enjoyed it overall, the twists in the last quarter of the novel were just too much for me. I still recommend this book and I will absolutely pick up the next Kent book the second it’s available, but this one just didn’t quite do it for me.

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Full disclosure: I’m a huge Minka Kent fan. I read her first book The Memory Watcher in a day and found it completely exhilarating. I haven’t looked back since, whenever a new Minka Kent book is available, I jump on it, no questions asked. So naturally when I came across The Stillwater Girls on NetGalley, I didn’t ask questions either, I just hit that request button as fast as I could. Somehow Ms Kent always comes up with the best premise, neatly followed up with an smooth execution. As with all her previous books, I raced through The Stillwater Girls in mere hours. Part of that is the limited number of pages, only 250, but mostly it’s the writing style that makes it very easy to get sucked into the story, and the need to know what’s going on that keeps you turning the pages as fast as you can.

The Stillwater Girls is composed of two alternating storylines.
The first storyline is told by Wren, who’s one of the Stillwater Girls. Wren and her two younger sisters are raised in a remote cabin in the woods by their Mama. They have no electricity, no plumbing, they have no idea of what’s beyond the forest they call home. When the story starts, Wren and her sister Sage are left alone, because their youngest sister is sick and their Mama is taking her to the hospital. She won’t be gone long. Except that she doesn’t return and the girls are left to their own devices. Their food reserves dwindle, and when a larger-than-life man comes knocking, the girls don’t know what to do. What happened to the girls’ Mama and where is their youngest sister? I loved this storyline. The first few chapters felt very dystopian and very mysterious; and they reminded me of Into the Forest by Jean Hegland.
The second storyline is told by Nicolette, who lives with her husband Brant, a famous photographer, in upstate New York. Nicolette seems to have everything a woman could want: a handsome, successful husband who loves her, a lovely home, money, but she longs for a child and the relationship with her husband is souring. Nicolette suspects he’s hiding something and the more she digs for the truth, the more she distrusts her husband.

This is an intriguing, suspenseful thriller, but with a heart. Getting to the bottom of the girls’ history, finding out what happened to their sister and their Mama, and uncovering Brant’s secrets made for exhilarating reading. With The Stillwater Girls, Minka Kent once again hits that sweet spot only an excellent thriller can reach! Highly recommended.

A really good mystery!

It was absolutely riveting to read and kept the reader guessing until the end. A very well written book with excellent characters and an interesting plot that manages to keep the reader hooked to the very end.

I really enjoyed this book! It is full of mystery and there is so much going on you don’t want to put the book down.

When Wren and Sage are left in their cabin whilst their mother takes their little sister for help because she is sick. Their whole lives they have been told that the world beyond the forest is a bad place, so the girls have never left the boundaries of their land. They have no electricity and no running water.

When their mother and sister don’t return the girls are left to look after themselves, they are running out of supplies and Wren is starting to get worried. One day a man breaks into their cabin and holds them captive, but the girls escape!

Nicolette and her husband have always been happy, until she finds evidence that he may be lying to her about certain things! She starts investigating and in her mind she is coming up with all sorts of scenarios!

Her life changes suddenly when two thin, scrawny girls arrive on her doorstep asking for help! What follows is a story of mystery, heartache and truths which will have you hooked to the end.

I really enjoyed this book. It kept my focus and the story moved along at a great pace. The characters were developed in such a way that they were all important to me. There was also a great twist that was a relief in the story (no spoilers).

The Stillwater Girls is a good read if you like mysteries/thrillers. The characters are well-written and the plot has some great twists!

Minka Kent writes consistently good, solid novels with clear plot line, well defined characters and a fair amount of imaginative plot twists. Highly recommended for fans of psychological suspense novels.

Intense suspense at its best!! I stayed up reading loooooooong into the night. Couldn’t seem to stop! Loved every minute of this book. Buy it!!!

I was expecting another good book from this author, having read her previous novel “The Thinnest Air”, and I was not disappointed! The Stillwater Girls is an engrossing, lightning-fast read that just keeps getting better and better as the story unfolds. I was hooked from the first page, and literally couldn’t stop reading until I finished the book. Unpredictable, suspenseful, and entirely satisfying. Five full stars on this one. Thank you to @NetGalley for the digital ARC.

All I can say after reading this is 'wow'.

I have no clue what I was expecting with this, but it definitely was not what I just read. I enjoyed this read even though it was a bit confusing until around the middle.

Wren and her family (2 sisters and her mother) have been living in the middle of no where away from civilization. They do not know electricity or power or even the government. After her mother takes her sister in the city to be treated since she was so sick, she tells Wren to watch over her sister and make sure that they are good. Well 2 months later, her mother still has not shown up.

Separately, there is another story line going on- Nicolette and her husband. Nicolette has been suffering from depression and she believes that her husband is cheating on her. She is CLEARLY not ok at all.

I will not go into detail, but once you get past the head scratches and get to the middle of the book, I enjoyed how all this played out!

Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, are raised by their mother in complete off-the-grid isolation. One day, Evie is really sick so the mother take her away to find help. Months pass and Wren and her sister Sage are all alone with little to no food left. Then one evening, a man comes looking for the girls’ mother and plans to take the girls with him. Wren and Sage must break the rules to escape.

Nicolette wants to be a foster mother because her and her husband can’t have children. She starts noticing that her husband is acting strange and believes he is hiding something.

An interesting read that will have you caring for the characters, which I find unusual in a lot of mystery/thrillers lately. Also the ending was a shock!

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for allowing me to read an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.