What Waits in the Woods by Kieran Scott → Start Date: October 31st, 2015

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Please join Vicki, Gisbelle, Matty, Emma, Nicole, Becky and me for this Halloween Buddy read!!

[Vicki]

OMG! This looks TOO fun of a group! I am TOTALLY EXCITED to read this one with all of you!!

Thanks for making the thread for us, Trisha. :o)

[Farren]

Ooh I wanna join you guys =D

[Nicole - Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die-]

yes Vicki! it looks like a fun group and I can't wait and thank you for making the thread Trisha

[Gisbelle]

I'm glad a lot of people join us this year :) it's gonna be a spooktacular Halloween!

[Christina]

I will join

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

WOOHOO!! Welcome Farren and Christina!

I can't wait to read this with everyone!

[Vicki]

I agree! It's going to be a fun read and lots of discussion, I hope!

Welcome, Farren and Christina!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I'm so excited to start this one today!
I'll start after the Halloween Parade and contest here in my neighborhood and once the trick or treaters start arriving :)
around 6:30 or so, EST.

Is everyone ready to go?? :)

[Vicki]

Yes m'am!!! Here's hoping it's frightening!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN everyone!!!

[Farren]

I've read the first few chapters and so far so good. This main character is a wimp though! lol

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

starting now! A wimp huh? that's not good! LOL

[Maddie]

Hope everyone likes it! I read it a while ago and it was pretty creepy and really shocking.

[Gisbelle]

I'm reading chapter 1 :)

[Vicki]

I'm getting ready to start it too. I'm hoping I don't have TOO many trick-or-treaters! LOL

[Maddie]

They annoyed me yesterday :p I was in a mood for some reason, and I was getting annoyed at little things, but eh. They were only prevalent for about half an hour.

[Vicki]

We have a haunted house across the street, so sometimes that attracts them to the area in general and other times they tend to only go there. LOL I never know.

[Gisbelle]

Vicki wrote: "We have a haunted house across the street, so sometimes that attracts them to the area in general and other times they tend to only go there. LOL I never know."

I LOVE haunted house. I was a ghost once in a haunted house for a charity event back in high school.

[Vicki]

Gis, I see you more as the wicked witch!! LOL Hahaha! Just kidding!

[Gisbelle]

Lol how you know? I dressed as a witch this Halloween :P

[Vicki]

Cuz I know you! Lol I wish I could see you on your broom! Lol

[Gisbelle]

Yeah... Complete with warts and everything lol

[Vicki]

Awe, I bet you give the kids a thrill and give a wicked witch laugh.

I'm blah...just regular clothes. Lol

Trisha's daughter was dragging her dad on a chain!! Lol He's such a good sport!

[Gisbelle]

Finished chapter 5

Callie (view spoiler)[I can't blame her for being a little jumpy. Being in the wilderness at night give me fright too (hide spoiler)]

Lissa (view spoiler)[ sounds like a mean girl. I don't like the way she talked about Callie behind her back. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

lol! She did! My youngest and my husband :)

[Gisbelle]

Lol so awesome!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Gisbelle wrote: "Lol so awesome!"

aww thanks! they had fun! I guess while they were trick or treating, my husband kept pretending to lunge at my daughter and she had to keep pulling out weapons and smacking him back. they must have been quite the sight out there going door to door :) I stayed home and handed out candy

5 chapters as well

Callie(view spoiler)[ I agree. I don't think it's off to be jumpy
but I've camped a lot, so I wouldn't be that jumpy but finding that wadded up Bloody bandage. THAT would freak me out. AND The true crime story. I wouldn't be a fan of that either (hide spoiler)]

Lissa(view spoiler)[ I don't like her at all (hide spoiler)]

Jeremy(view spoiler)[ UGH! what was he trying to tell her. I wish she'd let him talk
I think it would have been important (hide spoiler)]

[Gisbelle]

That' sweet :) I'm sure they both had a great time together.

[Gisbelle]

Yes (view spoiler)[ i would have left ASAP lol I'm totally not up for that.

Lissa is bugging me too

There is something fishy about Jeremy (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Also finished ch. 5 and my goodness, does this bring back memories. LOL

I also have camped a lot, BUT once we had a bear wake us all up that was right in our camping are I was freaking out ALL NIGHT long!!!! EVERY little sound I'd wake my husband and whisper as low as possible and ask if it sounded like a bear. LOL So although (view spoiler)[Callie is freaked over the Skinner story and just in general, I totally get that feeling of not being able to sleep! (hide spoiler)]

Gis, I hope you're wrong about (view spoiler)[Jeremy. When they were out by the stars, he totally negated her fear of seeing someone though. I really hope he isn't a bad guy. (hide spoiler)]

Lissa (view spoiler)[is definitely not a nice girl and talking like that about Callie was rude too. It was a private call but still. (hide spoiler)]

Do you girls think that Callie (view spoiler)[really has seen someone like a man trying to look smaller, or do you think her imagination has gotten away with her? (hide spoiler)]

Do you see the (view spoiler)[journal entries as her stories she's writing or something else? (hide spoiler)] Either way it adds to the spook factor. I'm quite enjoying this so far!

[Gisbelle]

I hope so too :) (view spoiler)[ but usually it's the boyfriend lol (hide spoiler)]

Finished chapter 7 (view spoiler)[ What’s the worst that could happen? ... Famous last words lol

I think it is not a good idea for them to try a new trail. Something bad is going to happen. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

haha!! YES! I totally agree Gisbelle

ch 5 still (view spoiler)[ Jeremy is fishy....he really is. drawing her away and then trying to tell her something... (hide spoiler)]

Journal entries(view spoiler)[ the first one sounded like Callie but it could have been someone else

but the last one, just before chapter 6...THAT one didn't sound like Callie. it sounded like someone watching them (hide spoiler)]

[Gisbelle]

Journal entries (view spoiler)[ yes I think the first one was Callie, but exactly, it could be any one of them. The other one slight be Skinner O.O or some psycho stalker. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Gisbelle wrote: "I hope so too :) [spoilers removed]

Finished chapter 7 .."

thru ch 7
(view spoiler)[ this is feeling like a big set up
from the phone call to verify Zack shouldn't be out there to the bloody gauze and the doll and the stories

I can't help but think the 3 or 4 of them (including zach) just might be out to scare Callie on this trip
I hope I'm wrong but....maybe Penelope isn't in on it either
but it sure feels like Lissa and Jeremy are in cahoots (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Vicki wrote: "Do you girls think that Callie (view spoiler)..."

I think (view spoiler)[ that yes, she's seeing someone
but I think they might be tricking her. I think it might be Zach (hide spoiler)]

[Gisbelle]

(view spoiler)[ that makes sense. Maybe Zac is the one lurking in the dark (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Okay, I also totally began to feel like it was a (view spoiler)[setup when they pulled that bloody material and then the doll? Jeremy laughed at that too and didn't seem very empathetic to her fears at all. (hide spoiler)]

Finished Ch. 8

I think your theory (view spoiler)[about Zach could be right! I mean why is Lissa talking about him SO much? So Callie would "be sure" he wasn't there? Hmmm...I wonder. (hide spoiler)]

I don't want this to follow the (view spoiler)[it's usually the boyfriend plot. LOL I DO hope that there is no real Skinner! Not a very funny "game" to me. I'd be SO ticked if someone did that to me and scared me half to death! (hide spoiler)]

[Gisbelle]

Finished chapter 10

Jeremy (view spoiler)[It felt like he fell into the water into the water intentionally. (hide spoiler)]

Lissa (view spoiler)[ I can't stand her! She treats everyone like crap (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

I am on my way to get something for my husband and I to eat. So I will have to catch up.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

15 chapters

Jeremy(view spoiler)[ well....I don't think he's just dated Penelope
AND now we know that he and (was it Lissa or Penelope?) have WEEKLY dinners and their families are tight (hide spoiler)]

BUT(view spoiler)[ Ted really throws a wrench in things. No way they invited this guy into the scheme.
ADD to that his flashing lights and signaling other people across the water....I have to wonder what is really going on here. I'm really honestly worried for them! YIKES! I would be terrified. I honestly don't know what I'd do if I were Callie. This is honestly Worst case scenario, right here (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

26 chapters

okay(view spoiler)[ the journal entries definitely sound like they are supposed to be written by Ted
but maybe they are actually CALLIE's journal? a part of her story? they are planted? I wonder if she's the one who is going to kill everyone....lol it would be an interesting twist but probably wrong :) (hide spoiler)]

Penelope(view spoiler)[ we are definitely seeing more anger from her and her obedience to Lissa is slipping out here..... (hide spoiler)]

Ted(view spoiler)[ feels slimy. it's weird how they are all so enthralled with him
and that Lissa and Penelope are just short of fighting over him (hide spoiler)]

visitor(view spoiler)[ the visitor she heard around the tent? could that still be Zach? I'm hoping he's keeping an eye on them... (hide spoiler)]

[Gisbelle]

That's very fast, Trisha. I'm still in chapter 14.

[Vicki]

I just got back & finished eating so I'm just getting to ch. 9.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

chapter 32

(view spoiler)[ Yeah, her panic about the journal and the fact that Callie is the one writing every night....hmmmm....she worries me a little (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

41 chapters

gah (view spoiler)[ they sure are taking Lissa's death in stride. Pen passed out and Zach's crying but everyone else seems to be holding up well. I would be FLIPPING OUT! (hide spoiler)]

and of course(view spoiler)[ we knew Zach was out there. SO he's been the one messing with them
but then who was Ted signaling at the beginning?? (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Finished Ch. 11 (I had to finish my pick me a winner book!)

I thought that (view spoiler)[Jeremy seemed genuinely afraid when he fell in the water, but definitely something is going on. (hide spoiler)]

And, yes, Lissa (view spoiler)[is awful! I mean, why would she want to tell about Penelope and Jeremy having kissed before. She is trouble with a capital T! (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Finished Ch. 15 last night and fell asleep. LOL

This is freaky to me because it's SO easy to imagine it really happening. It's not too far fetched.

I agree Trisha! (view spoiler)[They are in deep trouble! I don't know who this Ted guy is, but he doesn't seem to be a rescuer! He appears to possibly have another friend or friends in cahoots with him. (hide spoiler)]

Why do you think Lissa (view spoiler)[told Cassie about Pen and Jeremy dating 3 months and told her if she still likes him she should talk to him? Is she softening or is she possibly trying to get on her good side? (hide spoiler)]

Recovery Journal Entry 3 (view spoiler)[sounds like TED wrote it because the writer refers to every person there except TED. (hide spoiler)] I know you're beyond this chapter now Trisha so you might not be able to answer this with a prediction as you might already know the answer. But if you remember what you thought at that time, I'd love to know. And, of course, I love your opinion, Gis!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

ugh, sorry, I finished last night but then chatted with my husband and went to bed and didn't update.

I think(view spoiler)[ it was near impossible to know it was Penelope because we didn't know about her and Jeremy until later
but once Lissa showed up dead, I knew it was either Callie or Penelope - because they were the only two who knew Lissa said she wouldn't do exactly what she did

I didn't think it was Penelope though..I thought Callie :) (hide spoiler)]

I'm glad(view spoiler)[ that Jeremy made it and that they are getting back together to face the ugly first day of school together (hide spoiler)]

this one was pretty good

[Gisbelle]

I finished, but just have to get online.

Yes (view spoiler)[I didn't suspect Pen either. I thought it was either Jeremy, because they didn't seem to get along, or Callie. (hide spoiler)]

The ending (view spoiler)[was pretty good. I liked the part that Jeremy shouted out for Callie to show herself. I thought I made the right guess then. (hide spoiler)]

Yes it was a lot better than our last Halloween reads.

[Farren]

Aw cute picture Trisha! I had the worst Halloween weekend ever so I got behind on my books but I'm starting to catch up. I'm through chapter 22 and recovery journal 5 which is exactly halfway. I didn't realize how short this book is!
(view spoiler)[ I was also wondering if there was something going on, since Lissa treats Jeremy like crap but then they run off to speak in private all the time. Now that Ted is added to the mix I don't know what to think. (hide spoiler)]
I am going to try to read this without making predictions but I can never pull that off.