Let’s start with the witch in the woods. Only children could find her, the witch. Led by foxes faintly glowing in the darkness between sleeping and waking, together they traveled through dreamland until they came to an archway, like an eye half open, big enough only to crawl through. (…)

The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees

*spoiler free review*

Today! Todays this sweet little audiobook is coming out (28th of March 2023). It is a young adult fantasy novel. I got the to chance to listen to it as an ARC and I did enjoy it. In „The Waking Forest“ by Alyssa Wees we are following the story of a witch in the forest and also the story of a girl, Rhea, wo is living with her parents and her three sisters in a beautiful house. One day their paths will collide and that will possibly change everything about both of their lives…

The audiobook was spoken by Katelyn Levering. Her voice is nice and clear, which is actually a big consideration for me as I am listening to audiobooks mostly while cleaning or doing other choires around the house. And everyone who does the same knows, that you can’t hear someone who mumbles or has a deeper voice while you try to hoover or are scrubbing the bathtub😉The audiobook also had a nice length (8h 22m) and I could listen to it with 1,5x speed.

The plot was a nice story with a twist, which i saw coming from the first quarter of the book on, but it was still an engaging story. The end felt a little bit rushed to me and the pacing was a bit off (really slow pace in the beginning, LOTS of big stuff happening at the end), so that part was not my favourite. But I did like the characters and as well don’t mind for my cleaning stories, when they are not top tier plotwise, as long as they keep me entertained somehow. This audiobook did just that!

I think in the future I will be even more diving into audiobooks. I have a lot of reading goals and I just realised how much an audiobook can help me with that. i am still more drawn to having a physical book in my hand, smelling it, feeling it. But hey, every once in a while it just makes sense to use your time wisely. And how better to do that, than use boring tasks such as cleaning and couple it with something fun you mean to do anyways 🙂 If you don’t want to miss me diving more into audiobooks, you can subscribe down below to get notified when I have new articles up.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3 stars from me for a nice little story

Trigger warnings: Physical violence