Youll Thank Me for This, Nina Siegal
Youll Thank Me for This, Nina Siegal
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You'll Thank Me for This
A Novel

Author: Nina Siegal

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 6 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/23/2021


Synopsis

This pulse-pounding psychological thriller takes roots from the Dutch tradition of blindfolding and dropping your adolescent child in the middle of the wilderness—and shows what happens when it goes horribly wrong.
 
Twelve-year old Karin is blindfolded and dropped into the Hoge Veluwe National Forest with three other children. With nothing but a few basic supplies and emergency food, the children are tasked with working together to navigate one of the Netherlands' most beautiful and wild locations and return home to where their families are anxiously waiting.
 
The youngest of the group and distracted by her own thoughts, Karin lags behind, suddenly looking up to see that the other children have vanished.
 
As Karin struggles against the elements to find her way back, she soon realizes that something far more sinister lurks in the woods.
 
Meanwhile, the parents are reeling from the knowledge that none of the children have returned. The authorities are alerted, and the news media descends, turning the disappearances into a public frenzy. Amidst the chaos and hysteria, Karin's mother, Grace, is facing threats of her own, making her doubt who she can trust. Will she be able to untangle this web of false leads and fake news to find her daughter—before it's too late?

About Nina Siegal

Nina Siegal received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Fulbright Scholar. She has written for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in Amsterdam.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews on April 16, 2022

Despite the subject matter - abduction and physical abuse - the tone of this novel came across as middle schoolish. This was not my cup of tea and I found myself skimming a fair amount of this one.......more

Goodreads review by Heather on October 31, 2021

An adrenaline rush of a novel, I tore through YOU’LL THANK ME FOR THIS by Nina Siegal in one nail-biting sitting. Based on the Dutch coming of age tradition of “dropping” preteens into the wilderness, smart, gutsy, twelve-year-old Karin steps into the forest armed with only a compass and her wits to......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly on October 27, 2020

Any story set in the Netherlands is an automatic read for me, so when I heard Nina Siegal’s You’ll Thank Me for This was based on the Dutch tradition of dropping kids in the forest to find their own way home—yes, it’s real, and yes, it still happens—I pushed it to the tippy top of my pile. What begi......more

Goodreads review by Jordan (Jordy’s Book Club) on April 25, 2021

QUICK TAKE: is YOU'LL THANK ME a perfect book...no. But it is a solid, fast-paced thriller about a girl on an overnight camping trip who gets lost in the woods and must survive all sorts of dark and scary things (wolves, government conspiracies, meth heads, 7th grade a-holes). I liked the alternatin......more

Goodreads review by Octavia on March 02, 2021

The premise of this book is based on the real-life tradition of "dropping" where the Dutch apparently abandon teens in the woods and leave them to find their own way to a campsite. That sounded interesting, so I requested it. However, this book was not 'pulse pounding' and just felt unrealistic to me.......more


Quotes

“When I heard Nina Siegal’s You’ll Thank Me for This was based on the Dutch tradition of dropping kids in the forest to find their own way home—yes, it’s real, and yes, it still happens—I pushed it to the tippy top of my pile. What begins with every parent’s worst nightmare quickly evolves into a twisty, stay-up-too-late stunner, a tense and atmospheric tale that will make you take another look at the people you think you know.” —Kimberly Belle, author of Dear Wife and Stranger in the Lake

“An adrenaline rush of a novel. I tore through You’ll Thank Me For This by Nina Siegal in one nail-biting sitting. . . . Gripping and fast-paced, this is a novel not to be missed.”—Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence and This is How I Lied