Girl in the Creek

Put Mira Grant’s science in T. Kingfisher’s fantasy folk horror, and you’ll get something that approximates Wendy Wagner’s Girl in the Creek, which follows Erin who finagles a work trip to a forest in the Pacific Northwest so she can look for her missing brother.

We know right away this is not a normal forest - or a normal book, as it begins from the perspective of a sentient, but obviously not human, life form, and the closer Erin gets to finding out what happened to her brother, the closer we are to understanding what we were introduced to in the first pages (or minutes, in my case, listening to the audiobook version).

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review. Pub. date: 7/15/25

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