It’s a close call though I’m certain that the author could defend all her choices. Ultimately, I feel like they were that way so the plot would work, rather than being interesting, three dimensional characters. Clare was mean, but pretty and popular, and manipulated everyone around her into doing her bidding, while still seeming like a nice person. Although it doesn’t seem like she felt like it. The narrator is Nora, who was unpopular in first grade, but became friends with Clare. The characters are very close to being realistic, but are still interesting. I feel like maybe I’m critiquing the reviews at this point, but this felt more like the first book of a new series, than a stand-alone thriller, which I’m almost sure it is. But it’s a diverting, fun read and that’s about it. In a Dark, Dark Wood is shooting for a pretty good episode of Grantchester, rather than Gone Girl or Luckiest Girl Alive.Īnd me? I love a good drawing room mystery, so I enjoyed it.
These two things are fine and make sense when you get to them, but they are not huge reveals or twists. In a Dark, Dark Wood centers on the previously mentioned event from the past that is teased frequently in the first half of In a Dark, Dark Wood, and an event that opens the book that seems like it might be connected. I think this book might suffer from the current literary climate - Gone Girl, Luckiest Girl Alive, Girl on the Train - all of which include big reveals and surprising twists. See also: Most entertaining audiobooks with great narrators During high school, something terrible happened that made Nora into a introvert who looks, not for love, but that “thing,” which is just hinted at for most of the book. The reasons why they are there becomes the crux of the story. Something goes terribly wrong at the party– which we learn in the first few pages– and Clare and Nora both end up in the hospital. Nora doesn’t realize that Clare is marrying Nora’s high school sweetheart, until Nora gets to the party and things immediately become extremely awkward. They get together for Clare’s hen party (what the Brits call a bachelorette party). In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware is a mystery/ thriller that revolves around two friends, Nora and Clare, who haven’t seen or spoken to each other for ten years, since high school.
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