![]() What’s the worst that could happen, right? Then there’s Tom, the theater company snob with a fair bit of his own baggage and proclivity for cocaine and tequila. ![]() Flo is tragically unhinged, a woman who hides behind a rosy smile and gracious demeanor, yet cannot do anything but try to please Clare. ![]() Nina also brings some much-needed levity and hawk-like scrutiny to the whole cabin ordeal. I most enjoyed Nora and Nina’s friendly banter, the kind that is the hallmark of any close friendship. Small clues are placed throughout the narrative, including a blank shotgun shell, that encourage the reader to do a fair bit of detective work.Īs for the ensemble, I found just enough character development throughout the story. There is plenty of tension and suspense in every chapter. It can be tricky to incorporate amnesia into a story’s central conflict, but Ware does so with finesse. I most enjoyed how unreliable and confused Nora is as a narrator. Ware did an excellent job interweaving past and present. The story shifts between the past and present effortlessly, with Nora recovering in a hospital as she tries to piece together the horrific events that transpired within those woods. The back cover description did an excellent job of selling the mystery at the heart of Nora’s weekend getaway at Clare’s hen get-together. In a Dark, Dark Wood was the first novel of Ruth Ware’s that I read. Is Nora guarding a still-tender heartache? Or is someone determined to destroy her before the police can hone in on the truth? Photo by Eneida Nieves on Initial Impressions With her memory slowly coming back, Nora must fight to determine if she is the victim or the killer. Images of violence come back to our protagonist, who is bed-ridden in a hospital with amnesia. What is already an uncertain gathering devolves into chaos before Nora is knocked unconscious. The only problem is, Nora hasn’t seen Clare in ten years, even since Clare began to see Nora’s old boyfriend, James. That solitude is disrupted when Nora is invited by her old college buddy Clare Cavendish’s perky new friend, Flo, to Clare’s weekend bachelorette party at a secluded house in the woods. A somewhat introverted writer named Leonora - or Nora, as she prefers to be called - lives a quiet life. Written by British novelist Ruth Ware, In a Dark, Dark Wood is a tale of a weekend hen party gone horribly wrong.
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