6/30/2023 0 Comments Review of in a dark dark wood![]() ![]() Like in The Turn Of The Key, the story flash-forwards to Leonora in the hospital after the bachelorette weekend. Naturally, they get snowed in right away and lose the landlines. Along with their old friend Nina, Clare’s creepily fawning new bestie, Flo, and some of Clare’s new friends, Leonora spends the weekend in a rural cabin. Leonora hasn’t seen Clare since high school and didn’t even know she was engaged, but when she’s invited to Clare’s bachelorette weekend, she feels obligated to show up. Like in The Hunting Party, several old school friends, who might not even like each other anymore, reunite for a weekend in an isolated cabin. But speed-read through the heavy-handed references to My Unspeakably Terrible Secret to get to the suspenseful, creepy page-turner inside. ![]() ![]() I need to know a little bit more about a character to make me invested in her secrets. In A Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware, has a bit of a slow start, with too many references to Leonora’s Big Unmentionable Secret before the plot gets going or we learn much else about Leonora. ![]()
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