There are no major twists or red herrings rather the paths are subtly engineered as possibilities. Ware leads the readers down several paths and keeps her cards close to her chest. We have all had those moments of wondering what a long-lost childhood friend is doing in this regard, Nora is living out those moments for all of us.Īs for the mystery, it has the added bonus of being a true mystery. This is what draws the reader’s interest until the final mystery is revealed. She does not even know why she decided to go. After all, as she says to herself on multiple occasions, it had been ten years since she had seen the bride-to-be. Then there is the reasons for Nora’s attendance of said party. From the very first paragraph, the tone strikes the reader as foreboding, indicating that something is not quite right about this weekend party. In fact, In a Dark Dark Wood is anything but boring. Only after relationships have been established and readers have a good insight into Nora’s mind does she move on to focus on the mystery. Ware first sets the stage and then develops her characters. The actual mystery remains an honest-to-goodness mystery for much of the novel, as Ms.
The setting is pitch perfect, and the characters are all just this side of crazy. Thoughts on the Novel: In a Dark Dark Wood is the best type of suspense novel. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora (Lee?) must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past.” Wondering not ‘what happened?’ but ‘what have I done?’, Nora (Lee?) tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. When a friend she hasn’t seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip.
Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her ‘nest’ of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. “What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.
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