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In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

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beeayy's review

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

ches's review

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3.0

2.5 but rounded up. Enjoyed One by One far more (rated that a 4/5) and would definitely recommend that one over this.

This one was intriguing at first and atmospheric - it had a good start that hooked me in … but then just kept going downhill.

I didn’t like the last third at all, felt totally pulled out of the story and the person whodunnit was way WAY too obvious.

Figured out all the little reveals way before they happened (not a brag I normally suck at figuring this stuff out it was just obvious). Characters not very believable - they should have been written as 15/16 year olds the way they were acting, I just can’t believe grown ass women would ever act and care about the things they do.

However to it’s credit it did have nice pacing and bits of it were well done. I think this was her first book and possibly her weakest

art3mis9's review

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5.0

Great read. I would rate 90% if this book at 5 stars, though ending crumpled a little bit for me.

darianro's review

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1.0

This book was so slow and so boring in the beginning i literally put it down and didn’t read it for months. I only finished it purely because i wanted to just be done with it. the ending was very predictable and just overall bad.

nickig0406's review

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4.0

4.5

mimikins34's review against another edition

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4.0

Everything was a bit overdramatized, but I think that probably helped with the energy of the suspense overall. I guessed a lot of the answers early, but had fun getting to the end.