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In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

22 reviews

chris_reads's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Entertaining, if a bit predictable. The lead feels willfully ignorant. 2.75 ✰ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, Death, Gun violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion, Drug use, Outing, Suicide attempt, and Adult/minor relationship

belladonnashrike's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

okay this book was so damn good. I don’t know why it took me so long to pick it back up again, but i read a majority of it in one sitting - I couldn’t put it down!

reminded me a lot of of gillian flynn’s work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Car accident, Medical content, Pregnancy, Abortion, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Medical content, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Alcohol, Mental illness, Car accident, Drug use, Blood, and Death

Minor: Abortion, Gore, Grief, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Police questioning

ems_rxlibrary's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Drug use, Abortion, Alcohol, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Cursing

spooderman's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Ableism, Car accident, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Suicide, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Outing, and Vomit

Minor: Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

kstericker's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Pedophilia, Mental illness, Outing, and Abortion

kes_kat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

This felt like more of a mystery than a thriller. <Spoiler>the book starts off with our main character, Nora in the hospital trying to remember everything that happened in order, "starting at the beginning".<Spoiler> it wasn't very thrilling, in my opinion. 

The part that bothered me the most is that all the characters acted like they were still in highschool. They all felt very immature for people who were supposed to be in their mid-to-late 20s. 

The plot twists and drama didn't do it for me. There was one part that had that classic thriller feel to it, but the rest felt dull to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Drug use and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This book is about a bachelorette party gone wrong: murder, mayhem, and spooky shit ensues. I have quite a few complaints about this one but as per usual, I want to start with positives because I like to be generous and also because I did like this book, there were just things I wanted from it that I didn't get. I thought the writing was lovely. Ruth Ware is very obviously great at building suspense, setting the scene for horror, and writing tense scenes between characters. Some of my favorite scenes were scenes where characters were fighting or bitching about one another. I lived for the drama of it all.

My main complaint is this: Reese Witherspoon says on the cover blurb that I'm going to be "really scared." I was not. This book undoubtedly had its moments where I was very invested in figuring out what happened, but there were such long stretches of pages where I felt that things were getting repetitive and if something didn't happen soon, this was going to go into the DNF graveyard. However, a lot of times, the moment I had that thought, something would happen; it just was never scary enough to make me feel anything. I also felt like after a certain point, it was really easy for me to put 2 and 2 together and figure out what the big twist was, which made the whole climax kind of a slog for me.

All in all, I do give this 3 stars because I think it was beautifully written, but perhaps not a favorite story for me specifically.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Car accident, and Gun violence

Moderate: Abortion, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

library_of_alexandra_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic friendship, Murder, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

ellensmith's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This book was impossible to put down and I hungrily devoured it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit