A review by thayerbowen
Zero Days by Ruth Ware

3.75

I wrote these notes while reading. I’d read “the women in cabin 10” and felt that the narrator was forever going off half cocked, endangering herself unnecessarily. I didn’t realize that when I started the book. 

This book is a lot tighter and better written than “the woman” was, and it got better as it went on. I think the stuff at the beginning was to put the character in the position needed floor the plot to unfold. I’d read more by Ruth Ware focusing on her later books. 

It was around the part in the book where I made my OTOH comment that I felt it was getting  good. 

Only in England is white-blonde hair more innocuous than brown. 

Why leave the police station when she’s not under arrest and your lawyer is one the way?

Going home is the Most Obvious place she’d go. 

It’s ok to be weird in a hostel. That’s kind of where weird people go. 

No way at a hostel would someone pay and not take the cash. People are too close to being out of money. OTOH, saying she was overdrawn was a smart way to avoid using a cards to pay. 

Hogging the bathroom during the day is going to make sure people remember the chick with red hair who is now white blonde. 

So she breaks in to the life insurance company to clear her name but it could also look like she’s planting information