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One by One
by Ruth Ware
This book grabs you from the first paragraph on the first page. Right away Ware’s gift for description is on display – it may still be summer when you read this, but her description of the chalet’s guests arriving will make you try to remember where you put that throw you used last winter to keep warm.
Ware’s world-building is on full display here from the frozen beauty of the French Alps to the luxury trappings of the chalet. Her characters are well drawn, and as the narrators begin to tell their stories and reveal their secrets the reader gets drawn deeper into the story until she realizes that it’s the wee hours of the morning and she’s been reading for a few hours. The reader may suspect she knows who the killer is, but not really.
Ware doesn’t rush her story. She takes her time building the tension until the reader is turning pages as quickly as she can. The ending, too, isn’t rushed nor is the aftermath of an avalanche.
All in all if you like your tension building slowly over a goodly part of the book, this is the book for you. If you like books that have you murmuring, “I did not see that coming,” put this book at the top of your to-be-read list.
My thanks to Gallery Press and Edelweiss for an eARC.
Ware’s world-building is on full display here from the frozen beauty of the French Alps to the luxury trappings of the chalet. Her characters are well drawn, and as the narrators begin to tell their stories and reveal their secrets the reader gets drawn deeper into the story until she realizes that it’s the wee hours of the morning and she’s been reading for a few hours. The reader may suspect she knows who the killer is, but not really.
Ware doesn’t rush her story. She takes her time building the tension until the reader is turning pages as quickly as she can. The ending, too, isn’t rushed nor is the aftermath of an avalanche.
All in all if you like your tension building slowly over a goodly part of the book, this is the book for you. If you like books that have you murmuring, “I did not see that coming,” put this book at the top of your to-be-read list.
My thanks to Gallery Press and Edelweiss for an eARC.