Phillip Santiago reviewed In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Review of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Called it by page 200 of 308. But that's not necessarily because I'm super-clever. Ware does this thing where she telegraphs that a character is a bad person to the reader, but the protagonist is frustratingly too stuck in her own insecurities to realize it. There's a compelling sequence of events and even the framing device adds some intrigue to the first third of the book, but Ware leans on the levers too often and what started out as suspense ends up as melodrama.
Called it by page 200 of 308. But that's not necessarily because I'm super-clever. Ware does this thing where she telegraphs that a character is a bad person to the reader, but the protagonist is frustratingly too stuck in her own insecurities to realize it. There's a compelling sequence of events and even the framing device adds some intrigue to the first third of the book, but Ware leans on the levers too often and what started out as suspense ends up as melodrama.
