The first Ruth Ware book I read ('In a Dark, Dark Wood') was PHENOMENAL. It's good, but the end?.could have been better I’ll just skip the rest of this author’s works altogether. By the last third of the book, I was skipping through 30 seconds of exposition for every two minutes of narrative with no loss of pertinent information. The author leaves no room for a reader to interpret anything, each morsel of information is so thoroughly digested by the narrator that the whole book ends up as, well. What could be the ramifications of the decision she just made? Just wait a few seconds and you’ll hear about every conceivable possibility. Did you catch the significance of the odd look that man gave her? No? Well don’t worry, you’ll be hearing about it at great length soon. Not a glimmer of information is spared from the microscopic gaze of our extraordinarily thorough heroine. The story drags with torturously prolonged justifications for the protagonist’s logic and choices. As it is, I can only guess that the author assumes her audience to be a bunch of idiots, and that her publishing house is inclined to agree. Cut out half of the narrator’s extensive analysis, and, though it still wouldn’t be great, it would be good enough for a light read. Good gravy what a slog! My kingdom for an editor! With a few hundred slashes of an editor’s red pen, it could have been a decent enough mystery.
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