One By One by Ruth Ware
Why oh why do I keep reading Ruth Ware? Because I hold on to the apparently futile hope that her novels will get better? The first Ruth Ware novel that I read was her first novel, In a Dark, Dark Wood, and I read it because Reese Witherspoon said to “Prepare to be scared… really scared!” I found it a little creepy, but not scary at all, and it was too predictable. The next Ruth Ware novel that I read was The Death of Mrs. Westaway. Again, it was predictable, but I really could not stand the protagonist, so I vowed to never waste my time on a Ruth Ware novel again. So why did I read One By One? Because my mom gave it to me and she said it was “good”, which is a glowing endorsement from my mother as she is the pickiest reader. One By One is a bit better than the other two novels that I have read, but it was still too easy predict the outcome.
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