So In a Dark, Dark Wood made me feel as if I was chasing something or maybe running through the dark forest at night, only I couldn’t tell if I was running after or from something. It reminded me a little bit of my also recent favorite thriller In My Dreams I Hold a Knife which is an emotional wreck, to be honest. I mean, it does have all the necessary requirements for one, but the stepping stone of the story is psychological drama. The thing about In a Dark, Dark Wood is that it’s not really a thriller. The whole story builds and builds until it bursts in a sequence of revelations. They are ominous as if escalating the closing of something fatal. “It was growing dark, and somehow the shadows made it feel as if all the trees had taken a collective step towards the house, edging in to shut out the sky.”Ĭan I just start from saying that I am in love with this title and cover. Is this a chance for Nora to finally put her past behind her?Īnd in the dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen do arrives. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back. Librarian’s note: This is an updated cover image for Kindle. Watson’s riveting national sensation Before I Go To Sleep, this gripping literary debut from UK novelist Ruth Ware will leave you on the edge of your seat through the very last page. ( From the publisher.Published August 4th 2015 by Gallery/Scout Press Annotation: In the tradition of Paula Hawkins's instant New York Times bestseller The Girl On the Train and S. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora ( Lee) must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past. Wondering not "what happened?" but "what have I done?" Nora ( Lee) tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. When a friend she hasn’t seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora ( Lee ?) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip.įorty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead.
Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.
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