3 Stars – An Okay Read

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I’ve been trying to think about how to write this review and share my thoughts for a little while and what it comes to is that it disappointed me with this story. It had its positives and all, but overall, it was a letdown. This was a very hyped-up book and I’m not sure why.
This story is about Hannah and Will, who are married and expecting their first baby. They have had to build a life and recover from 10 years earlier when Hannah found her friend/roommate murdered one night and this story is told from two different timelines. One timeline is from a decade ago when Hannah was living the events that lead up to finding April, her roommate, strangled, and the other is the present timeline. Hannah finds herself lead to uncover the answers to what really happened and who killed April 10 years ago and in the process finds out secrets being kept by others around her and puts herself, her baby, her husband, her marriage all in danger as she pushes to find and uncover the truth.
As I mentioned previously, this was an extremely hyped-up book and I felt that it didn’t live. up to that hype. The first half or so of this book was a bit long, slow moving and hard for me to get through to get to the good part and finish the story.
If you like Ruth Ware or can push through the slow parts then you’ll probably enjoy this one more than I did. This one, I think, was just not for me.
Thanks so much to NetGalley and Gallery Books/Gallery/Scout Press for letting me read and review this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.



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