Cannonball Read 18

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“They pick volatile people, people who’re going to perform for the cameras, they wind them up as tight as they can, they engineer a bunch of high-stress situations that are practically guaranteed to make someone lose their shit, throw in some alcohol—and then they sit back and let the cameras roll and the tweets pour in.”

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

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If you’re looking for another summer read to lazily sink your reading teeth into, Ruth Ware is usually a pretty good choise, and this one is no different. With a beachy setting, lots of intrigue and vapid people it’s a recipe for grand escapism. For anyone who is a mindful consumer of reality TV (i.e. you know it’s fake but you love it anyway) this is a fun peak behind the fictional curtain of a British show set on a tropical island meant to showcase […]

“I jumped to a conclusion that was so wrong, it was almost completely right.”

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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The journey to me reading this book was a funny one. I accompanied my husband to a birthday party for a classmate, which was held at said classmate’s childhood friend’s apartment. At said party, I got to talking about books with the partner of the childhood friend, as you do when you don’t know anyone at a party but you see a good-looking bookshelf, and then they, a complete stranger, loaned me this book. Because let’s be real: book people are the BEST people. I’d […]

I was on a “And Then There Were None” kick with mixed results

One by One by Freida McFadden

One by One by Ruth Ware

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Ok I read the original Agatha Christie version of this story, “And then there were none” a while ago, and then I apparently went on a bender. I know I’ve read at least one or two other versions before this one too. Here is Freida’s version, because it was apparently a summer of Freida for me. I thoroughly enjoy the premise of these “and then there were none” stories, because it’s usually a group of seemingly innocent but secretly kinda crappy people who one by […]

“News always reached Miss Marple, one way or another.”

Marple: Twelve New Stories by Various

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I would read more of these Agatha Christie short story collections featuring notable authors, for sure. Even the ones where Americans tried and failed to capture that British Marple feeling were entertaining in their failure. But most of these stories were pretty successful! One nailed it completely. Highlights for me were the stories from Ruth Ware (I know!), Naomi Alderman, Elly Griffiths, Kate Mosse, and Leigh Bardugo. This may be the easy way out, but I’ve just copied and pasted my Goodreads status update mini-reviews […]

“You’ve done enough poking around, this is getting stupid. You’re not some kind of pregnant Miss Marple.”

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

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It was perfectly fine! But I still don’t get the Ruth Ware obsession that some people have. Our “It Girl” is April Coutts-Cliveden, who is murdered her freshman year at Oxford, and who had “that thing”. The main character and narrator is her roommate and “best friend”, Hannah, who has experienced ten years of PTSD and harassment from journalists and the public because she was the one who found April’s body, and it was her testimony that sealed the conviction of the murderer, John Neville, […]

The It Girl

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

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Well color me shocked. This may be the second Ware book that I have liked. The main reason why I gave this just four stars is I really didn’t enjoy the retconning of one character. I won’t get into it since it would be spoilers, but it just felt off based on what we read about what was going on between this person and Hannah while at school. The book does a great job of showing the “before” and “after” and even manages to do […]



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