The chapters go back and forth between the party and afterward, when Nora is in the hospital trying to remember how she ended up there. What I enjoyed is that you think it’s fairly obvious who did it, but at the same time Nora’s recollection of events puts doubt into the reader’s mind, and even then, the reader has to figure out the motive. We don’t know how or why until much later in the book, and the identity isn’t revealed until the middle. On the second night of the party, someone is murdered. With the house covered in windows, Nora can’t help but feel like they are being watched. The bachelorette activities include going to a shooting range and playing with an Ouija board. Then the only landline dies, leaving the guests with no cell service and no other way to call people. When Nora goes out for a run in the early morning, she sees footprints leading to the kitchen to the garage, but everyone in the house insists it wasn’t them.

Weird things start happening at the house. Nora constantly asks herself why she came to this party, what she was doing, what she is trying to prove and to whom- herself or Clare?

There may not be a need for curtains, considering there aren’t any other houses for miles around, and the only thing you can see out the windows are the woods surrounding the property.Īlong with Nora, Clare and Flo, other party members include Nina, a sarcastic doctor, Tom, a playwright, and Melanie, a new mother. The house is known as “the glass house,” as there are windows all around but no curtains to shut the world out. Flo is determined to throw Clare the perfect party, despite only six people showing up for the weekend. This party is being held remote Northcumblerland, a house that is owned by the aunt of the maid of honor, Flo. She gets invited to a bachelorette party (also known as a Hen) of an old friend who she hasn’t spoken to in ten years, Clare. “In a Dark Dark Wood” by Ruth Ware, follows Nora (or Lee or Leo, depending on who’s asking). While the beginning of “In a Dark Dark Wood” is rather slow, setting up characters, locations and motives, the creepiest parts are in the middle when some footprints are discovered. When I finally put the book down, I had to sleep with the bathroom light on. WARNING: Do not read this book at night because I couldn’t put it down and when a roommate came into my room I jumped a foot in the air.

Ruth ware in a dark dark wood review