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The It Girl

Ruth Ware

Start date: August 1, 2022

Finish date: August 31, 2022

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Jul 06, 2022 Carolyn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Hannah Jones is excited to be commencing University at Oxford. She worked hard at her government high school to get there and is looking forward to enjoying everything that Oxford has to offer. She discovers she is to share a set of rooms with wealthy, beautiful, vivacious April Coutts-Cliveden, the girl who has ‘it’ all. As well as a bedroom each they also have a joint living room/study which soon becomes a focal point for April’s private school friends to hang out. Quickly accepted by April’s Hannah Jones is excited to be commencing University at Oxford. She worked hard at her government high school to get there and is looking forward to enjoying everything that Oxford has to offer. She discovers she is to share a set of rooms with wealthy, beautiful, vivacious April Coutts-Cliveden, the girl who has ‘it’ all. As well as a bedroom each they also have a joint living room/study which soon becomes a focal point for April’s private school friends to hang out. Quickly accepted by April’s group of Will, Hugh, Ryan and Emily, Hannah is soon doing everything together with them. Hannah becomes April’s best friend even though they don’t seem to have much in common and April can be cruel, playing some horrible pranks on her friends. However, before the end of the second term, April will be dead and Hannah will have fled Oxford.

Written entirely with Hannah’s voice the novel tells of the events leading up to April’s death as well as Hannah’s life ten years later. She is married to Will and expecting a baby when she learns that the man who was convicted of April’s murder has died in prison. Hannah was one of the key witnesses at his trial but since then he has continued to proclaim his innocence and Hannah wonders if she could have got his involvement wrong.

I think this is type of novel written in a single voice could be hard to write but the author pulls it off fairly well. However, a lot of the narrative is Hannah’s thoughts and introspection which does make it a tad repetitive, but the author does well to keep us guessing and interested in working out what really happened to April. The descriptions Oxford with its old buildings and traditions are well done and help to build the atmosphere, especially during some creepy moments. The alternating timelines provide moments of tension in the book with the suspense building gradually to culminate towards the end when Hannah finally works out who killed April. A little different to Ruth Ware’s earlier books but a solid slow burner of a mystery with a clever little twist at the end. 3.5★

With thanks to Simon & Schuster via Netgalley for a copy to read ...more

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