The second reason being that even without reading the comparison novels, these feel like surface comparisons to me, focusing on the books’ general similarities in theme and tone rather than analyzing the more nuanced aspects of each on the level of character, dialogue, and plot development. Therefore, I can’t fully agree with comparisons to books I haven’t read because I have no basis with which to compare.
Although I enjoyed the novel, and the characters and plot were well thought out, I hesitate to fully support these claims for a few reasons the first on being that I’ve read Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places, but not Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train is currently in my TBR pile, and even though I certainly have plenty of options to choose from, I’ve yet to indulge in an Agatha Christie novel. Ruth Ware’s psychological thriller In a Dark, Dark Wood has been said to contain echoes of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train, and even house a few similarities to Agatha Christie novels. In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house Īnd in the dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room Īnd in the dark, dark room there was a dark, dark cupboard Īnd in the dark, dark cupboard there was…a skeleton! As the novel unfolds, the reader is left trying to figure out what happened ten years ago between Nora and Clare, how she ended up battered and bruised in the hospital, and what the hell happened in the glass house?
(Def doesn’t seem like the setting for a horrible murder or anything!!1! Everything is fine and normal!!) The novel opens with Nora running for her life, and trying to piece together the events of a gruesome night. Despite her initial hesitation, Clare ends up guilt tripped into attending three day weekend in a creepy glass house, located in a secluded forest hours away from her home in London. The weird part is that Leonora, who now goes by Nora, hasn’t spoken to or seen Clare in ten years. Writer Leonora Shaw is unexpectedly invited to her high school best friend’s hen night (the UK’s version of a bachelorette party).
Synopsis that won’t give away the ending:
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