Book 5 (of 52) – The IT Girl

The IT Girl – Ruth Ware

When the man convicted of killing her college roommate dies in prison, a pregnant woman starts to question whether things happened as she thought they did years ago.  She starts reaching out to old friends and returns to her old stomping grounds in an effort to prove, one way or the other, what really happened that night.  The only question is can she do so while keeping herself and her family safe?

I was a little down on Ruth Ware’s latest, The It Girl, in the early going.  The big bad seemed patently obvious, and I had a hard time getting in to the story.  Eventually, though, I got through it and became engrossed as the story progressed.  The obvious big bad ended up being a red herring, but there was some shaky, out of character behavior that was never explained to point arrows in his direction.  If you’re going to make someone act like the bad guy to throw the reader a curveball, you should circle back and explain why he acted that way when he turns out not to be the bad guy.  Aside from that, this turned out to be another enjoyable work from Ware.