A review by greatdistractions
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

2.0

I didn't really like this book, and felt pretty mislead by the reviews they picked to put on the cover. It was sold as a horror, but it wasn't. Nothing scary happened in it. It was a mystery, definitely, but it didn't make me feel afraid at any point in time. Also, a grown woman who's still comparing everyone she dates with a man she was with when she was 16 was kind of uncomfortable. Yes, we're all effected by our pasts. Yes, to a certain extent, we don't get over our first loves the way we get over others. But the extent to which she was obsessed seemed to go against the fact that later she seemed to say that the reason it hit her so hard was that she had been wrong about him. Yet, she mentions that she called for him in her sleep when in bed with another man. You don't do that if you're just upset that you were wrong about someone, or carrying a scar from a first love.