The It Girl by Ruth Ware

 About the book: 

Pub date: July 12th

April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.

Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead.

Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder.

MY THOUGHTS 

OMGGG!! I Loved it!! ❤️ Isn’t it the absolute best feeling when one of your MOST anticipated reads of the year delivers?!! 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you @scoutpressbooks for this gorgeous gifted copy!! 5 dark academia stars!! 🙌

We all know that girl…👱‍♀️… the one that everyone wants to be… hangout with… date… well this “It Girl” is April. She’s magnetic, gorgeous and very very rich. 💳💰Oh and very very dead. 🤫🤭🤭

I swear @ruthwarewriter is the queen 👸 of atmospheric reads!! She froze me out 🥶 in One by One… freaked me out 👻 in The Turn of the Key🔑 … but I hands down loved this dark… creepy… Oxford school setting. I cringed when April and Hannah would party into the night. 🥃🍸🥂🍷🍺 why you ask??? Well we have alternating timelines.. before… and after… 🤔🤔🤔 Before April was murdered and after… so I was waiting for the Jimmy Choo shoe 👠 to drop… We know it is coming.. but when??? Good thing that killer is behind bars… or is he?😳🤷‍♀️

I can’t tell you how much I loved this book. @ruthwarewriter is always a sure thing for me! ❤️I loved the alternating timelines that kept me guessing all the end! ❤️

Dark academia ✅ Murder ✅ Book hangover ✅ ☕️☕️☕️ Better have your coffee ready for the next day!! 😉😘 Pub date is July 12th!! 🥳🥳🥳

❤️❤️❤️ Is this book on your list?? What is your favorite @ruthwarewriter book?? What is your favorite setting for a good atmospheric read? I love snowed in ski 🎿 lodges ( cue One by One ) 😂 I also love boarding schools..and apparently colleges. ❤️

Ruth Ware grew up in Sussex, on the south coast of England. After graduating from Manchester University she moved to Paris, before settling in North London. She has worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a teacher of English as a foreign language and a press officer. She is married with two small children, and In a Dark, Dark Wood is her début thriller.

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