BOOK REVIEW: ONE BY ONE BY RUTH WARE

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Title: One by One
Author: Ruth Ware
Published: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 384
Rating: 2/5

Summary:

A group of colleagues come together to discuss the future of their company and end up trapped in a mountain chalet in the French Alps after an avalanche and this has deadly consequences.

Review:

I had pretty high hopes for this book, so I'm a little disappointed to say that this wasn't really all that great.

I don't always love mysteries where a big part of the story is business or corporate get togethers, and so I found myself not really all that interested in that part of this story. We read from the perspective of two characters in here and I quite liked the dual perspective, but I found especially one of them felt a little underdeveloped and honestly just annoying most of the time. In general, I didn't find any of the characters particularly fascinating.

I think the strongest part of this book is the setting and I loved reading about the mountains and this retreat, but even this I think had unexplored potential as the atmosphere wasn't as good as I think it could've been.

I do think it's fun with these kinds of locked-in mysteries where there are only a certain amount of characters present and a murderer is among them, but I just didn't find this particular one intriguing. I found the whole thing to be kind of obvious, which doesn't make for very exciting reading. 

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