Clare seemed like she had changed from her school days when she was manipulative and selfish. I never knew if I should trust Flo or not. I felt like Flo had some mental problems going on and needed help with them ASAP. It was as if she was in love with Clare! She was obsessed with Clare and very high strung. I know that was just meant to be her personality, but I just had a hard time figuring her out. Sometimes I liked her but other times she came across as too mean. I had a love/hate relationship with Nina. Also, what I mentioned in the previous paragraph about her not speaking to her ex even though there was something major that happened in their relationship. However, sometimes I couldn't understand her reasoning behind some things such as wanting to go to someone's hen do that she hasn't seen or spoken to in ten years! Perhaps other people would go out of curiosity, but I would have just noped out of that.

I admired her desire to find out the truth even if it meant getting herself in trouble. All I can say is with what goes wrong for her makes me glad that I've never been in her position.

I felt the characters were well written and had enough depth to the them to feel realistic. Like I said, I guess it is possible to go without speaking to each other after that, but when something that major happens between a couple (I don't want to give the major thing away due to spoilers), I would have thought there would be more talking at some point. I have a hard time believing that not one of them would have reached out to the other in the whole ten years they had not seen each other especially right after their break up with what happened. One thing that did feel a bit improbable but not impossible was how Nora and her ex-boyfriend James ended things when they were teenagers. I also loved the fact that there were no cliff hangers, and all of my questions were answered by the end of the book. There are some plot twists, and a few of them are predictable, but I still loved In a Dark, Dark Wood. I felt like everyone was a suspect, and I was scrutinizing every little detail. I also had to understand why Nora would even be interested in going considering it had been so long. I was wondering why Nora would be invited to someone's hen do that she hasn't seen or spoken with in over 10 years. The plot really sucked me in right from the beginning.

In a dark dark wood by ruth ware