Title: The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Author: Ruth Ware
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Pages: 384 (Paperback)
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
Publication date: May 29th, 2018
Synopsis from The Death of Mrs. Westaway's Goodreads page
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel.
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it.
Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.
Synopsis from The Death of Mrs. Westaway's Goodreads page
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel.
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it.
Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.
THOUGHTS
I really enjoyed this book! I am a huge fan of Ruth Ware, and I have now read all four of her books. I love how each one of her books is so different, but her writing is consistent and beautiful, and each book she writes just gets better and better!
I really enjoyed every aspect of this book. Her characters were well written, and each one was wonderful in their own way - they each had a lot of problems and a lot of issues, but that just made them more interesting as characters throughout the entire book.
I also really enjoyed the whole idea of the plot - to have the main character mixed up and believed to be this long lost member of their family, it was a great idea, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!
I also really enjoyed the suspense fullness of the book. Ruth Ware has, in my opinion, always been a master of suspense, and it keeps you up and forces you to read her books in one sitting. I've read almost all of her books in this way, in one single sitting, and every time they always amaze me with how they can be a good sized book, but still manage to be so suspenseful and such easy reads!
The only issue I had with the book was that I found a lot of stuff to be slightly repetitive, and I found that I was mixing up a few of the characters, so a bit more could've been added to make them seem slightly less similar. Other than that, however, I had zero qualms about this book.
Her writing continues to blow me away, and I look forward to her writing more and more books in the future!
I won this book in a giveaway from Simon and Schuster Canada - Thank you so much!
I really enjoyed this book! I am a huge fan of Ruth Ware, and I have now read all four of her books. I love how each one of her books is so different, but her writing is consistent and beautiful, and each book she writes just gets better and better!
I really enjoyed every aspect of this book. Her characters were well written, and each one was wonderful in their own way - they each had a lot of problems and a lot of issues, but that just made them more interesting as characters throughout the entire book.
I also really enjoyed the whole idea of the plot - to have the main character mixed up and believed to be this long lost member of their family, it was a great idea, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!
I also really enjoyed the suspense fullness of the book. Ruth Ware has, in my opinion, always been a master of suspense, and it keeps you up and forces you to read her books in one sitting. I've read almost all of her books in this way, in one single sitting, and every time they always amaze me with how they can be a good sized book, but still manage to be so suspenseful and such easy reads!
The only issue I had with the book was that I found a lot of stuff to be slightly repetitive, and I found that I was mixing up a few of the characters, so a bit more could've been added to make them seem slightly less similar. Other than that, however, I had zero qualms about this book.
Her writing continues to blow me away, and I look forward to her writing more and more books in the future!
Overall - ★★★★☆.75
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