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The It Girl by Ruth Ware
3.0
dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

DAMN! But in a “really thought I wasn’t gonna be able to finish this” way. 

This book … dragssssss lmao but no in all honesty this book took what felt like forever for me to finish and I think it’s something about the descriptiveness of the book. In this it felt like paragraphs kept going and going on about things we already knew or didn’t really … care(?) to know. It could have been cut like a good 100 pages and zero of the plot would have been lost. 

All that being said I did enjoy the second half where it does pick up a good amount to keep the reader going to the end. I did also enjoy the way that the author led me to guess who it was at the beginning, question my guess, and then question that guess. The characters weren’t horrible to read about but I didn’t care for any at the end. This was promising I just really wish it was shorter so I didn’t feel like I was fighting to pay attention.