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.
The Review
THE IT GIRL by Ruth Ware
In THE IT GIRL, we’re following Hannah in two timelines. In the past, she is at school in her first year at Oxford with her infamous roommate and It Girl, April.
In the current timeline, Hannah is pregnant and married to Will who was in her college circle, back at Oxford.
One day she receives unsettling news that a killer she help put away has died. This news sends Hannah on a one-woman investigation as she searches the echoes of her past to make things right.
Reading this book felt a bit like chasing a ghost.
As the main character is working things out so are we, the reader and it takes a while.
The more Hannah digs into the past to discover the truth, the more precarious things become for her and everyone around her.
It creates this very effective unsettled feeling.
And although there were quite a few aspects to the story that was unbelievable they didn’t deter from the overall enjoyment of the book.
The It Girl landed somewhere between three and four stars, rounded up to four because overall I enjoyed the reading experience.
THE IT GIRL…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thanks to Netgalley Gallery Books, Gallery/Scout Press for the advanced copy!
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