ARC Review: One by One

 

I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest revew. This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself.

Ruth Ware has absolutely done it again. In her latest book, the small company behind a highly popular app comes to a chalet for a company retreat. What starts out as fancy food, lots of top shelf alcohol, and amazing skiing and snowboarding opportunties, quickly becomes a tension-filled debate about the future of the company.

And that's before people start dying.

I love everything Ware's written. One of the things I love the most is how she plays with classic mystery and suspense themes and genres. Here it's a return to one of my absolute favorites (possibly my all-time absolute favorite), where a group of people are completely isolated and stranded, and realize the killer must be one of them. (I even interpreted one of the lines in the book as a little homage to the ever classic And Then There Were None, but that could possibly just be my Agatha Christie obsession showing again.)

The suspense in this is through the roof. For about the last quarter of the book, the tension is so high it's almost unbearable, in that absolutely amazing page turning heart racing way that only the best authors know how to create. 

I absolutely recommend this book, and every book Ware has written. She's one of my favorite modern writers.