Review: Snowflakes - Book #1 Hush Collection - Ruth Ware - July 2020 Some days I get in these indecisive moods where I know I want to read something, but nothing grabs me. When I feel like this, I have a few quick reads on my Kindle that I know will just scratch that reading itch and hit the right spot. Snowflakes by Ruth Ware was one of those books. It starts with the War happening in what sounded like the UK and police/guards coming to the family's door. We hear gunshots as some of the family manage to escape and others are killed or so we believe. As I read this book, I imagined it being set in the 1940s at the time of World War 2, however, as we move along with the book we discover all is not what it seems. Laura and her siblings were raised on an island and were told that they were safe there from the War happening on the mainland, one that killed their mother. However, Laura is about to learn when her brother Cain disappears one night that all is not what it appears and that ...

Review: Zero Days - Ruth Ware - June 2023 For me personally, when it comes to Ruth Ware's books - she is a hit/miss author. Before reading this book, I had tried six of her titles three I enjoyed and three were DNFS. This now puts her hits in the lead and the funny thing is with the books I have enjoyed, they have been really good reads. This one first grabbed me with the blurb as it talked not only about Agatha Christie and the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which is one of my favourite films with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. In Zero Days, Jack Stone and her husband Gabe work as what is known as Penetration testers. Gabe does the computing side and Jack - does the action side and people side. They are hired to test the company's security. On the night of their latest job, everything goes wrong with Jack and she finds herself - stuck at the police station. She rings home and no one answers, this feels odd. When she arrives home, her whole life comes crashing to a halt as she finds...

Review: The Death of Mrs. Westaway - Ruth Ware - May 2018 Harriet aka Hal is busy working as a fortune teller and tarot card reader and is strapped for cash as she has loan sharks hunting her down. She had to take a small loan out as her mum died leaving her with debt she couldn't at the time pay. She has repaid them numerous times, but they still want more. One day, she returns home to find a letter from a lawyer stating that her grandmother has passed away and she is required to come for the will reading. The thing is it has her name on it, but as far as she is aware - this is not her grandmother, but the timing is right for Harriet to get away for a few days. Harriet contacts the lawyer and is soon swept into the life of the Westaway Estate and into the Westaway family. Things, however, are dark and gloomy, and it seems the family is hiding a few dark secrets up their sleeve. Soon Hal will learn the truth of who she is and why her mother kept the fact ...

  Review: The Lying Game - Ruth Ware - June 2017 Four friends at High School started a game called The Lying Game. They got points based on their lies and the more elaborate or more people believed, the more points they got. That was until tragedy struck and the four girls did something that night that they never thought they would and eventually they were kicked out of the school and for three of them, they never returned to Salten. Now fifteen years later, the four of them will reunite when they receive a text message reading "I need you." Isa, now a mum takes her baby to Salten, Thea arrives and Fatima. Their friend Kate has summoned them . A body part has washed ashore, and the part could be connected to Kate's dad who died those many years ago, and they hid his body in the water. Many people thought that he wouldn't just disappear and that the girls had something to do with his disappearance. What will happen though when all four star...