It Girl book review

There are so many ways that you can be the popular girl, the it girl, the one that has everybody after them, everybody wants them. But you can also be a nightmare. Keep reading to find out what book I'm talking about today. 

Hey, it's Kyla Denanyoh, and today we're talking all about Mean Girls. Well, mean girls in the UK (United Kingdom). So we'll call this one the It Girl. The author of the book is Ruth Ware. The genre of the book is fiction. The theme of the book is a suspense thriller. 

So I had never read a book by Ruth Ware. And let me tell you, that was a good one to start with. The It Girl is all about Hannah; she's in love. She's happy. She and Will are having a baby. Well, Hannah is distracted. She misses her doctor's appointment. She doesn't know if Will is cheating or if they're having financial issues. She's being secretive from him. All of the stuff. And it's all because this girl dies when they're at university, and Hannah blames it on one person. We don't know if they're really a killer. We're not quite sure. It's a mess. 

Oh, and to wrap it all up, the girl who dies was an absolute terror. She's always playing tricks and jokes on other people. Sometimes the jokes go way too far, and that's kind of what happened in this case. 

Off jump, would I reread this book? Yes. And I say yes because I had to read it twice. 

The first time I read it, I was really mad at Hannah. Like Hannah, just let it go, okay? Your friend thought this person was the killer. It turns out that they weren't the killer. I get it, but forgive yourself, move on. You're having a baby. Well, that was a really dismissive way of reading the book. 

The second time I read it, I really hated Will, Hannah's husband. Because Will knew that April liked him, but then Hannah was with him. Did Hannah steal Will from April? Or did April end up hurting Hannah, and I missed it? It seemed like there were so many missing pieces the first time I read it. But then the second time I read it, I was distraught with Will because, yeah, I get it. You're allowed to like someone and then like someone else. But Hannah and April were roommates. And then it just was too much. It was like, weren't there other women on campus? It was just too much.

So let me tell you the end of the book, I never really cared for that part. I was just like, okay, all right, sure. I didn't really think that there was a big enough reason or motive for Hugh to do anything. He was one of the friends, yes he misses them, yes he wants to come back. The second time I read the book, I thought, "Okay, I don't like Will, I don't like Hugh, I don't like Hannah, pretty much all of the characters." There wasn't one character in the book that I wanted, maybe November. Still, other than that there wasn't one character where you were like rooting for them all of the characters Will, Hannah, April, Hugh all of them had done something that made you really dislike them.

This book was a thriller because it was all about whodunit. Was it you? Was it you? I'm mad at you. I dislike you. But does that make you a killer?  It was really good, it was really, really good, and then the title, I think, is intriguing because you're reading it and you're like Hannah, is that girl. Hannah is the it girl. She wasn't in college. She is now. She has the perfect husband. She has the perfect baby. She has the perfect life. Oh, she wrongly accused someone. Oh, her best friend died in college. Oh, the characters. There was not one endearing character short of November. And we only get to see her for a couple of pages.

So the book was absolutely fascinating because it really does take a long while for you to figure out what happened. Was the motive legitimate? It was good. It was good. And if that's what Ruth was going for, I mean, she definitely did it because you're reading the book and there's all kinds of intrigue and craziness and stuff going on. And in fact, the book reminded me of this book by Leanne Moriarty called The Husband's Secret. And it's like when you find out that your spouse did something absolutely bizarre, maybe even before you knew them, how would that change things? How would that change everything? 

Until the next book review, Kyla