Thank you Simon Audio for the gifted audiobook.
by: Ruth Ware
narrated by: Imogen Church
rating: really liked
Hannah Jones lives her life with the knowledge that there is the before, and there is the after. When she shows up for her first year as a student at Oxford and finds herself pulled into the orbit of her dazzling roommate April Couuts-Cloviden. But at the end of the second term, her after begins when she finds April dead in their room and Hannah has to provide evidence of who did it.
In the after, Hannah is married to April's former boyfriend Will and expecting their first child, when her world is once again rocked when the man who was convicted in Hannah's evidence of killing April dies in prison and a reporter approaches Hannah with some evidence that has Hannah questioning what is the truth about April's death.
I was fully invested in both storylines of this book, the before and the after. And I was so certain several times I knew what the truth was. But Ruth Ware takes us on a journey through this one to make us question the truths we hold as anchors and the people we trust as we are unsettled. I think the way April is painted as a victim and a villain are fascinating and added such depth to the story and Hannah's recollections.
Plus, as always, the incomparable Imogen Church knocks the narration out of the park.
Content Warning: Hannah is pregnant in this book and some scenes were uncomfortable for me to read as a pregnant woman. So just a heads up for that.
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