Zero Days – Book Review

Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband’s murderer.

Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her.

Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer.

I always make a point of reading nearly every single one of Ruth Ware’s books. Unfortunately, this book wasn’t her best book–I would literally say, this might be the worst book I have read from Ruth Ware.

Jack and Gabe are hackers and hired by companies hire them to hack into the rival companies’ computer system. On one of their missions, it went wrong and Jack goes back to the apartment to find Gabe murdered. The police suspect that Jack would have killed her own husband and so begins the cat and mouse chase game with Jack trying to clear her name by finding who the real killer is.

This is not really the typical Ruth Ware thriller book. The reason why I say this is the worst book is because the whole story was unrealistic. Jack gets an injury and her injury gets infected yet she managed to survive till the end seems to be a miracle. The whole story is very predictable which made the whole book less interesting. Although I feel the premise of the story was interesting, nevertheless, I felt the whole story should have been shorter and so many unnecessary scenes are there in the book which is not really necessary in my opinion for the scene. If you however like action packed thrillers, then this book might be the one for you. I found myself skimming through the page. The ending was confusing and I felt the ending was weak as a whole.

Have you read Ruth Wate books before? I highly recommend The Death of Mrs Westaway and Turn of the Key, the two books which made me enjoy thriller and which made me want to read more of Ruth Ware books. But in my honest opinion, I don’t really recommend her latest novels Zero Days.

Nonetheless, I cannot wait for her next novel!