The ski chase showdown between the killer and the protagonist had me laughing inappropriately.

I thought about DNF’ing, due to my boredom, but the possibility of a twist kept me going.

I was hoping I was wrong and that there would be a twist, but no. It is way too obvious from the start who the killer is. These details don’t add much to the plot, they just added to my boredom. Pages and pages are taken up with technological details about how Snoop functions, as well as on avalanches and skiing. Issue #3: The abundance of superfluous details. The plot is dragged out, andt even after the first major event, it continues to drag. Both constantly tell what was happening versus allowing the reader to see what was happening, which took away all the possibilities for tension and creepiness to develop.įurthermore, nothing really happens. We don’t know much about either one, except for their Snoop username and number of followers (who cares)! I didn’t find either to be a compelling narrator, but they had potential. Erin is the chalet hostess, who is hiding from her past. Liz, a former Snoop employee, now holds the power as her ownership of 2 shares in the company makes her the deciding vote on whether or not to sell. Most of the characters are whiny and entitled, and I was hoping they would all die! Erin and Liz are the only two characters who were developed, but they both fell flat for me. Some are only distinguished by hair color, others have no distinguishing qualities or features. Some of the characters just fall off and are barely mentioned again, while others play a more prominent role. There are too many characters to keep track of, none of whom I really cared enough about to pay much attention. Issue #1: The number of characters and lack of development. I am going to limit my gripes to my top 5 issues. I had a lot of issues with this book and was constantly questioning if Ruth Ware actually wrote it. When a natural disaster occurs, the group must fight to survive, but there’s a murderer amongst them, making it difficult to do so. Alliances are formed, and the atmosphere is rife with tension. They are fighting to decide whether or not to sell the company.

One by One is a thriller/mystery about a corporate staff retreat at a ski chalet that goes horribly awry, resulting in members of the group being killed off “one by one.”Ī group of technology executives arrive at a French Ski Chalet, but not all make it out alive.

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