Reviews for The Dark Room

The average rating for The Dark Room based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-07 00:00:00 Goldie Litton Gosh this one gets some mixed reviews but I really liked it. In fact I liked it so much I stayed up way too late at night to finish it. The mystery aspect was really good and I only just managed to guess the identity of the murderer largely because the other suspects were being slowly eliminated. It was an interesting read because I was never sure of the sincerity of any of the characters. Even the main character, Jinx, lied half the time and the reader was left in the same amount of doubt as the police about what was actually going on. I think this is the third book I have read by Minette Walters and as far as I am concerned she has not let me down so far!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-24 00:00:00 Thomas Woodall Almost 5 stars. This books is more than 20 years old and has gathered a bit of dust over the years, i.e. technology is not up to date and racism/sexism are displayed significantly more openly than today. But if you are ready to overlook this, you are in for a great read. A young woman wakes up in a hospital with amnesia. She is told that she had a car accident trying to commit suicide. Based on this starting point the author assembles a complex puzzle out of bits and pieces of small information scraps. She uses a variety of ways to transmit information: Police reports, newspaper articles, meeting minutes, letters and very short chapters narrated from different POVs. The whole picture develops slowly and takes a lot of turns, so that I kept guessing till the end I thouroughly enjoyed this book and the only reason I didn't rate it with 5 stars was the silly romance part at the very end, which I found completeley unnecessary.