In the present day, Hannah is about 28, living in Edinburgh and expecting her first child with her husband, Will. Hannah quickly discovers that April and Will have a thing going on, to her disappointment.īefore the school year is over, Hannah will have found April dead in their suite, strangled. The group bonds over a game of strip poker, and Hannah becomes enamored of Will when he saves her from the embarrassment of having to take off more than she’s comfortable with. Hannah is drawn into a circle that forms her first night at school: besides her and April, there are Will and Hugh, who Hannah knows from the posh school they all attended, as well as the more working-class Ryan and Emily. She’s an early adopter of Instagram and a sort of baby influencer. In this case, the first person Hannah meets is her roommate, April Clarke-Cliveden.
As with many of these type of “dark academia” books, she’s a fish out of water, intimidated and awed by the rich and beautiful people she immediately encounters. Hannah Jones arrives at Oxford as an overachiever, the only child of a single mother. Also, I had heard good things about your books, so I was jazzed to try The It Girl.
I tend to like dual timelines anyway (more than the average reader, I think), and I also tend to like college-set stories (my fondness for New Adult romance series set in faux-Ivy-League schools is strong evidence of this). I’ve read probably half a dozen books with similar descriptions: dual timelines that start with a group of friends in college, one ends up murdered, and years later the protagonist tries to unravel the truth behind the murder.ĭespite the fact that the execution of the books I’ve read has been spotty, there’s something I love about this plot. I was alerted to this book by a friend who knew it was in my suspense wheelhouse. Jennie B Reviews / Book Reviews British Mystery / Dual Timelines / Oxford / thriller 9 Comments
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