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Book Review of In a Dark, Dark Wood

In a Dark, Dark Wood
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Wisp-thin plot, padded out with lots of implausible nonsense about a group of deeply unpleasant people, guests at a hen-do (aka "bachelorette party") at a remote location which ought to have "Crime Scene" on a banner over the front door.

What little plot there is relies on the characters having no common sense whatsoever. Suspense is clumsily constructed by interrupting the endless tedium of the hen-do with brief chapters in which we are told Something Awful has happened -- by, conveniently, a character with amnesia.

Awful: avoid.