Zero Days by Ruth Ware is a phenomenal read. I loved every minute of this book. I can't wait for her next novel.

I was very excited to get to read Zero Days because I really liked The It Girl by Ruth Ware. Zero Days started off pretty well. I thought the concept was interesting and of course Jack would want to solve Gabe's murder, but this dragged and dragged. I really wasn't that invested in the story and made myself slog through because I wanted to review this for NetGalley. Otherwise, I probably would have stopped reading it or skipped to the end. I found it very predictable and had it figured out completely like a third of the way through.

The new Ruth Ware stands out in her catalog. She continues to deliver twisty suspense, but adds in more adventure and more of a spy element. Hard to put down all the way to the surprising end!

I was delighted to see the topic of zero days discussed in a thriller! I found it so enjoyable and compulsively readable. I have been recommending it to others right and left.

I can always count on Ruth Ware books to be an entertaining escape and this one falls into that category. Not my favorite of hers - more so because of the story than the writing, I love a good haunted house and creepy child (I'm looking at you The Turn of the Key - but I was not disappointed by the twists and turns the story took. I also found the tech piece so intriguing - are there really people who are paid to break into companies to assess security strength? Jack's growth and development across the story was definitely the highlight for me. She was a badass start to finish, but I loved how her storyline progressed.

This book is really fast-paced and keeps you turning pages to find out what happens next. Many twists and turns, which keep the storyline moving.

This one didn't grab me as much as Ware's other thrillers. Maybe it was the amount of explanation for a world few of us see close up.

This was an action packed thriller that kept my attention throughout. I would reccomend this book to all mystery thriller lovers.

Zero Days by Ruth Ware

Jack and her husband Gabe work as pen testers. They are hired by companies to break into buildings and hack into computer systems. After one such job, Jack returns home to find her husband has been murdered. Jack quickly becomes the prime suspect. The story unfolds as Jack races against time to find out who killed her husband.
Zero Days was very different from the other Ruth Ware books I have read. It was a little slow to me in parts but the tech aspects were interesting. Overall, it was entertaining but not my favorite book of hers.
Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for this eARC to read and review.

Thoroughly enjoyed! Jack Cross and her husband run a pen test business, teaming up to expose gaps in security for companies. When she returns from a job and finds him dead and clues leading in her direction, the race starts to hunt down the killer and keep herself out of jail. A tiny slow in the middle and I saw the twist coming, but this makes for a great summer thriller.

Ruth Ware has penned another thriller
to keep you glued to the page. Jack and her husband make a dynamite team who together check the vulnerability of companies. Coming home from a problem with an assignment she finds Gabe murdered and herself a suspect. On the run she slowly puts the pieces together.. You will enjoy this one but have a hard time figuring the culprit!

I love Ruth Ware, even though her stories can be a bit predictable, but they are still thrilling and entertaining. This one is of a woman that comes home and finds her husband dead. The police think she did it, so she goes on the run to find out who really did it. I would definitely recommend this read. Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley.

Ruth Ware writes another fast-paced thriller in Zero Days. Jack returns home to find her husband, Gabe, murdered and the police set their eyes on her. She escapes the police so she can find out who killed her husband, because the police already made up their mind that it was her. I think for the most part this story was very predictable, you can figure out the person that committed the murder very quickly, but I still found myself extremely entertained and I couldn't stop reading.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. There was a great deal of action. The protagonist, but finds herself injured multiple times throughout the novel and it might’ve been a little bit unbelievable she accomplished what she did. I wasn’t shocked to find who the murderer was, but I still found it thoroughly entertaining and action packed.

Thanks to NetGalley for this digital ARC.

Another fast-paced thriller from Ruth Ware! What more do you need to know? Go read it - now!

Fans of Ruth Ware (and most of us are), will welcome a standalone novel, Zero Days, about Jack and Gabe, a married couple who have a Penetration testing business, where they find the vulnerabilities in companies to prevent break-ins and data leaks. Gabe, who has the ability to hack into most computer programs directs his wife through a headset while she breaks into the businesses One night, as she returns home from one of these jobs, she finds Gabe at his computer with his throat cut. The police think she did it, and she goes on the run trying to find who would do this to her husband.

Ware is an excellent story teller and inserts plenty of twists and turns into the scenarios where Jack is barely able to stay alive and still stay ahead of the police.


As in her other bestselling books, Ware does an excellent job of developing her characters and they seem real. Unfortunately, the characters in this novel have been reduced to trailer trash because they use so much profanity. Readers want to love their protagonists and want to relate to them; that isn’t possible here because although cheapness is trending in younger people nowadays, it doesn’t make it right or enjoyable for those of us who speak properly and have a vocabulary that doesn’t require us to use profanity to verbalize our thoughts.

Although this novel is exciting, the profanity ruins it. Most fans of Ware will want her to go back to her old style where her prose isn’t offensive and all ages can read the novel. This novel could have been a good one and is not recommended to those who prefer not to read tasteless garbage.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

This book was ....fine. I might have enjoyed it more if I didn't read The It Girl less than two years ago; there were just enough similarities to make Zero Days somewhat predictable.

Four solid stars for this fast paced thriller. If you enjoyed the movie Mr and Mrs Smith, you will enjoy this book. At first, I waa hesitant to dive into a book about computer hacking. Ruth Ware does an excellent job explaining it. It was just a tiny, tiny bit repetitive.

Fast, compelling read. Jack (Jacinda) Cross is a Penetration Specialist (pen tester for short); she and her husband Gabe find physical and computer security holes in business around London. She looks for the physical weaknesses, Gabe does the hacking. One night she has some issues inside a building she had broken into and was taken to a police station where she had to plead her case for innocence.

When Jack finally got home in the middle of the night she found her husband in a pool of blood. Being the wife, she became a person of interest pretty quickly, Jack decided that no one but her really cared to get the truth so she went on the lamb, so to speak. Because of her ability to break into places she was at a slight advantage but she also got injured and had to deal with that.

I would normally stay clear of thrillers about computer hacking because I really don't understand it, but Ruth Ware explained everything in laymen's terms. I would never do the things that Jack does but there is a reason why she is able to do them while on the run and we understand her past and why some people and places are off limits to her.

I enjoyed the read and could see this on the screen with a strong determined female lead.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

This was a dnf for me. I just couldn't get over the number of times they said "babe" in the first 2 chapters.