Zero Days by Ruth Ware

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🕵️‍♀️ Zero Days by Ruth Ware — This Book Will Spike Your Heart Rate

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 out of 5)
Genre: Thriller / Action Suspense
Warning: 🚨 Full of spoilers ahead! Proceed at your own risk (but also... you’re gonna want to).

📚 Quick Summary (With a Heart Rate Monitor)

Let me just say this: Ruth Ware understood the assignment. Zero Days is a non-stop, heart-thumping, breath-holding ride. It’s like The Fugitive but with fewer trains and more hacker-vibes. I usually read psychological thrillers while sipping coffee, but this one had me chugging Gatorade like I’d run a marathon.

💻 Meet the Power Couple: Jack & Gabe

Our story kicks off with Jack and Gabe, a married couple who make their living as penetration testers (yes, it sounds awkward, but it’s not what you think). Basically, they break into buildings and hack systems on purpose, to help companies find security weaknesses. Think ethical hacking meets Ocean’s Eleven—but with two people and much less George Clooney.

Gabe is the keyboard wizard, Jack is the parkour ninja. Together, they’re unstoppable... until Jack comes home one night to find Gabe dead. Like, throat-slit-in-their-own-home dead. Yikes.

🕵️‍♀️ She’s Not Just the Widow, She’s the Suspect

Naturally, Jack becomes suspect number one. And she already has a complicated history with the police (courtesy of an abusive ex-boyfriend... who’s also a cop 🙄), so she does what every thriller heroine must: goes on the run.

What follows is Jack channeling her inner Jason Bourne—only more emotionally scarred and with less access to clean socks. She’s sleeping in warehouses, dodging security cams, and pulling off survival stunts with the kind of stress level that would give me hives.

🧠 The Mystery: Who Killed Gabe and Why?

As Jack pieces things together (while surviving on vending machine crackers), she starts suspecting someone close: Cole, Gabe’s longtime best friend. You know the type—friendly on the outside, shady on the inside.

Turns out, Gabe had found a zero-day vulnerability (hence the book title), which he planned to report responsibly. Cole, on the other hand, was monetizing these vulnerabilities by blackmailing companies. Classic “I’m a genius but also a greedy dirtbag” situation.

In a panicked move, Cole gave Gabe’s name to some Very Bad People, essentially signing Gabe’s death warrant to save his own skin. So no, Cole didn’t hold the knife, but he might as well have.

🧨 Plot Twist After Plot Twist (With a Side of Justice)

Jack manages to expose Cole, survive several murder attempts, and even make friends with the cop who was hunting her (shoutout to Detective Malik, 10/10). Malik even helps her take down her abusive ex and gets some of his toxic cop bros reprimanded. Now that’s what I call justice.

And then—twist of twists—Jack finds out she’s pregnant. Yes, Gabe’s gone, but a piece of him is still with her. Excuse me while I sob in the fetal position.

🎯 Final Verdict: High-Stakes, High-Energy, and Worth Every Page

Ruth Ware really pulled off something fresh here. This book is fast-paced, emotional, and filled with realistic tension. It leans a little more action-thriller than her usual locked-room vibe, but it absolutely works. Jack is flawed, fierce, and completely unforgettable.

📌 TL;DR

  • ✅ Jack & Gabe = married hacker duo

  • ✅ Gabe ends up dead 😢

  • ✅ Jack is on the run, trying to prove her innocence

  • ✅ The culprit = Gabe’s “friend” Cole

  • ✅ Cole is taken down, karma does its thing

  • ✅ Jack’s pregnant, justice is served, end scene 🎬

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💬 What Did You Think?

Did you love Zero Days too? Was Cole on your suspect list? Let’s talk about it in the comments!

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