The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Narrator: Imogen Church
Pages: 340
Published by Gallery/Scout Press
Publication Date July 19th 2016
Source: Library
Genres: Thriller
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Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo's desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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The Woman in Cabin Ten starts with a burglary in Lo, the main character’s home. While the break-in did show the character’s state of mind– paranoia I didn’t feel that it belonged and wondered if there would have been a better way to show this.
When everyone was gathered on board the ship and the characters were being introduced, I couldn’t help but think “The Butler did it!”
The beginning of The Woman in Cabin 10 was a real mind-bender, and like Memento I wondered if the story would be moving backward with it all making sense in the end. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t.
Towards the middle, the plot began to ramble. Like Lo’s thoughts, the story started to go around in circles and I really think some of it could have been left out.
I will give Ruth Ware this, there was a pretty good twist as to the Woman in Cabin 10. I was thrown. However, the woman in cabin 10 started to annoy me pretty quickly and was hoping she would take a plunge into the water.
This is probably the perfect concluding update as it is repetitive to what I have already said. I started to get deja vu as the dialogue and plot started to repeat itself and went around, and around in circles. I wanted to scream enough already!
However, The Woman in Cabin 10 still held my attention, I just feel it is better described as a beach read instead of a bump-in-the-night thriller.
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