The Woman in Cabin 10
A Novel
Book - 2016
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JOANNE'S MYSTERY PICKS
If you liked The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl then chances are you’ll like Ruth Ware’s latest. Lo Blacklock is a journalist who writes for a travel magazine and has just been given the best assignment imaginable: a week on board a luxury cruise. Feeling a bit fragil... Read More »
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Add a SummaryLo Blacklock is a travel writer with an outstanding career opportunity- the chance to cover the Aurora, a luxury cruise liner with views of the Northern Lights. Despite her apartment being ransacked right before she leaves, Lo refuses to miss the cruise, though she self-medicates with alcohol and antidepressants to deal with her PTSD and insomnia. On the first evening of the trip, Lo encounters a flustered young woman in Cabin 10 before an awkward dinner with the other journalists, including her ex-boyfriend Ben, the yacht’s owner Lord Bullmer, and his wife Anne who is a cancer patient. Lo wakes up when she hears a scream and a loud splash and runs to the balcony where she thinks she sees a woman’s body in the water. She’s sure it’s the woman she met earlier that day in Cabin 10, but the head of security assures her that the room has been empty the entire time. No one believes Lo due to her drinking, so she spends the rest of the voyage trying to solve the case on her own, even though someone is now threatening Lo herself.
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Add a Quote"I love ports. I love the smell of tar and sea air, and the scream of the gulls. Maybe it's years of taking the ferry to France for summer holidays, but a harbor gives me a feeling of freedom in a way that an airport never does. Airports say work and security checks and delays. Ports say... I don't know. Something completely different. Escape, maybe.” - p. 34
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Add a CommentIt wasn't bad but I've read better. I felt that I really didn't get into it. It was good enough to keep me reading mainly because I wanted to know what happened to the woman in cabin 10.
What a fantastic book. Never a dull moment on a cruise ship. A must read. Enjoy!!
This book was so so so good!! Fantastic story, very well written and an amazing twist at the end! That last page though...INCREDIBLE
Pretty good read. It was fast-paced and interesting, but it felt like things could have tied together a little better or been more in-depth.
This was so good and creepy. Creep factor aided by reading by headlamp due to loss of power.
The suggestion that this book is written in the style of Agatha Christie is an insult to Ms. Christie. Overly enamored of the elite vs. depicting them as mortals with flaws in elegant clothes and settings was only one of the distinctions.
The slowest plot I’ve ever read and lots of filler. I hoped that it would pick up but it never did. The ending wasn’t satisfying for suffering through 300 pages and not thought out.
Ware's strong writing, and her strengths in strong psychological characterization and moral outrage at class privilege are front and center. Well worth taking the ride!
So the book been lying on my table after the first few chapters, not sure if I can get back into it, don't really like the characters, !
A great suspenseful read. This kept me up late at night reading and reading and reading. A satisfying mystery and a quick read. I will look for other books by this author.