So I thought the mystery and a “thrill” of this novel were both stronger, more interesting, and better written than her previous novel. I am generally a sucker for a good English mystery novel, and one of the major improvements in this novel from the last is that the voice itself is better rendered than the previous one. This more or less actually feels like a person, and the narrator of In a Dark Dark Wood did not. Another good step forward for this one was […]
“Maybe that was closer to the truth–we weren’t captor and captive, but two animals in different compartments of the same cage. Hers was just slightly larger.”
The Woman in Cabin 10 falls in the genre of “unreliable female narrator suspense/thriller” novel that has become increasingly popular in the last decade. Lo Blacklock is a British journalist whose home is burgled, while she is home, a few days before she is set to profile a cruise to Norway for her magazine. She is a bit shaken and has taken to self medicating with alcohol and anxiety medication. Soon after boarding the ship she has a fateful meeting with a woman in the […]
The Girl on the Hen
I am a sucker for a British thriller. And this one is pretty much ok. It’s perfectly suited to a non-taxing reading or reading event. There’s not a whole to say about depth or intrigue or anything else. But it’s competently-written and competently plotted, and won’t be a book for the ages, like I think Gone Girl is, but it could be the start of a perfectly solid career. If Ruth Ware stops writing books, she will likely be forgotten as a writer in due time. […]
You Really Shouldn’t Share Mascara…That’s My Takeaway From All of This
This book keeps popping up on book lists everywhere and then someone in our book club picked it, but then changed her mind to have us read Just Mercy instead (this was last year which is why I don’t have a review for it). But…I had already purchased the book and so I decided that eventually I would get to it. After reading The Kind Worth Killing I realized that I’ve been missing suspense and mystery in my life. Soooo…I turned to The Woman […]