Title and Author: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Setting: A cruise ship leaving from London in the present tense
Characters: Lo Blacklock is a poor journalist with anxiety working for a travel magazine. She is invited on a luxury cruise with other journalists. Richard Bullmer owns the ship and is extremely wealthy, and his wife, Anne, is suffering from cancer. The woman in cabin 10, Carrie, is secretly aboard the ship and is having an affair with Richard.
Plot: The book starts with someone breaking into Lo’s apartment, the night before the cruise ship leaves. In the morning, Lo leaves on the cruise ship, leaving London behind, and while getting ready for dinner, she asks to borrow the woman in cabin 10’s mascara. Later that evening, she witnesses someone from cabin 10 being thrown overboard, calls security, and finds out no one was ever in cabin 10. As the days progress, she attempts to uncover the murder while simultaneously receiving threats to stop digging until one night, she is kidnapped and thrown …show more content…
Overall Opinion: The novel felt a little boring in many ways without any character development. It recovered from the boring parts by leaving evidence and clues of potential killers. I appreciated the plot twist at the end, but the reveal of the murderer was confusing and did not add up. The author should have made the conclusion clearer to the reader. The Woman in Cabin 10 lacked many elements of a story and was very complicated and hard to follow.
Validation (Write a new ending of the novel):
I was so close to freedom. That is, until Richard spotted me. He stared me down like an predator closing down on their prey. My muscles clenched from fear and the frigid breeze, I was trapped. The last hope inside me scoured for a way to escape. Before I could let my mind think, he slammed open the sliding glass door and seized my wrist, leaving me
Setting: A cruise ship leaving from London in the present tense
Characters: Lo Blacklock is a poor journalist with anxiety working for a travel magazine. She is invited on a luxury cruise with other journalists. Richard Bullmer owns the ship and is extremely wealthy, and his wife, Anne, is suffering from cancer. The woman in cabin 10, Carrie, is secretly aboard the ship and is having an affair with Richard.
Plot: The book starts with someone breaking into Lo’s apartment, the night before the cruise ship leaves. In the morning, Lo leaves on the cruise ship, leaving London behind, and while getting ready for dinner, she asks to borrow the woman in cabin 10’s mascara. Later that evening, she witnesses someone from cabin 10 being thrown overboard, calls security, and finds out no one was ever in cabin 10. As the days progress, she attempts to uncover the murder while simultaneously receiving threats to stop digging until one night, she is kidnapped and thrown …show more content…
Overall Opinion: The novel felt a little boring in many ways without any character development. It recovered from the boring parts by leaving evidence and clues of potential killers. I appreciated the plot twist at the end, but the reveal of the murderer was confusing and did not add up. The author should have made the conclusion clearer to the reader. The Woman in Cabin 10 lacked many elements of a story and was very complicated and hard to follow.
Validation (Write a new ending of the novel):
I was so close to freedom. That is, until Richard spotted me. He stared me down like an predator closing down on their prey. My muscles clenched from fear and the frigid breeze, I was trapped. The last hope inside me scoured for a way to escape. Before I could let my mind think, he slammed open the sliding glass door and seized my wrist, leaving me