Lo Blacklock, a travel journalist, has landed a great assignment: a week on a luxury cruise on a small boat. At first, it seems absolutely lovely. However, as the week continues, some of the guests seem less than friendly and then Lo thinks she witnesses a woman being thrown overboard. However, all of the guests, as well as the staff, are accounted for and none of them seem to be the woman that Lo met in Cabin 10, who has vanished. Or did the woman in Cabin 10 ever exist? As Lo continues her pursuit of the truth, it's clear that something has gone terribly wrong on this boat . . . and now her own life is in danger.
I had gobbled up Ruth Ware's last book, In a Dark, Dark Wood, and had been eagerly anticipating this newest story. I wasn't disappointed, and found this book to be just as dark as the previous one. Like the previous story, as well, we have a main character who doesn't seem like she has all of her s__t together, and thus is a somewhat unreliable narrator. Right before Lo goes on this cruise, she encounters a burglar in her house. Suffering anxiety, and self-medicating with alcohol, Lo isn't sleeping well. In her first evening on the cruise, she's also drinking heavily and suffering from lack of sleep, so by the time she thinks she seems a woman go over the side of the boat, you aren't sure if it's real or not. Compounding this is the revelation that she also takes anti-anxiety medication. While Lo is quite sure that she met a woman in Cabin 10, she only has tiny pieces of evidence of this mysterious woman, and when those vanish, it's hard to know if Lo really is telling the truth.
However, I trusted my gut and sure enough, there was a big twist partway through the book.
That's all I'll say --- but if you're looking for a nice pageturner to settle in with over a weekend, this might be the book for you.
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