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The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

19 reviews

katelynprice's review

adventurous mysterious tense

4.0

Excellent ending. I love Lo’s tenacity and the feminism. It was clear without feeling too heavy-handed. This is a solid book that makes me want to read more from Ruth Ware. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Infidelity, Alcohol, Confinement, Blood, Sexual harassment, Cursing, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Cancer and Panic attacks/disorders

twistykris's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Confinement

Moderate: Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Cancer

Minor: Suicide, Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Vomit

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I wanted to see what happened at the end of this one, but I had a hard time getting into it. It felt too long, but the beginning also felt too quick; the action started before I could get to know Lo as a character, so I never really developed sympathy or a connection to her. I also felt like she was kind of terrible at common sense and any sort of decision-making. Weird stuff going on? Better drink a whole bunch. Saw a weird thing? Better harass everyone about it until they're positive that you're unstable. Important object? Better just leave it lying around for housekeeping to throw out. She was almost too annoying to root for. Also what the living hell was that

whole assault scene

that was brushed off like nothing?? That was not okay! Knocking my rating down another quarter point for that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcohol, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Sexual assault, Bullying, Classism, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Death, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Terminal illness, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Grief

renpuspita's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 

"Kabin itu memang kosong. Tidak ada tamu di kabin sebelah. Kabin itu tidak berpenumpang sedari awal".

The Woman in Cabin 10 ini contoh novel yang ga ngerti sebenarnya mau fokus di misteri, psychology thriller atau malah jadi survival genre. Semuanya dicampur aduk oleh pengarangnya. Sebenarnya gue ga keberatan, seandainya tokoh utamanya minimal bikin simpatik. Astaga, Lo, literally act like a loser dan bahkan tindakan bodohnya pun konsisten dan permanen dari awal sampai hampir akhir cerita. Gue ngerti kalau trend buat novel dengan genre psychological thriller itu biasanya unreliable narrator dan ga perlu disukai. Okay, unlikable is fine, tapi minimal bikinlah pembacamu bersimpati pada karakter utama apalagi penceritaannya dari sudut pandang orang pertama. Gue berkali - kali tepok jidat dan bahkan sampe bilang "syukurin lo" pas tahu Lo jadi kena musibah. 

Kenapa kok gue kesel sama cara penulisnya membawakan narasi Lo? Berkali - kali dibilang kurang tidur, padahal pembaca juga udah tahu sejak awal Lo itu kurang tidur semenjak kerampokan. Terus ga riset dengan baik saat ditugaskan membuat artikel untuk pelayaran kapal pesiar, padahal katanya jurnalis dengan pengalaman 10 tahun. Walau bisa dibela dengan alasan Lo ini dasarnya emang punya anxiety parah dan juga abis kemalingan, rasanya itu juga jadi alasan yang lemah. Sejak awal emang susah mau simpatik sama Lo, jelas - jelas punya pacar yang bucin parah tapi pacarnya malah dijudesin bahkan begitu taking things for granted pas si pacar, Judah, rela meninggalkan pekerjaannya dengan bilang kalau Lo ga pernah minta Judah buat berkorban. Gue KECEWA sampe akhir Judah masih setia sama Lo, alih - alih ninggalin cewek ga tahu diri ini karena ya Judah itu terlalu BAIK buat Lo. Ga cuma judes ke Judah, tapi Lo juga agresif ke banyak orang dan alasannya selalu karena panic attacknya serta kurang tidur. Udah tahu kurang tidur, butuh minum obat anti depressant, Lo malah MABUK - MABUKAN. Gini mau simpatik gimana coba, hahaha.

The Woman in Cabin 10 sebenarnya menggambarkan dengan baik idiom "no good deeds goes unpunished". Apa yang terjadi sama Lo, dengan penyelidikan amatirannya adalah karena dia ngerasa kalau wanita yang jatuh ke laut dari Kabin 10, pas di sebelah kabin tempat Lo, sama nasibnya kayak Lo. Ga berdaya karena tindakan kejahatan orang lain, sama seperti Lo yang ga berdaya abis kemalingan (wicis, gue ga ngerti kenapa Lo tetep bersikeras naik ke kapal Aurora abis kemalingan mengingat dia punya riwayat serangan panik dan juga kurang tidur. Segitu ngejar karir deh si Lo ini). Masalahnya semuanya jadi kacau karena Lo yang sering mabuk dan inisiatifnya buat menyelidiki kasus pembunuhan malah membuatnya jadi incaran si pelaku yang sebenarnya. Dua pertiga novel ini gue jabanin dengan sangat sabar membaca tingkah laku Lo yang bikin gregetan (nuduh sana sini, sinis ke banyak orang) dan baru mencapai momentum setelah twist terungkap. Bagi gue, twistnya emang rada - rada outlandish walau mungkin banget kejadian. Lucunya walau Lo ini tokoh utama tapi bagi gue 

  justru Carrie, wanita di Kabin 10 yang dianggap awalnya tewas oleh Lo, yang lebih pantas jadi tokoh utama. Walau sama - sama unlikable character kayak Lo, tapi Carrie lebih punya alasan yang kuat untuk apa yang dia lakukan selama ini. Dan bahkan menurut gue endingnya ditulis dengan cukup oke 

. Ruth Ware mungkin ingin menulis kisah seorang cewek yang ga dipercaya karena histeris dan histerisnya tuh karena dia punya anxiety dan kurang tidur. Sayangnya eksekusinya kurang bagus, meskipun mendekati akhir cerita emang ada perkembangan karakter pada Lo yang cukup signifikan. Tapi gimana lagi, udah kadung kesel sama tingkah laku Lo.

Ga bakal gue baca ulang tapi kalau nyari mystery dan thriller suspense (dan sedikit unsur survival) dengan unreliable narrator, menurut gue, The Woman in Cabin 10 masih sedikit lebih baik dibandingkan dengan The Silent Patient. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Confinement, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use

Moderate: Physical abuse and Infidelity

Minor: Vomit, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

michelle_my_belle's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Vomit, Terminal illness, Blood, Confinement, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Cancer

babudarabu's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Kidnapping, Classism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity

daepyonimst's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Blood and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer and Infidelity

sadgirlsidney's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

 I fucking loved this book.

The premise sounds benign and a bit boring but it sucked me in and had me absolutely enthralled. So much guessing, so much wondering, I loved every second of it. Lo is such a fun character to follow, she’s realistically flawed and a bit of a mess because of it but we love her anyway. There’s a decent sized cast of characters that were thankfully not just forgettable blank faces, which I find tends to be an issue with novels such as this. I overall really enjoyed it, the ending was a TOUCH rushed but overall it was fantastic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, and Mental illness

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicide, and Cancer

Minor: Infidelity and Sexual assault

growintogardens's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Blood

fraise's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Murder, Blood, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual harassment, and Domestic abuse

To contextualize some of the content warnings: the drug use is

prescribed antidepressants, but they are a vector for abuse.

somewhat relatedly, the gaslighting is

someone suggesting the MC is delusional, but the extent to which the person saying is actively trying to gaslight her isn't clear. also, content warning for home Invasion.