Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

27 reviews

minimicropup's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

3.0

Omg, the struggle for me to remember the characters for the first half or so of the book… they didn’t even have similar names it was mostly that there were a lot and they didn’t have roles so much as a few lines here and there throughout. I kept forgetting who was the photographer, who was the investor, and who was the owner of the boat! The flipping between using a character’s first name, then calling them by their last name later didn’t help (and wasn’t driven by familiarity etc., just seemed random flip flopping between how they are referred to). Eventually I caught on as certain characters had more of a role or interaction. I felt the book was interesting yet I was kind of looking forward to the audio book being done, which is why I rated it 3. It dragged on at parts (multiple escapes, confinement bits, tons of detail and repetition about what Lo is thinking). Narration by Imogen Church was well done. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer, Murder, Violence, and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual assault and Vomit

underthetreereads's review

mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

“I knew what it was like to be that girl — to realize in an instant, how incredibly fragile your hold on life could be, how paper-thin the walls of security really were.”

Lo is a travel journalist who gets the opportunity to advance her career by traveling on a luxury cruise’s maiden voyage. It quickly becomes a nightmare when she seemingly witnesses a murder in the middle of the night. Already suffering from the aftermath of being attacked in her own home, Lo must discover exactly what happened and how to make others believe her when there’s no evidence of a crime.

Lo is a delicate character. She’s suffering from chronic anxiety and depression, along with having just been attacked. She also seems to have a drinking problem. It altogether has proven her to be a very unreliable narrator, but she’s the only one we’ve got here.

First of all, what kind of journalist investigates a crime and doesn’t take any notes? She may have been a travel journalist, but she clearly stated she used to want to be an investigative reporter and that desire partially compelled her to continue her investigation on the ship. But there are literally no notes in sight, which is even worse as she’s knowingly putting herself in danger. 🤨

Anywho, 😮‍💨 this was unfortunately a very slow read for me. The primary drive pushing me to not DNF were the few passages set in the future which provided a more compelling mystery to me than the actual murder.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it. But it took some pushing through first to get there.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gaslighting, Alcohol, Addiction, Cancer, Murder, and Alcoholism

Minor: Vomit, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

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

amberjackonski's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault and Confinement

amy_joy's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

mangofraiche's review

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexism

voxelbee's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Mental illness, Alcohol, Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Death, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Cancer

Minor: Drug use, Body shaming, Xenophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Gun violence, Fatphobia, Abandonment, Vomit, Suicide, Medical content, and Blood

fallknitt's review

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

madysonlorraine's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I found the narrator unbearably annoying, I just absolutely did not care what happened to her.

One thing that really bothered me as well was her weird loyalty to and concern for her ex-boyfriend. He literally sexually assaulted her at the beginning????

In the way of writing style/atmosphere this was better than In a Dark, Dark Wood but in regard to material and plot, somehow worse.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Murder

sarabelle's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Sexual assault