Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

35 reviews

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

larareads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Confinement, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

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.

sammietee's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Kidnapping

Moderate: Murder and Cancer

phantasmaboo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.0

The Woman in Cabin 10 follows journalist a journalist named Lo as she investigates the disappearance of a woman in the cabin next to her; a woman that no one else remembers seeing. 

Overall, I love the premise of the book, but I do wish that Lo had a bit more agency in the story than she was given. It seemed as if many things happened to her rather than because of her. 

Another issue I had was the pacing. While I think it was overall okay, the beginning and end of the book seemed to drag on forever. That’s not to say that there’s no payoff for that (particularly for the end), but it just seemed long. The beginning narrative, however, really only seems to set up Lo as an unreliable narrator and is barely mentioned other than to cast doubt on her story. I found this to be unnecessary, as it wasn’t built in enough for me to believe that Lo was an unreliable narrator. 

Another thing I will mention was that the author uses some fatphobic language and seems to glamorize “skinny” characters. It’s not something that ruined the book for me, but it was present throughout. 

Still, it was an enjoyable read and I couldn’t stop reading once I got to the last 20% of the book or so. I would recommend it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder and Suicide

Minor: Fatphobia

dylpickles's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Murder, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Classism, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

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

headachesince03's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Murder, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual harassment, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gore

kasssidyy's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

Spoilers ahead: Overall, I enjoyed this. The plot and characters were fleshed out, and I definitely felt real suspense and emotion for them, Lo & Carrie especially.

This novel wasn’t groundbreaking, it followed some normal thriller tropes (woman has trauma, mental illness, no one believes her) BUT it absolutely had me guessing, I really did not see the Anne/Carrie fiasco happening - nor did I honestly expect Lo to survive. 

Having it set on a cruise ship was the scariest part. That feeling of literally having no place to go - was written very well, and definitely creeped me out.

The burglary was still the scariest part for me for some reason - I really expected that to come back but it just ended up being really unfortunate for Lo.

Can we get a moment of silence of Ben? Ended up being a decent guy, with just some creepy tendencies.  I’ll definitely read more by this author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual harassment

calamitywindpetal's review

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death

Moderate: Sexism, Blood, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Confinement, and Vomit

Minor: Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Fatphobia