In this tightly wound
story, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has
just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise
with only a handful of cabins. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but
pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and
the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the
deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a
nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers
remain accounted for—and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has
happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or
someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong…
With surprising
twists and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it
is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another intense read. @goodreads
I just knew I was going to love this book because I love the cover. I
know, that almost never happens =) Then I thought this was just going to
be a lets all get drunk at all times and then say stupid things and
yell at boyfriend and get drunk some more and see a body on a ship, the
end, goodbye. Well, it was kinda like that. What is it with everyone
having to be drunk all of the time in these books?
When
I first started the book last night, I couldn't put it down. I wanted
to get to the ship and see what was going on. Then once we were on
there, I wanted to keep going but sleep took me away.
The
beginning of the story was bleh for me because I just wanted to get to
the boat and I didn't see any reason for that beginning. Then when
you're on the boat and the beginning is used against the main character,
Lo Blacklock, I began to understand.
Lo is a travel journalist
and is finally getting to go on a trip because her boss is preggers.
Unfortunately for her, she sees a body get thrown off the boat, no one
believes her, she has no proof and when she does get proof, it gets
removed. She wonders if she's crazy or what.
I just wanted to
get to the end to see what in the world was going on and who did what,
when and how. I certainly didn't think it was actually what happened.
Then throughout the book there were reports of Lo Blacklock's death and
they found a body and I was like, "What?"
It's all crazy train,
er, crazy boat, but I did enjoy it. Unfortunately, I didn't love it near
enough to buy the book with the awesome cover. Or did I?
GOODREADS REVIEW:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2016467197
Hello, Melissa. I actually didn't like the reports strewn throughout the book all that much. It didn't build as much tension for me as it was supposed to, but I still enjoyed the book. I was wondering if you ever take review requests from authors as I am one and am looking for reviewers of my upcoming psychological mystery-thriller.
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