But that's where my next problem resides. Add in the means of transportation.boat in place of train. It's another protagonist witnesses murder and no one believes her story. Replace the alcoholism with intense anxiety giving others reason to question her reliability as a witness. So I felt like we took Lo and made her unlikable and unreliable in the same way that was done in The Girl on the Train. Is her anxiety-ridden mind mixed with the lack of sleep and abundance of alcohol playing tricks on her? Lo insists something happened. There aren't any passengers missing, staff unaccounted for, nothing amiss other than Lo's report of what she witnessed. Which is odd because Lo swears she borrowed mascara from a girl in cabin 10 before dinner. The guest who was supposed to be in that room didn't make the cruise. She calls security to report what happened, but there's nothing in cabin 10. She goes out onto the veranda to see blood on the neighboring balcony. It isn't far into the trip when Lo is woken by a scream from the cabin next door followed by a loud splash. It's rather small with only 10 cabins, a maximum of 20 passengers, and a handpicked staff on board.

The Aurora is a brand new super-luxury cruise liner that will travel around the Norwegian fjords for it's maiden voyage. This could be her way of finally getting that promotion if Lo can just keep it together enough to network among important people and help put their small travel magazine, Velocity, on the map. But she still has to go on this week long luxury cruise assignment for work since her boss is on maternity leave. She got in a huge fight with her boyfriend.

When a break-in occurs in her apartment with her present, it brings her fear and anxiety to a whole new high. Laura Blacklock (she goes by Lo) suffers from extreme anxiety to the point of needing medicine to keep it under control. I guess I'll delve into the plot a tiny bit to get my point across while still avoiding spoilers. It felt like the author just replaced a few facts with similar enough things.changed the train into a luxury cruise liner. Usually even with all the similarities of thrillers these days, I can find enough originality in the story to feel the author didn't *try* to follow the same formula. It also felt like a not as good carbon copy of The Girl on the Train. I found I was expected to suspend my disbelief even more in The Woman in Cabin 10 and I wasn't having any of it. I enjoyed Ruth Ware's debut a lot more than this one.

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware