THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 - Emma Shepherd
The first time I saw this book was in Chapters, a large book store, on a special shelf dedicated to highly recommended and largely bought books. After reading the back and seeing the glowing reviews, I decided to try and read it. It started off with a robbery at the protagonist, Lo Blacklock’s house. It seemed to have been particularly traumatising for her, and not a thing that anyone should have to go through. However, I couldn’t help but feel like part of the stress she went through she brought upon herself. The night before she had gotten quite drunk, and passed out. If she hadn’t gotten so drunk, she may not have been robbed, or had such a hard time when she was robbed. This was fine, as everyone makes mistakes, but what I did not like was that she never learned, and drank every night so that she could sleep. This resulted in her going a bit delusional and insane, and even when the real story started, when she boarded the luxury cruise ship she would be spending a week on in order to write an article for her job at a travel writing company, she wasn’t able to fully function like a normal, sane human. Although I liked the idea of the story, I was extremely fed up with the main character’s personality, her lack of sleep making her always overwrought and just generally showing all the symptoms of someone very sleep deprived. Her aggravating personality, although it was the main reason why all of the events in the story unfolded, was just too much for me to enjoy the story, until something drastic enough happened that she was forced to give up all of the comforts of normal life and she began to change. Only in the last quarter of the book was I able to appreciate it when the main characters' problems finally stopped bleeding into the way she acted so much.
The first time I saw this book was in Chapters, a large book store, on a special shelf dedicated to highly recommended and largely bought books. After reading the back and seeing the glowing reviews, I decided to try and read it. It started off with a robbery at the protagonist, Lo Blacklock’s house. It seemed to have been particularly traumatising for her, and not a thing that anyone should have to go through. However, I couldn’t help but feel like part of the stress she went through she brought upon herself. The night before she had gotten quite drunk, and passed out. If she hadn’t gotten so drunk, she may not have been robbed, or had such a hard time when she was robbed. This was fine, as everyone makes mistakes, but what I did not like was that she never learned, and drank every night so that she could sleep. This resulted in her going a bit delusional and insane, and even when the real story started, when she boarded the luxury cruise ship she would be spending a week on in order to write an article for her job at a travel writing company, she wasn’t able to fully function like a normal, sane human. Although I liked the idea of the story, I was extremely fed up with the main character’s personality, her lack of sleep making her always overwrought and just generally showing all the symptoms of someone very sleep deprived. Her aggravating personality, although it was the main reason why all of the events in the story unfolded, was just too much for me to enjoy the story, until something drastic enough happened that she was forced to give up all of the comforts of normal life and she began to change. Only in the last quarter of the book was I able to appreciate it when the main characters' problems finally stopped bleeding into the way she acted so much.