A beautifully written, suspenseful ride that hits all the Ruth Ware notes—strong atmosphere, moral ambiguity, and clever plotting. Perfect if you enjoyed The Woman in Cabin 10 and want more of Lo’s world. But if you're not a sequel person, this one might feel a bit more decorative than necessary.

Ruth Ware is a go to author for me and I really enjoyed The Woman in Cabin 10 so obviously I was pumped to read the follow up.

To be frank, this book didn’t need to be made. It had none of the suspense of the first one and was honestly so slow for a thriller. I ended up guessing quite a few of the twists and turns and even those weren’t very exciting. If anything, this book was just mildly stressful.

What saved the book for me was that the writing was good. Sometimes in bad thrillers, the writing is awful but this one it wasn’t the writing but the plot that brought it down.

I will still look forward to Ruth Ware’s next book but I’d recommend skipping this one!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc.

Love Ruth Ware, and I often immediately read everything she publishes. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting with Lo. She's a great character, even with a 10-year hiatus. In this follow-up to The Woman in Cabin 10, Lo travels to a new resort in Switzerland to restart her career. She will be profiling a reclusive billionaire, but once she arrives, she reconnects with Carrie...who adds a whole new depth to this story. Lo's career resurrection doesn't go as smoothly as she hopes. We are along for the many twists and turns as Lo pieces together another thrilling mystery. Some of the events I could predict, and others caught me by complete surprise, which I think is what makes Ruth Ware such a great writer. I did have a bit of a slow start as I couldn't remember The Woman in Cabin 10 as well as I thought I did, so some references did slip past me. That said, it did not diminish my enjoyment of this book.

Thank you NetGalley and Ruth Ware for this ARC!

What a treat, I love Ruth Ware books and most definitely is an auto buy author every time. "Lo" is one of my favorite main characters and her inner dialog through out this story was wonderful and had me laughing at times. "Carrie" what a piece of work that woman is, but also I couldn't help but enjoy her character as well, sometimes you a need villain/not villain to bring out a feeling. The twists and turns I couldn't always predict which is what I enjoyed most about this book. Sometimes I feel like I know what's going to happen before it does and this time I was lead astray a few times. The ending was not what I expected, "Carrie" oh that woman!

Ruth Ware fans will rejoice for this suspense/mystery.

Oh this was a fun one! I couldn’t pull myself away from this and devoured this book over the course of a weekend . I adore Ruth Ware’s writing and she is always a 5 star read for me! Her books always keep me on the edge of my seat.

Thanks to NetGalley and also the publisher for the advance copy of this. I highly recommend this book to other readers.

Lo Blacklock #2

A sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10 (It was my first by this author)!

Yes, of course, I had to read this one!

The synopsis promises a thrilling cat and mouse chase, but I have to say I wasn't very thrilled (sadly).

Lo has taken a career break and has been raising her boys. She wants to get back in the game though and has accepted an invitation to the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel. She is a travel writer and thought it would be a good opportunity. A woman from her past that she may owe her life too shows up and things get way out of hand.

I felt the overall story was slow on suspense and pacing. It did hold my interest enough to keep reading, but there wasn't really enough "page-turning" happenings that I was expecting from this author!

Let me say that I had no idea this was as sequel, but I didn't have any trouble picking it up. Imagine getting invited by a reclusive and out of sight billionaire Marcus Leidmann, to attend the press opening for a luxurious hotel, owned by said millionaire. This is exactly what happens when Lo accepts the invitation, not knowing what deadly game she has stepped into.

All she wants to do is snag the interview and get back home to her two loving boys and devoted husband. Fate, as it turns out, has other ideas in mind. A phone call late at night summons Lo to the suite of Marcus, but what she finds there ensnares her in a deadly plot to take everyone's life that is involved.

I do have to say that until the end I wasn't sure exactly who had started this deadly game. If you like twists and turns, this book will take you on a roller coaster ride of emotions and thrills.

I’m a big Ruth Ware fan and I really liked this book. One of my favorite things she does is set her books in such interesting places and this one was not different. I loved how is started a the hotel and just spread out. I was also so excited to see characters from person books pop up.

Because she didn’t make enough bad choices in The Woman in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock is back to make some more in The Woman in Suite 11. It is 10 years since she barely survived the Aurora and she is now married with. 2 young sons and living in New York. All that is missing is her work, which has been on the back burner since becoming a mother and then Covid happened. When she receives an invitation in the mail to the press opening of a new luxury hotel in Switzerland she believes it could be the jump start she needs.

I don’t want to say too much more about the plot and everyone knows that it couldn’t possibly be that easy. Of course things go wrong and familiar faces reappear in her life. It is wild ride once it gets going. I read the first book when it first came out so I was a little vague on the details, but it all came back to me as I was reading this one, I did hope that Lo might have learnt something from the boat but it wouldn’t as good a story if she had would it.

RuthWare is a favourite thriller writer for me and I was not disappointed in this new book. Her twists are always interesting and plots are fun and quick read. Thanks so much to Gallery Books for my advanced copy of this book to read. Publishes on July 8th.

Ruth Ware is an auto-read author for me. I love her mysteries very much. I had a hard time getting into this one and remember almost nothing from Woman in Cabin 10 so I recommend reading them back to back. I could have done without the first four chapters— no offense to kids but I’m left with a bad taste in my mouth after how many times Freya was mentioned in The Lying Game (which felt like every other sentence). I’m sure Woman in Suite 11 will find its audience!

This one kept me engaged, which is more than I can say for most of the thrillers that I’ve read recently.

I loved the prequel to this book and fully expected to love this. I didn't. First of all. I didn't really remember much of the first book, so the characters had no history for me (the author did give a little summary of some of the past events) and they were never developed in a way that made me care. . I never really felt engaged with the book. The plot was weak and the ending easy to guess. The premise was Lo and several other people in journalism were invited to a pre-opening of a luxury Swiss hotel. Lo finds herself surrounded by several other people who were on the boat with her in the Woman in Cabin 10. Lo is called to Suite 11 of the hotel and finds Carrie, who was also on the boat, Carrie said she has been held a virtual prisoner by the wealthy, elderly owner of the hotel and asks Lo to help her escape.

There was what i consider a big leap at the end. SPOILER ALERT. One bad-ish person escaped. Another bad person, who the first had been working with and is one of the people the first escaped from, came to Lo's mother's house to try to find a phone full of incriminating data that they think was given to Lo by the first person. If the first person disappeared, how does the second know that they: 1. don't have the phone with them and 2. didn't hide it at the house they disappeared from? That bothered me It helped tie the whole book up, but it was too big of a leap for me and dropped the book from 4 stars to 3.

Lo Blacklock, the heroine from “The Woman in Cabin 10”, is back in Ruth Ware’s “The Woman in Suite 11”, a sequel that has Lo running away from yet another evil rich man. Not as much suspense, a little more unrealistic, and quite predictable, this is a sequel that didn’t need to be written.

The time is ten years after the Aurora fiasco from the last book. Lo Blacklock is happily married with two young boys, living in the United States, and finally over the trauma from the cruise (or so she thinks). But she’s bored, her career didn’t end up how she thought, she’s looking to get back into the game. Out of the blue, an offer comes up to attend the grand opening of a new hotel in Switzerland, a playground for the rich and famous built by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann. The invite is a bit odd, since Lo is not high on the list of influential travel writers anymore, but she needs a break and doesn’t question things too closely.

So off to Switzerland goes Lo. Her first surprise is that many of the invited guests just happen to be the same crowd as were on the Aurora ten years ago, including her ex-boyfriend. The next surprise is even more shocking: a figure from her past who is in trouble and needs Lo’s help to escape. Since Lo is in this person’s debt, she agrees to help facilitate a quick run to England, using Lo’s passport. But the rich and powerful are not easily thwarted. As Marcus and his crew pursue Lo to another grand hotel in England, the stakes are raised significantly. And when Marcus is found murdered, the police have a ready suspect in Lo. Can our heroine find out the truth while avoiding both the police and the real killer?

Although the premise and the blurbs make this sound like a grand chase across Europe, there’s very little chasing, almost all of the action takes place in one or the other of the grand hotels. And the action is really driven by poor decisions, it is hard to believe that Lo would make so many stupid mistakes, so many bad moves, and tell so many lies. Other characters are barely drawn, her past crewmates just drift in and out with no real purpose, and her husband is a bit too understanding. The unreliability aspect that made Lo an interesting narrator in the first book is missing in this volume, and it seems that motherhood hasn’t affected her decision-making at all, other than whining about missing her kids, over and over, right before she makes another bad decision that threatens her freedom once again. There are some interesting twists, but the ending seems rather anti-climactic. Overall an ok read, but nowhere near as good as the first.

I requested and received a free advanced electronic copy from Gallery Books - Gallery/Scout Press via NetGalley. Thank you!

Lo Blacklock is back. Ten years after her terrifying ordeal aboard the cruise ship Aurora, Lo is ready to re-enter the world travel-writing, this time heading to a new luxury Swiss hotel. But when people from her past turn up at the invite-only gathering, she sense something is up. And when the billionaire owner of the hotel summons her for a late night meeting, things take a sharp turn.


So at first I thought this was a detective series, as in you can drop in anywhere, but this is definitely a sequel - reading the first book is a must to understanding the plot. (I hadn't read the first one, so I checked it our of the library and it was fresh in my mind; readers who are trying to think back a decade may struggle a bit). This one suffers a bit from idiot plot - the only way certain things make sense is if everyone involved acts like an idiot, and at least two of the major twists are telegraphed far ahead. Similar to the first book, it takes a while to get going, but once it does, the plot speeds ahead and Lo is far more likable in this chapter (I found her exceedingly annoying in the first!) At the end, I thought Ware had written herself into a corner, but she did do a nice job of resolving the loose threads and tying everything up in a bow.

I started this book with some trepidation - I never thought "The Woman in Cabin 10" needed a sequel.. How wrong I was! Like all Ruth Ware books this one grabbed me from the first page and the pace never let up, and the twists kept me guessing. Although I had read "The Woman in Cabin 10" ten years ago, I never felt lost. There was enough information here to remind me of the initial story and the original characters started to feel familiar a few chapters into the book. You don't need to have read the first book to dive into this one, but I would recommend it just to avoid spoilers. For those new to Ruth Ware, I strongly recommend all of her books but especially "In a Dark, Dark Wood" and "The Death of Mrs. Westaway." Highly recommended

Thanks to NetGalley and Gallery/Scout Press for an advanced reader copy.

Enjoyed this book. Not as fast paced as her other books but definitely an intriguing story. Continues the story several year after The Woman in Cabin 10 ends. Much has happened and all the details are filled in. This is what makes me love Ruth Ware books. She tells the whole story without making the reader feel like they have missed something. Talented author!

Thanks to NetGalley and Gallery Books for allowing me to read this ebook for an honest review.

Ruth Ware never disappoints! I am always on the edge of my seat. This book did not let me down! It will also make for a great, suspenseful summer read!

I am a huge fan of Ruth Ware, so I was excited to read her new title. Overconfidently, I thought I would not need to refresh my memory about what happened in the A Woman in Cabin 10. While it wasn't strictly necessary to have read the first book (or remember it at all), it really would have been helpful.
I think other Ruth Ware fans will enjoy this sequel! She sets this mystery in another lush vacation destination, which is always fun. However, the characters are what I enjoyed most. I really like the main character. There are also several characters that readers really cannot be sure if they can trust or not.
The story is well plotted. I flew through this book. Can't wait to hand this one to customers!

This isn’t just luxury travel—it’s run-for-your-life tourism, with secrets around every corner.

📚 3 Reasons to Read
Luxury setting – From a lavish Swiss chateau to thrilling escapes across Europe, the setting drips with glamour and danger in equal measure.


Untrustworthy characters – No one’s telling the full truth, and Lo’s stuck between instinct and illusion the whole way through.


High-stakes suspense – This isn’t just a mystery—it’s a stylish game of survival, where every decision could be your last.


This is the second book following Lo, the first being The Woman in Cabin 10. I gotta be honest, I don’t remember a whole lot about that book except it takes place on a cruise ship. I really liked how fast paced and enjoyable this book was. And it goes so swiftly that when you are done, you kind of forget that there are some details that are never explained. I had a lot more questions but if this goes the way I think it might, this will continue and perhaps we will get more answers. Overall, it was fun and twisty, but it left me slightly wanting more.

This is the second book in the Lo Blacklock series. I enjoyed this one and thought it was a good read and would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the first in this series. My one complaint about the book is the believability. I feel that Lo made a lot of choices that most women would not make. If you can get past that, it is a good book.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.