I am probably one of few that really didn't enjoy the woman in Cabin 10. Therefore, I wasn't overly thrilled with this one either. I should have made the connection before I read it. It's not bad...I think I will try to listen to it closer once the audio book is out. I have loved other books by Ruth though, so will continue to read her. Just not my favorite.

3.5 stars

Ruth Ware is an auto-read author for me, but her last few books have been more misses than hits for me, so I have ventured into Ware’s books a bit more skeptical nowadays. That being said, The Woman in Cabin 10 is my favorite novel of hers and it got me into wanting to start a bookstagram, so when I saw that she was writing a sequel, I knew that I needed to read it!

THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11 reintroduces Lo Blacklock, now a married mother of two, who has transitioned from her magazine job to freelance journalism. Despite her contented family life, Lo misses the thrill of her past adventures. When presented with an opportunity to attend the grand opening of an exclusive Swiss hotel owned by the elusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann, she seizes it, especially since her former magazine requests an interview with the reclusive owner. From the onset of her journey, mysterious events begin to unfold, setting the stage for another suspenseful narrative.

I enjoyed revisiting Lo Blacklock and despite not rereading The Woman in Cabin 10, I was able to quickly get back into the swing of things. I really enjoyed some of the returning characters (one specifically was the winner for me, but I’m not giving out spoilers). However, the story was very slow moving and took about 100 pages to really get into the action. I miss the fast-paced suspense from Ruth Ware’s older novels, but I did enjoy the return into Lo’s world and the luxury hotel vibes. I don’t expect another installment in this world, but no matter what Ruth Ware writes next, I will read it! STARS: 3.5, PUB: 7/8

AUTHOR RANKINGS:
1. The Woman in Cabin 10
2. The Death of Mrs. Westaway
3. The Turn of the Key
4. One Perfect Couple
5. In a Dark, Dark Wood
6. The IT Girl
7. The Woman in Suite 11
8. Zero Days
9. One by One
10. The Lying Game

Thanks to Netgalley and Gallery/Scout Press for the pre-release copy of The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware. Below you'll find my honest review.

I really love Ruth Ware's novel, but her most famous isn't my most favorite. I liked The Woman in Cabin 10, and it was the first Ruth Ware book that I read. After reading more though, it just wasn't as good, to me at least, as some of her others. So when I saw that we were revisiting Lo Blacklock in a sequel, I was a little apprehensive.

I'll be the first to admit it: my trepidation was unfounded. In one of her best books, Ware has redeemed Lo Blacklock for me and made me really love her and hope for more (which I doubt we will get, as Ware isn't a fan of writing sequels and prefers standalone writing). This one was plotted well, the mystery was great (even if certain parts of the solution felt a little obvious, the getting there was fun), and Lo was developed even more into a much more deep and likeable character.

Highly recommended for mystery fans, Ware fans, and fans of book 1.

Lo Blackwood is ready to reestablish her writing career. She receives and invitation to the opening of a luxury hotel owned by a reclusive billionaire.. This is the answer to her prayers. She goes to Lake Geneva in the hope of interviewing the owner, but that is proving difficult. She finally gets an invitation to interview him and is asked to come to his room. When she arrives she finds his mistress and a bizarre story. Can she trust this woman? Can she save this woman. Read and find out. You won't be disappointed.

Ruth Ware does it again!! I didn’t think The Woman in Cabin 10 could ever be topped but this one becomes very close!! Great read, I give this book a very easy 5*s!

Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Suite 11 attempts to rekindle the suspense of The Woman in Cabin 10, but the sequel feels more like a layover than a destination. Lo Blacklock returns, now juggling motherhood and a stalled journalism career, and is thrust into another high-stakes mystery involving a reclusive billionaire and a supposed mistress in distress. While the European chase adds a cinematic flair, the plot leans heavily on familiar tropes and lacks the fresh tension that made the original a standout. Ware’s signature twists are present but predictable, making this installment a serviceable yet unremarkable addition to her bibliography.

Thank you to netgalley for giving me the chance to read the woman in suite eleven. I dislike reading too much in a review; I’d rather form my own opinion and allow other readers the same opportunity. I can easily say that the twist added to the first twist is one of my favorite writing styles Ruth Ware has. Happy reading….especially to the readers that are trying a Ruth Ware title for the first time! You’re in for a treat.

Ruth Ware is a must read author for me, and this long awaited sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10 intrigued me from the start. I think I might have enjoyed it slightly more if I hadn't read Cabin 10 so many years ago -- I did have trouble remembering some plot points. But that said, The Woman in Suite 11 still delivers in twisty, suspenseful Ruth Ware fashion. A great summer thriller.

Thank you Gallery Books and NetGalley for my copy!

I liked this book well enough, and it kept me interested, but it didn't do it for me like the Woman in Cabin 10. I definitely would give this author another go. Especially with how much I enjoyed The Woman in Cabin 10.

The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware is an engaging summer thriller and a follow-up to The Woman in Cabin 10. The story revisits Lo Blacklock ten years later who is now married with children she adores. Despite her happy life, something feels missing, so when she’s invited to the grand opening of a luxury hotel, she sees it as an opportunity for a career boost and hopes to —secure an exclusive with the elusive millionaire Marcus Leidmann.

The plot takes its time building momentum, but once the twists start unfolding, it becomes completely gripping. The cat and mouse story is filled with unexpected turns, making it difficult to discuss without spoiling the surprises. Some familiar faces from the first book make an appearance, though not all felt essential to the story. Still, their inclusion adds a layer of continuity for returning readers.

Overall, this is a quick, easy read with a satisfying payoff that makes the slower start worthwhile. For those who enjoy psychological thrillers that keep them guessing, The Woman in Suite 11 delivers a solid and entertaining ride.

Thank you Gallery Books for the advanced reader copy. This is my honest review.

I was excited about this one as I enjoyed her first book but haven’t seem to enjoy any others after. Maybe I’m not as into her writing as I used to be? Otherwise it was an okay quick read.

Another adventure for Lo Blacklock that was highly anticipated, at least in my opinion. I absolutely loved The Woman in Cabin 10 and was pleasantly surprised that another novel was written to continue to saga. This book takes place 10 years after the first, and reintroduces many main characters. I loved being able to see what everyone had been up to over the last decade, as well as find out what happened to Carrie, since it was kind of left up in the air. I highly recommend this book if you enjoyed The Woman in Cabin 10. It did a fantastic job of tying up any loose ends, as well as sent Lo on yet another wild goose chase to figure out who done it!

I have enjoyed all of Ruth's previous titles, but this one just does not hit home. Maybe it's because it's a sequel? I just found myself hurrying through and not enjoying it as usual.
Thanks NetGalley for the chance to read this one.

I requested this because I’m pretty much always game for a Ruth Ware book. I enjoyed The Woman in Cabin 10, but I don’t know that it needed a sequel? I also found Lo kind of annoying in the first book, and although she’s less so here (she more or less has her life together at this point), this just wasn’t a story I was itching to return to.

I confess to remembering squat about the first book, other than the fact that parts of it strained credulity. I reread a library copy, and I’m glad I did, because this is truly one of those sequels that does require you to have read (and remember) the first book. (often mystery sequels tend to be set in the same universe, but knowledge of the previous outings isn’t necessarily required - Lee Goldberg’s Eve Ronin series in particular comes to mind) In the first book, Lo gets to go on this fabulous yacht cruise as a travel writing assignment - she borrows some mascara from the titular woman in cabin 10 before the first dinner…and then she hears a scream later that night and swears she saw a body fall overboard. But everyone claims cabin 10 is empty. Lo keeps digging, in spite of the fact that she’s not a detective, has a bit of a drinking problem, and keeps getting warned to drop it or else. In the end, she’s held captive in the belly of the ship for a bit before she manages to escape in a sequence that truly would have killed a person (there’s jumping overboard, there’s walking all night through the wilderness without shoes). The woman she saw the first night is the mistress of the rich dude in charge (I forget his name and it’s not important). The dead body she saw going overboard was that dude’s WIFE. Although everyone met the real wife on the very first night, the rest of the trip, the mistress is posing as her. Lo gets too close to figuring out the truth, so Carrie kidnaps her - this never made particular sense to me the first time around, because I wasn’t sure what Carrie’s endgame was. Like…she knows too much for you to let her go, so why are you keeping her alive at all? In the first book’s epilogue, it’s implied that Carrie survived the ordeal and sent Lo a few thousand pounds for her trouble.

Ahem. So when this book opens, it’s several years later. Lo has married Judah, her boyfriend from the first book, and they’ve moved to America with their two young kids. Lo wrote a fairly successful memoir about her experience from the first book, but thanks to both motherhood and the pandemic, she’s been out of the writing game for a bit (Judah seemingly stumbled into a job at the New York Times, of all places). So when she gets a press invite to the opening of a fancy hotel in Switzerland, Lo jumps at the chance. She calls all of her contacts about writing a piece about the experience, but travel writing isn’t quite as lucrative as it used to be. BUT, the hotel is owned by Marcus Leidmann, a reclusive billionaire. If Lo can score a sit down interview with him, she could publish a decent profile (he’s famously tightlipped around the press).

But once Lo gets to the hotel, there are a lot of familiar faces around - so many people who happened to be on the Aurora with her. And when she again hears a scream in the middle of the night, she worries history may be repeating itself.

Without giving too much away, I didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the first book. It’s a quick read, but I wasn’t terribly excited to come back to it, or terribly motivated to finish it (one of those books you just keep coming back to in the absence of anything else exciting). Similar to last time, I found Lo really frustrating. She’s allegedly an adult, but she still reads much younger to me. And while I hate when a character’s entire personality is “mom”...girl, you have kids! Enjoy your free vacation, go see your mother, and get the hell out of Europe. Stop trying to be a detective.
Again, I wasn’t particularly enamoured with these characters the first time around, so I don’t think this outing was strictly necessary. And as others have already pointed out, it isn’t really doing anything new either. Yes, we’re on land and there are detectives, but for the most part this is a very similar story, just set in the Alps instead of on a boat.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started this book, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I ended up finishing the book in just a few sittings and really enjoyed the story and characters.

I maintain that no thriller merits a sequel unless its a foray into Christie or Conan-Doyle style character installments. Unfortunately, Lauren "Lo" Blacklock is no Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes and lacks the investigative prowess (and, frankly, the survival instincts) to sustain an elongated narrative. Part of what I love about Ruth Ware's canon is the self-contained nature of her stories. Each book is an opportunity to take a similar character and similar conceit and tweak things just enough to differentiate the narratives from one another. The Woman and Suite 11 not only fails to feel different, damningly, it fails to even feel necessary. Without giving spoilers, much of the plot relies on the 1) the reappearance of a certain character from The Woman in Cabin 10 and 2) Lo Blacklock's astonishingly poor decision making. In the tradition of slasher movie protagonists from times of yore, Lo just cannot seem to make logical decisions in the face of obvious warning flags. It is hard to feel invested in a conflict when you have to put the book down every few chapters to roll your eyes at the ceiling. Lo's transition to motherhood is the only unique plot thread, and this too follows narrative paths already well-trodden in Ware's own "The It Girl". Overall, the novel seems more concerned with making playful references to the first book than advancing a unique plot line. A disappointment from one of the few thriller authors I've consistently enjoyed!

I read The Woman in Cabin 10 when it came out in 2016 and have since read all of Ruth Ware’s domestic thrillers. I don’t normally read many domestic thrillers as a sub-genre of mysteries, but I do find Ware’s writing to be suspenseful, with a touch of fun and adventure.
Now, as a sequel to that very popular book, Ware has written The Woman in Suite 11 – with the same main character, Lo Blacklock, a travel writer, who has been given a free week on a cruise. Lo in Cabin 10 was a 30-something, rather naïve woman who was too nice for her own good and ended up in a nightmare at sea. I fell for kind Lo and her ability to solve a good old fashion whodunit.
Now, 10 years later, Lo is still naïve, unfortunately, and comes back, still as a travel writer, to a plush hotel in Switzerland, hoping to interview the billionaire owner. At the initial dinner Lo is surprised to run into at least three people from that fateful cruise 10 years ago! And soon Lo is rushing across Europe on her way to England, only to find herself involved in yet another murder, this time as the suspect.
The reader does not have to have read The Woman in Cabin 10 to appreciate this novel; however, I did find it helpful to know the characters who pop up again in Suite 11. My main concern with the novel is that Lo, even after 10 years and having children to care for, has yet in her 40s to mature into the concept of self-care. I found myself more than once, rolling my eyes at Lo for her dangerous actions and unnecessary concern for others over herself and her family.
Truly, I loved The Woman in Cabin 10. But that same woman in Suite 11 in Switzerland? I really did not care for her. And it is hard to stay connected in a domestic thriller without liking the main character. Also, unfortunately, a cruise has the added fun setting of creating a locked-room-mystery, while a run across Europe from hotel to hotel is bizarre when all the same people show up again and again. I DID enjoy The Woman in Suite 11, but it is hard not to compare the two books.
Netflix has announced the upcoming film adaptation of The Woman in Cabin 10, staring actress Keira Knightley. THAT should be great fun – and that is how I am going to remember Lo Blacklock, travel writer. A woman who was tolerated at 30 for being naïve, but a character who should probably not have been given a sequel unless she had matured.
My rating: 3 of 5
This ARC title was provided by Netgalley.com at no cost, and I am providing an unbiased review. The Woman in Suite 11 will be published on July 19, 2025.

I had my doubts about a ""sequel" to The Woman in Suite 10... but friends, Ruth Ware absolutely killed it!

Lo Blacklock is BACK.... she's in her 40s, married, has children, and is attempting to reignite her career. When she's invited to a grand opening of a hotel in Switzerland, she decides to go. But when she arrives, she's surprised to find many people in her past, including a certain woman who's kind of a frenemy... and who needs her help. Lo is drawn deeper into the (now dangerous) mystery, all while simply trying to get home to her family. This was a fabulous book!

I enjoyed this story . This story follows the return of Lo Blacklock ten years after the horror of The Woman in Cabin 10. I loved reading The Woman in Cabin 10 and really any Ruth Ware books! Lo is trying to get an interview with Marcus Leidmann owner of a luxury hotel. Things start getting weird and had some twists I was not expecting. Overall a good read!

4 stars

This is one of those books where you should read the first one in the series before this! Lo is back after ten years, and for those readers who were frustrated at drunk unreliable Lo: fear not! You get horrible decision making Lo instead. She has settled down, married and had kids, and wouldn't know a trap if it was written on the front door. And I LOVE it. I really do (and that might be an unpopular opinion), but I was screaming at this character the whole time. Ware has this ability in a thriller to make me invested in the characters good or bad, and have me needing to turn the pages to find out what happens next. To me, that makes it a solid thriller. Also a good life lesson to stay petty and not forgive, because what do you MEAN you are going to help Carrie?! Shove that mascara in her eye and be done with her. If Tiggers always bounce back let her bounce somewhere the eff else. While I predicted most things, I really enjoyed revisiting these characters and yelling at them through the pages. It helps me feel like a competent adult. No, I didn't get the laundry done, but you know what else I didn't do? Let a criminal who tried to kill me ten years ago use my passport.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for an advanced copy to form opinions from.