book club thursday ~ reading challenge



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My name is Cyn and each week we (me and my BFF Ann from  Romancing the Readers) blog all about books and book related topics on something we call Book Club Thursday(BCT).  Learn more about me and BCT here

Our feature today is:

 These weeks are when we read/review a book that fits a theme from our "challenge" list: 



READING CHALLENGES

Read a book published before 2010
Read a book published in the month (not year) you were born
Read a book set in your home state
Read a book with a cover you don’t like
Read a book you once gave up on
Read a book with a clever title
Read a new to you author
Start a new series
Read a hardcover
Read a trade
Read a “small-town” romance
Read a book with a favorite trope
Read a historical set anywhere but the USA
Read a book you keep meaning to read
Read a book that taught you something
Read a Trifecta book (sounds, cover, title must all be same theme)


Anger Management (a book that PISSED you off at some point)
Anything Goes (read ANYTHING you want)
Just Because (you read this “just because”…state the reason)
Bird- Beast – Fish (atypical animals are part of the story)
Land-Sea-Sky (features bodies of water, mountains, planes etc)
Double Dip (can re- do any challenge)
An Apple a Day (medical main character(s))
Recommend By (say who / what )
I Tried, But… (one you couldn’t finish and why)
Second Chances (an author you are giving a “second” chance to)
Hot for Teacher (main character(s)is a teacher)
Read a historical set in the USA
The Great Outdoors (main character(s) work outdoors)
AKA (author with a pseudonym)
BOO! ( book with a ghost)
Survivors (books with hard subject matter)


* completed challenges 



I picked: Land-Sea-Sky








In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, 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. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. 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 dark and terrifying 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, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10—one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned.
 


First off, I LOVE Ruth Ware.  

I'm super excited that she is planning on coming to the USA for a book tour for her upcoming The Death of Mrs Westaway (I plan on going) but I'm off topic.  

First if you have never read Ms Ware, you should. Yes, she is sort of like a modern Agatha Christie (whom she had already been compared too).  

Ms Ware has three books as of now: (in order of publication) In a Dark Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game.  

I read TLG first, then  IADDW, and then the book I am reviewing today, which is my favorite of the three. 

I've really gotten into books with anti-heroines/female leads with a touch (or more) of villianess in them.  

Lo isn't perfect.  Can we, do we, should we trust her? Believe her? Root for her? Well, I did root for her! She is real and flawed and that's a huge part of her appeal.

This novel primarily takes place on the water on board a luxury cruise trip - the perfect setting for this mystery. 

Another thing I love about Ms Ware's writing is what I'll call the
Thelma and Louise ending (maybe you know movie?). Open ended...maybe...or maybe not? I bit of mystery there in and of itself. Huge fan of that!

I highly recommend this novel. 

 







 





















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