Today it’s my turn on the blog tour for The Woman In Suite 11. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

Paradise comes at a price . . .

The stunning mountain views. The beautiful shore of Lake Geneva. The terrified woman held in the suite belonging to the hotel’s millionaire owner.

Lo Blacklock’s all-expenses paid trip to a luxury Swiss chateau should have been the ideal return to work. But as her past catches up with her, the millionaire’s mistress demanding that Lo help her escape, and a body turning up in the room next door, forces Lo to ask how far would she go to help someone she’s not even sure she can trust… 
The gripping follow-up to multi-million bestselling author Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10 – coming soon to Netflix, starring Keira Knightley.

Review:

Full disclosure: I didn’t realise The Woman In Suite 11 was a sequel until I was around a quarter of the way into the novel. There is clearly a back story to the events in this novel, but Ruth Ware does a good job of explaining what’s happened before so the gaps in my knowledge didn’t stop me from understanding and enjoying it.

The prologue of The Woman In Suite 11 shows what a talented writer Ruth Ware is. I could picture the scene very clearly and I felt really claustrophobic as I was reading. I wanted to know how the narrator had found herself in this situation and it set the story up well for what was to come. It is such an engaging novel and I read the whole book in just over one day!

The narrator and protagonist of The Woman In Suite 11 is Laura “Lo” Blacklock. It is clear from the beginning that she is vulnerable and has some difficulties with her mental health, but I never felt that she was unreliable and I felt sympathy towards her. I found it more difficult to warm to Carrie, but I appreciate that the characters are three dimensional and have many facets to them, and this made me connect with them.

The story builds quite gradually, but there is always an atmosphere which kept the story compelling. As the novel gathers pace towards the end, Ruth Ware takes us in several different directions and I honestly couldn’t guess where the story was going! The last section, in particular, is very tense and I didn’t want to stop reading!

The Woman In Suite 11 is available from Amazon.

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