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The woman in cabin 10 about6/26/2023 On the first night of the cruise, they’re both. The two of them dated in their twenties, and Ben has lingering feelings for Lo. Others relied on modern-day tech for a running commentary outside Lo's viewpoint, with emails, news reports, and excerpts from online blogs to fill in things from the view of other main characters. Ben is a fellow passenger on the Aurora, a travel journalist with a hipster beard who used to work at Velocity with Lo and now does investigative journalism at the Times. Some aspects of the story reminded me of a famous Hitchcock film won't say which one as it'd be quite a spoiler. (She's not that great at dealing with interpersonal relationships, and I really wanted to point her to the Captain Awkward column at times, but advice columns might not be that helpful once you've actually been kidnapped. Her tendency to drink to blackout point bothered me - there are mitigating factors, but she's certainly old enough to know better than to let herself get into that situation - and some of her other decisions were a bit iffy (even allowing for her increasing stress and PTSD), but she's gutsy and resourceful, good things when trying to escape a very intricate and diabolical web. It started out in very suspenseful fashion, with an all-too-believable - and terrifying - home-invasion, which narrator Lo experiences just as she's due to leave on a high-end assignment on a cruise ship. I found this softcover in this new-to-me Little Free Library in Townsend MA while dropping off some books of my own, and nabbed it for another release copy.
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