{"id":122967,"date":"2025-09-05T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/122967\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:35:20","slug":"i-cant-believe-this-thriller-was-never-a-reeses-book-club-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/122967\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can’t Believe This Thriller Was Never a Reese’s Book Club Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can deny it as much as I want, but summer will be drawing to a close very soon. So, I used the end of the season as the perfect opportunity to squeeze in one final breezy summer read<\/a>. My selection? Beloved murder mystery\/thriller The Woman in Cabin 10<\/a> by Ruth Ware.<\/p>\n

Fans of Ware<\/a> and her signature first-person, damaged-protagonist style will know that this is not a new novel. It came out back in 2016. But it is the ideal candidate for one of my favorite book recommendation sources, Reese\u2019s Book Club<\/a>. And yet, when I scrolled back through the history of Reese Witherspoon selections<\/a>, I was surprised to see that the novel had never made the list. (Ware\u2019s The Lying Game did make it back in 2017.)<\/p>\n

Great for fans of The Woman in the Window<\/a>, The Girl on the Train<\/a>, Gone Girl<\/a> (or, frankly, any of the novels that inspired the Kristen Bell<\/a> parody series The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window<\/a>), Ware\u2019s novel follows Lo Blacklock, a journalist who is assigned to cover the launch of a new luxury yacht, the Aurora. Things take a turn when she thinks she witnesses the aftermath of a murder. The victim? A woman staying next door in cabin 10. The only problem? There is no record of this woman ever being a passenger on the ship.<\/p>\n

The book is twisty and fun, with plenty of surprises plot-wise. Lo falls into many of the genre\u2019s tropes, but once you get past her panic attacks and overwhelming anxiety, she becomes a character you can truly root for as she tries to unravel the mystery. And the mystery is a complicated one. I won\u2019t give any spoilers, but I definitely didn\u2019t see the major twist coming (it hits about two-thirds of the way through).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I can deny it as much as I want, but summer will be drawing to a close very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-122967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}