I like all the interlocking stories and histories going on within this town and how every character has some reason to seem guilty.ģ) It's not as suspenseful as The Girl on the Train. The moving between so many characters, each with their own stories and secrets, reminded me of the TV show Broadchurch, which I actually really enjoyed. However, in a weird way I didn't hate it.
Seeing as - on top of this - most of the characters were pretty despicable, I didn't spend much of my reading time liking anyone. On the one hand, this allows for a distant style of narration that never makes it easy to warm to any of the characters. There's Louise Whittaker, whose daughter died, and also her son, Josh. There's the teacher from Lena's school - Mark Henderson - and the local "psychic", Nickie Sage. There is Lena, daughter of the deceased Nel, and Nel's sister Jules there's both of the detectives - Sean Townsend and Erin Morgan - as well as Sean's wife, Helen, and his father, Patrick. I know many readers will be turned off by the many, many points of view circulating in this book. I'm torn as to whether I think this is a negative or not. While both books contain themes of memory and the limitations on its reliability, the mysteries feel very different.Ģ) The cast of characters is big. Into the Water doesn't focus in-depth on any character, but rather moves between the perspectives of many members of a British town. That ad that keeps flashing up saying "If you liked The Girl on the Train, you'll love Into the Water" is bullshit. I think the only way I can make sense of it is to break it down into points.ġ) This book is very different from The Girl on the Train.
I'm going straight down the middle with a 3-star rating but, in truth, my thoughts are all over with this book.
With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present.īeware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from-a place to which she vowed she'd never return. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate.
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.Ī single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town.
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