If there are two people doing something wrong and one of them is a girl, it’s got to be her fault, right?”Īlso right in the beginning, there is an index listing the people of the town and their relationships, which made things much simpler. Their depth is telegraphed by the way they brood over their failings while staring into the dark waters, and they seem to be constantly exclaiming, You don’t. Second is the issue of blaming women when Lena is frustrated with Jules saying – “ I don’t understand people like you, who always choose to blame the woman. Its tone is uniformly lugubrious and maudlin, and Hawkins’ characters seldom rise to the level of two dimensions, let alone three. Hawkins’ storyline grabs her readers’ attention describing the history of a woman drowning in a body of water known as The Drowning Pool. I didn’t think they did it in your living room and asked afterward if you had a good time.” Paula Hawkins is still writing like Alfred Hitchcock in her new book INTO THE WATER.

For example, the author defines rape as saying –“I thought rape was something a bad man did to you, a man who jumped at you in an alleyway, and a man who held a knife to your throat. The back and forth in time was a little confusing, to be honest.īut I liked the way some issues have been dealt with. It could’ve been deeper – in terms of the characters. I thought we got to the mystery in a very roundabout way, beating about the bush. I wasn’t madly turning the pages, as is printed in many reviews by popular magazines. Paula Hawkins’s books Average rating: 3.9 3,232,046 ratings 160,664 reviews 28 distinct works Similar authors More books by Paula Hawkins When it comes to whiling away the dog days of summer, nothing is better than a good book. Whereas The Girl on the Train had a tight narrative structure, alternating between three characters, Into the Water employs more than a dozen narrators, including flashbacks to women who.

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