Into the Water

Hawkins, Paula

Book - 2017

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A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. 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. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. 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.

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ISBN: 9780385689632
9780735211209

Characteristics: 388 pages ;,24 cm.

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retiring_rep Apr 06, 2018

Yes there are many characters but I thought the plot was better developed than Girl on a Train. I liked reading this book and would recommend it for a quick holiday read.

Lucindafifi Feb 23, 2018

As many other commenters have mentioned, too many characters, it didn't really grasp me like Girl on a Train. A week on from reading and I don't even remember what happened. A bit disappointing.

sunnyfeline Feb 18, 2018

I had a hard time getting through this book because there were so many characters (11?). Author Paula Hawkins had a great story line but it just got lost among the multiple characters, the confusion of jumping around with different characters and timelines, the story dragging, etc. I think if it was not because of her bestseller book ("The Girl on the Train"), this wouldn't have gotten so much attention from her readers. Very disappointing--this could've been a really good book but it fell short.

secretarybird Feb 14, 2018

I struggled to read this book and did in fact give up half way through. There were too many characters which made it confusing and convoluted

Jessi52 Feb 03, 2018

I understand some of the comments, there are a lot of characters, but they do all make sense in the end. enjoyed it, however, not as good as Girl on the Train

abbi_g Jan 14, 2018

I have to give credit when it is due and Paul Hawkins definitely knows how to pen a good thriller. Although I didn't quite enjoy Into The Water as much as I enjoyed The Girl On The Train (mostly because the former was written from the perspective of way too many characters), I still think that it's a novel worth reading. Paula Hawkins is a really good storyteller and she has definitely made a fan out of me. I'm looking forward to reading future books by her.

rose_mountain Jan 13, 2018

Too many characters. Difficult to follow the story-line as a character may disappear and reappear again much later and you have forgotten who they are!

kengcampbell Jan 13, 2018

This was a decent 'who done it'. It has an interesting writing style, where the narrative moves from the perspectives of each of the characters. I found it difficult to get into as I needed to go back to identify the previous story for each character. I should have made a list of the main characters with a short bio.

Sammy101617 Jan 12, 2018

0 stars - awful - couldn't get past page 81, had to give up. The story kept going back and forth to different characters, and I had to keep going to the beginning to try and figure out who was who. By that time I forgot the story.....

mahsirg Jan 08, 2018

By the time I had finished this dark, depressing read I was ready to jump into the Drowning Pool myself. I agree with other reviewers that the ending was REALLY unsatisfactory. This book was a major disappointment after The Girl on the Train (which resulted in a good movie as well). Sometimes authors only have one bestseller in them!