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Into the Water

A Novel

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Into the Water

By: Paula Hawkins
Narrated by: Laura Aikman, Daniel Weyman, Imogen Church, Rachel Bavidge, Sophie Aldred, Laura Aikman
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The author of the number-one New York Times best seller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.

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 15-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.

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 listen 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.

Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath.

©2017 Paula Hawkins (P)2017 Penguin Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Supernatural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Paranormal Scary

Critic reviews

“A captivating contemporary whodunit...suspense churns and the plot keeps you guessing.” (People Magazine)

“Highly suspenseful...all these intrigues are teased out with impressive skill by Ms. Hawkins, who tells a complex narrative...in a chronicle whose final pages yield startling revelations." (The Wall Street Journal)

"[A] succulent new mystery.... Hawkins, influenced by Hitchcock, has a cinematic eye and an ear for eerie, evocative language.... So do dive in. The payoff is a socko ending. And a noirish beach read that might make you think twice about dipping a toe in those dark, chilly waters.” (USA Today)

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This book has too many characters to keep straight. I spent half of the time trying to remember how one character tied into the next. I feel like the author tried too hard to keep you on your toes, and therefore there are too many underdeveloped and purposefully vague (and therefore unnecessary) characters.

This book tries too hard

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This is a must read!!! There are so many things going on in this book, it keeps you guessing. I screamed out at the end of the book. I can’t believe it, I honestly had no idea how it would end. If I had noticed how long I had left before the book would end, maybe, just maybe I would have guessed the ending. Get lost in the stories and enjoy!

So many twists and then the last sentence....OMG!

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so many characters but overall good listen. good read also. length was good and accents were good too.

so many characters but overall good listen

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Enjoyed the story. Performers were very good. I would recommend to a friend to read.

Good story

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I love an audible book that has multiple people speaking for major characters in the book.
Very surprised till the very end.

Water .. Water

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I found it difficult to keep up with all of the characters. The story is told from several different points of view so that makes it even more difficult to keep up with everyone. The ending was a bit unsatisfying as well. After so many theories when you finally find out what happens your just left with that information and no aftermath. The performances in this audio book were excellent though!

Too many characters and unsatisfying ending

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I bought this audiobook after purchasing and thoroughly enjoying The Girl on the Train by the same author. I thoroughly enjoyed The Girl on the Train. It was a concise, well thought out storyline, it had appropriate twists, I can never figure out "who done it" before the end of the book anyway. The readers who read The Girl on the Train did an amazing job--I enjoyed it so much so I purchased Into The Water having read some reviews that were somewhat disappointing, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway.
I found this book to be somewhat interesting. I came away feeling like I wish there had been more of a supernatural angle. I also felt that there were too many points of view, and though each reader was a separate person, I still had some confusion trying to figure out whose point of view I was listening to. Also by 3/4 of the way through the book I didn't care what happened anymore. So I was disappointed in that. I did finish the book to the end and the ending was good, but getting there was somewhat tedious. I understand that it's hard to follow up a book that is a big hit with something successful, and I will continue to purchase and read Paula Hawkins in the future.

Not compelling enough.

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this was an interesting story. was hard to follow ar times because of the number of characters

loved that the end was a surprise

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A lot of the reviews say this book was too confusing because of all the different narrators. I like the author, and Imogen Church is my favorite female narrator on audible, so I decided to listen and find out for myself. It's true. There are far too many narrators. The story was interesting enough to keep me listening to the full book. When I hate a book, I immediately stop wasting my time. So the fact that I finished it says something.

But the multiple narration was frustrating and I can't say I understand the point of it. Why didn't the author just use 2 or 3 points of view? There were so many characters to keep up with and the narration was mixed with first person and third person. It was just too complicated. At the 3 and 5 hour marks I would still be thinking, "Wait... who is this narrator again? What's their relationship to the story?" Really frustrating and not a good thing at all.

I like Paula Hawkins and I'll still listen to future books by her. Not every novel can be a winner.

The other reviewers make good points...

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Story started out great but slowed overtime and became a little predictable. Performances were wonderful though!

Great performance. Decent story

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