As a big fan of The Girl on the Train I was eager to read Into the Water- however it seems that The Girl on the Train was a tough act to follow and Hawkins’ second novel has failed to recapture the thrill that I loved about The Girl on the Train. Both, perhaps, added to the universal fear of drowning, make this a novel that will literally keep you guessing (and shivering) until the very last chapter.Into the Water is the second novel by best selling author Paula Hawkins, best know for her 2015 work The Girl on the Train, which was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt. Indeed, it's difficult to tell which is more heart-pounding: the eerie ghost-filled past that haunts Beckford, or the creepy residents who seem to know a little bit too much about one another. Slowly, though (ever-so-slowly), author Paula Hawkins pulls readers up through the depths, character by clue, until we're grounded and panting from the adrenaline rush that is this novel.
Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.”įor the first many pages, reading “Into the Water” is a lot like looking up toward the surface from the bottom of a lake: everything's murky and slow and you really can't quite make out who or what you're seeing. She could hear Nel's voice, and the words Nel wrote in her manuscript: “Beckford is not a suicide spot. She felt Nel's presence in the house, in the town, by the river. Nickie Sage, the “psychic” in town, said she couldn't reach Nel clearly, but Jules could. They'd never really been close anyhow, and that estrangement complicated things: as Lena's next of kin, Jules was faced with raising a 15-year-old she barely knew, a girl who seemed to hate her.Īnd so Jules began talking to the ghost of her sister. She hardly knew Nel anymore, not since they were kids, not since Nel betrayed Jules in the most horrible way. Jules Abbott hadn't spoken to her sister in years.
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