Genre: Psychological Thriller
Publisher: Penguin Publishing, 2017
Pages: 400
Rating: Do Not Recommend
Synopsis: 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.
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.
Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.
Review: The print book has a hundred holds on it at the library, so I settled for the audio.
As seems to be the case more often than not with this genre, it started slow. And, it felt like the author was trying too hard with all the references to water. It didn't seem thrilling or psychologically disturbing. In fact, it seemed all too probable in today's messed up world.
I also guessed the ending, long before the ending arrived.Not a good thing.
Bottom line, I didn't love it.
Other Paula Hawkins books:
The Girl on the Train
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