ebats 's review for:

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
4.0

nice followup. hawkins is good at atmosphere--i could see these characters and this town. it did take a bit of time to keep everyone straight...everyone was named so generically and i might have skipped a few of the POVs (mark didnt need any chapters, probably could have left out nickie or the boy and told their stuff through others) or named a few people wacky. jules was so weak as a person that her fierce determination not to talk to her sister for decades was out of character and stupid and sad. but outside of jules, i thought the cast was interesting and i really didn't know what was going on. i liked that it turned out to be two mysteries..and two things that mattered. i feel like many times if there's two loosely connected stories like this one of them ends up being a red herring for no purpose but that, but these worked well together. even if this had sucked i would still be following hawkins because i loved girl on a train, but she's keeping it going.