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pris_asagiri 's review for:
Into the Water
by Paula Hawkins
I enjoyed the middle 1/3 of this book immensely. It reminded me a lot of the tv series, Broadchurch. A death had taken place and the perspective of was it murder and why is given by various towns members made it very intriguing. But then the story just veers off course and you get submerged (pun intended) into this sea of stories of other drownings and other potential murders and the who and the why get drowned out (pun intended). The ending is a hot mess of, I suppose, red herrings but the obvious answer was obvious from the beginning so just disappointing and anticlimactic. And the first 1/3 of the book is a boring preamble of meet the town.
I think this had a lot of potential to be a really interesting mystery, but lack of editing and the obvious ending made for a disappointing finish. It also is really making me tired of this “Girl On a Train” genre. Can we just write a proper mystery and stop with the trendy multiple view points that aren’t mysterious but tedious and self-serving. Or, at the very least, create some characters that a reader can get invested in. By the end of this book, I honestly didn’t care who did what or went where. I was literally watching the time count down so I could mark this finished. But I can finally get this off my tbr pile so that is something to celebrate.
It’s not a terrible book. And if you’re into the genre, you may find it interesting. The multiple narrators was weird because they did multiple characters so it got a bit confusing. But the audiobook was infinitely easier than reading it.
I think this had a lot of potential to be a really interesting mystery, but lack of editing and the obvious ending made for a disappointing finish. It also is really making me tired of this “Girl On a Train” genre. Can we just write a proper mystery and stop with the trendy multiple view points that aren’t mysterious but tedious and self-serving. Or, at the very least, create some characters that a reader can get invested in. By the end of this book, I honestly didn’t care who did what or went where. I was literally watching the time count down so I could mark this finished. But I can finally get this off my tbr pile so that is something to celebrate.
It’s not a terrible book. And if you’re into the genre, you may find it interesting. The multiple narrators was weird because they did multiple characters so it got a bit confusing. But the audiobook was infinitely easier than reading it.