![]() ![]() Nel Abbot is one such woman, and it’s her apparent suicide in the Drowning Pool that stirs up the community’s troubled history and kicks off the narrative of this novel. With Into the Water, Hawkins has crafted another captivating, attention-grabbing story populated by unreliable narrators blindly sharing their own questionable stories, so it’s a shame that it will invariably be compared to the debut that preceded it – and inevitably end up coming up short.įrom the very first page, where the scene depicts the chilling death of a girl named Libby, Into The Water isn’t shy about launching its readers into the deep end, setting up the idea of Beckford, the Drowning Pool and its “troublesome women” from the get go. ![]() Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water has the unfortunate luck of being the follow-up to one of the best-selling books of the last decade, so a lot of people will be reading it with a very critical eye wondering if The Girl on the Train was just a fluke. ![]()
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