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    Into the Water
    Audiobook (abridged)7 hours

    Into the Water

    Written by Paula Hawkins

    Narrated by Rachel Bavidge, Sophie Aldred, Daniel Weyman and

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    About this audiobook

    The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.

    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.


    Cast of Narrators:
    Rachel Bavidge, as third person narrator/Nel's voice
    Sophie Aldred, as Jules
    Daniel Weyman, as Sean & Josh
    Imogen Church, as Erin Morgan
    Laura Aikman, as Lena
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 2, 2017
    ISBN9780525500582
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    Reviews for Into the Water

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    • 5/5
      Another hit! Great read filled with twists and turns.
    • 5/5
      Not going to lie, I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS NOVEL. I literally gasped at the end of it. I just couldn't believe the ending. Shocking to say the least. You learn to love and hate characters as well as being shocked at the whole outcome of the novel. From beginning to end I couldn't put it down. Just when you think you had it all figured out....HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO ANY THRILLER LOVER OUT THERE!!!!!!!!
    • 4/5
      Find my reviews here.
      Once I got into the flow, I was totally swept up by this story and the murky lives of the (many) characters involved.

      I am reviewing Into the Water by Paula Hawkins, the lady who brought us the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller The Girl on the Train. Here's what I thought:

      ^^ Jules' sister, Nel, jumped into a scary place they call The Drowning Pool, which is something Jules knows her sister would never have done. Now Nel is dead. What follows is a look inside the muddy depths of the lives of other characters, each wielding their own secrets and lies. But if Nel didn't jump, is there a murderer among them? And what about Nel's own account via her unpublished memoir; can any of it be true?

      ^^ After struggling with the way this was written (not only did each chapter have a different person's point of view, but it seemed each point of view swapped from 1st person for main characters, to 3rd person for seemingly secondary characters), I soon got into the flow of reading and raced through, thoroughly enjoying the ride.

      ^^ Despite a slow start struggling to get my head around the changes of POV I soon picked up the pace and raced through Into the Water. I can still happily recommend this book as the author has a great writing style, which really pulls me under into her characters' world as if I'm part of their secrets and the stories they tell.

      ^^ I found the ending really emotional, and was not disappointed with this author's second book. After Hawkins' success with Girl on the Train, she had a lot to live up to. For me this did not disappoint. With so many twists and turns it makes for an urgent, intelligent read with lots of hidden depth rising to the surface.

      Overall: Paula Hawkins has written yet another powerful, satisfying read where her characters not only have something to tell, but have pasts they'd rather you not find out. Once I got into the flow, I was totally swept up by this story. The author has a fascinating way of showing how she understands human behaviour. Not all lies come from hatred. We're all human, and humans have a bad habit of making a mess of things, especially when the push comes to the shove and the survival instinct kicks in. 4.5 stars over on Amazon.

      Thank you to the publisher for providing me with a review copy to read.
    • 4/5
      The vast array of narrators made this book a bit hard to get into, however after about 40 pages I was able to figure out the rhythm and flow of the story. This is a book about unreliable narrators, they are all viewing things thru their personal history and prejudices. It all makes for a ton of misunderstandings and false accusations. Grudges are held, secrets are kept and in the meantime, women are dying.
      Hawkins does a great job of showing how each character's reality is colored by their own personal issues and beliefs. The results become more heightened when relationships and lives are on the line!
      The pace of the novel is very quick and your sympathies will switch as you read. Well done!
    • 1/5
      Thrillers and mysteries are fundamentally stupid. We look past that stupidity and enjoy those books because they manage to tell a fun tale in a short span of time. At least the good ones do. This book is not one of them. The Girl on The Train at least had interesting characters and a sense of irony about its inherently silly premise.
    • 1/5
      I wasn’t a huge fan of The Girl on the Train, but wanted to give the author another shot. This book had a strong premise - a body of water near a small town where numerous girls and women had drowned over the years. Most died under mysterious circumstances, so the whole town was pretty distrusting of each other. Good idea, right? But there were way too many characters telling the story, and it was hard to keep them all straight. The overall resolution wasn’t really anything fascinating either, so there’s nothing compelling about this book unless you just really want to give it a read.
    • 3/5
      I was a little disappointed in this book. I LOVED Girl on the Train so much I finished it in 24 hours. The story didn't capture me the way Hawkin's other plot did. I found the multiple perspectives to be confusing. There were so many points of view that I think she could've done without a few of them and still maintained what she was trying to present. The chapters are very short, which usually means I read faster but for some reason I would end up finishing a chapter or two and closing the book for a while. I don't think I've read a book in so many sittings in a long time. For me, the plot was a little too slow to keep me reading for hours and hours. Don't get me wrong, I liked the book but I had really high expectations and didn't get into the story as much as I would have liked.
    • 2/5
      This was a long, painful sludge through a muddled, character-heavy story that took way too long to get to its point. The interesting parts get absolutely buried.
    • 3/5
      Although I enjoyed the mystery, there were a few characters and storylines that went no where. Not nearly as good as Girl on a Train, but okay. There are quite a few names to keep straight although many of them don't matter.
    • 3/5
      This novel has many characters telling the story from many points of view, and this tends to make the mystery more disjointed than suspenseful. The drowning pool has a long and sorrowful history. So-called witches were thrown into it only to drown. Lately, it seems to draw suicide-minded women. And perhaps a murderer or two. This tale is an interesting one, but it is so convoluted and contrived, with so very many narrators, that it is easy to lose track of the truth as it is doled out. But if you like twisty tales with many narrators, some unreliable, then you may like this story.
    • 3/5
      Having enjoyed The Girl on the Train I had been looking forward to this next novel from Paula Hawkins.However, although there were aspects of the story-telling that I appreciated and found engaging (the focus on the relationships and motivations of the characters, the clarity of their individual voices, the background theme of legend and superstition and the atmospheric descriptions of the scenery and the river), on balance I found it something of a disappointment. I thought that there were times when it lacked focus and cohesion and so became rather rambling. Also, although I enjoyed the author's characterisations, I think the fact that there were so many somehow got in the way of engaging pacing, plot development and any consistent maintenance of psychological tension.
    • 3/5
      This novel is about a small town in England that has experienced many deaths by drowning in a local river. The characters that have died all seem to be women and the first character is drowned as a witch. There are current deaths that have not been ruled suicide, accident or murder. That is what the novel is taking us through.There are many characters in this novel, but I found that really smart. We really come to understand each character and the interplay involved in trying to find out whether the recent deaths were committed or not. There are many underlying currents within this story. Sisters hating each other, affairs taking place (or having took place), teenage angst, etc. There were a few really unanswered questions in the end, but I thought that this was well written and it certainly kept me reading.
    • 4/5
      The Drowning Pool it was called. It had taken many a life in the town of Beckford, but the most recent death was too suspicious to overlook for DI Erin Morgan. I give this 3.5 stars. Though it was very different from Girl on the Train, I thought the story dragged a little and the cast of characters was a bit large, making it a tad confusing, especially since I listened to the audiobook.
    • 2/5
      Into the Water is Paula Hawkins' second novel. I gave it a try as I liked her first one, The Girl on the Train. To come out right up front: I did not enjoy reading this novel. Before I get to the reasons, however, let me briefly sum up what it is about. Nel Abbott is found dead in the so-called Drowning Pool, a body of water that got its name from supposedly claiming many drowning victims. Her sister, Julia, who has not been on good terms with Nel, travels to the cottage where her sister lived in order to find out what happened. There she meets Lena, Nel's teenage daughter, the local detective and his family, the Townsends, and other locals who have their opinion about the drowning pool and her sister. The story takes the reader on a journey towards the truth about Nel Abbott's death, which was in fact, not a suicide.The story is narrated from different perspectives as each chapter is related from the point of view of one of the characters. Obviously, a lot is narrated from Julia's point of view. While I usually like this narrative technique, I struggled with it in this novel. At the beginning it made it quite hard to figure out who all the characters are and how they are related to each other. Therefore, I did not get a really good start into the story. As I tend not to give up I kept going, but the remainder of the novel did not really change my opinion. Although the chapters were short, the novel did not really pick up pace at any point and I found myself dragging on and on without really being interested in what was going to happen or to be revealed next. Throughout the entirety of the novel, the plot did not catch me and I found the characters not relatable enough so as to follow the plot for the characters' sake. This is the reason why I could not really enjoy reading Into the Water and was left quite disappointed. Unfortunately, the ending could also not contribute to changing my opinion. On the whole, a perfect example of 'not my cup of tea'. 2 stars.
    • 4/5
      Enjoy the way Paula Hawkins writes but this one I had to keep a scorecard on the characters in the beginning. Women drown in a "water hole" starting with a supposed witch back in the day. The latest is a woman who is writing a book about the drowning water hole. Her sister and her daughter are not sure if she killed herself or if something else happened. There are so many suspects. But in the end, when you find out whether she committed suicide or was killed is a real twist.
    • 2/5
      I liked Girl on the Train. This, I just couldn't focus on, or remember who any of the people were, or care.
    • 3/5
      I gave "The Girl on the Train" 4 stars and this one is not so good, so I give three and a half stars. Too many characters and too shallow writing. "The Girl on the train" was original but this one lack originality and excitement.
    • 2/5
      Disappointing after Girl on the Train. I know some people dislike comparisons to an author's initial breakout hit. However, let's face it, most copies of Into the Water were sold based on readers' expectations of a repeat thriller. I had to force myself to finish this one.The plot is slow, the prose is nothing special, and characters are only vaguely interesting. The only redeeming quality is revealing a major (but predictable) plot twist on the last page.
    • 2/5
      Characters were not well formed and not very interesting. The plot was too convoluted without engaging the reader. An OK plot twist but the book was too ordinary.
    • 4/5
      Once I got the characters straightened out by writing myself notes about them, this book was easier to read. Julia has avoided her older sister for years, but has to return to her childhood home after learning that Nel has drowned. leaving a motherless teen-aged daughter. There are family secrets in every family in the village--evidently no one talked to anyone else in her family for generations. Thank goodness the village "witch" is around to straighten everyone out and solve the mysteries.
    • 4/5
      Paula Hawkins' follow up to Girl on the Train has come under a lot of criticism and the inevitable cries of 'it's not as good as Girl on the Train'. I found Girl on the Train to be a flawed mix of thrilling tension and unlikeable characters. In the end, the successful suspense of it overrode the negatives and overall I enjoyed it.I feel pretty much the same about Into the Water. In the first half at times I found the prose a bit staid and amateurish, with Hawkins' relatives newness to novel writing - despite the success of her first book - being strikingly apparent. Many people who have given it poor reviews have done so on the basis of not enjoying the number of different characters in the story, each of whom have chapters written from their viewpoint. That did take a bit of concentration to begin with (there were 12+ different narration views), but once I got into the flow it wasn't a problem, and if I did forget who the current narrator was it usually became very clear early on in their chapter.Into the Water starts with the discovery of Nel Abbott's body in the so-called Drowning Pool, a part of the river in a Northern English town where a number of women have lost their lives over several hundred years. The novel is a classic whodunnit, with a number of people in the town having potential motives (including Nel herself as a suicide). It took a while to build up a reader connection with all the characters, but once it became clearer who everyone was and how or why they might have been connected to Nel's death, the book started to take pace, and Hawkins maintained the suspense well right to the end.In many ways I preferred this to Girl on the Train. Hawkins' is never going to be my favourite novelist, but after a slow start I started to get pulled into the plot, and I actually enjoyed the different narration perspectives. I suspect Hawkins' took a lot of inspiration from the many gritty British detective series that have been on TV over the last couple of decades, creating characters that were similarly brusque, cold and shifty. That's not my preferred genre of TV, and to be fair this is not my preferred genre of novel, but despite that I found this a much more enjoyable read than expected.4 stars - if you can overlook the flaws and have patience with the number of characters, this is a thriller to keep the pages turning at a decent rate.
    • 3/5
      I found this to be confusing and a slow read. The plot had great potential, but the many viewpoints and narrators made it unnecessarily disjointed.
    • 4/5
      There was a whole host of characters to get to grips with in this 2nd thriller by Paula Hawkins, with each a narrator - frequently unreliable. For a whole the chopping between characters and time was distracting. However, as we go along the bits of jigsaw start to fit together - or so you think! Right to the end, there are twists and turns in this story of murder, revenge, love and infidelity. Great holiday read even if plot is a bit over cooked.
    • 3/5
      This deserved 2.5 stars. Not nearly as good as Girl on the Train. Just meh...
    • 4/5
      Into the Water was a decent enough read, but more so at the beginning than the end. For the first half of the book, I couldn't put it down, the suspense was building, and I just had to know! Unfortunately, the majority of the truth was disclosed way too soon, and it didn't turn out at all to be the twisted ending that I love in a mystery.
    • 4/5
      Gotta say Paula Hawkins writing has improved a great deal since Girl on the Train, I enjoyed this book from start to finish and couldn't read it fast enough. I definitely got some Sharp Objects vibes throughout the book, but it is different enough to make it unique. The story is about a two deaths in a river in a town that is known for suicides and murders occurring at this river throughout it's history. The recent deaths and investigation are explored through multiple people involved in their lives and shows how interconnected the two deaths are with each other. It was confusing at first to keep track of who was who and their sections told from their point of view and it caused me to have to flip back several times, but eventually you get used to it and into the story where it flows better.
    • 5/5
      I loved this! Kept thinking I knew what happened, then I'd figure out what REALLY happened, and THEN I'd be like, "Okay, NOW I've got it!" Didn't know 'til the very end. LOVED it!!!
    • 4/5
      Very suspenseful with various characters that all have some part in the death of the single mother and a teenager. The misunderstanding of the two sisters seem a bit weak and contrive. Overall, it is a good story.
    • 4/5
      Gotta say Paula Hawkins writing has improved a great deal since Girl on the Train, I enjoyed this book from start to finish and couldn't read it fast enough. I definitely got some Sharp Objects vibes throughout the book, but it is different enough to make it unique. The story is about a two deaths in a river in a town that is known for suicides and murders occurring at this river throughout it's history. The recent deaths and investigation are explored through multiple people involved in their lives and shows how interconnected the two deaths are with each other. It was confusing at first to keep track of who was who and their sections told from their point of view and it caused me to have to flip back several times, but eventually you get used to it and into the story where it flows better.
    • 4/5
      I love her style of writing. The way she weaves all the characters together, allowing you to know what each person is thinking and feeling. I enjoyed this book, even though I figured out the ending of this one, only to be fooled, then proven right in the end. No, it was not a Girl on a Train, but it would be hard to duplicate the success of that story. I look forward to reading more from Paula Hawkins.