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Book Beginnings is a book meme hosted by Rose City Reader where participants share the first sentence (or so) of the book, along with initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice, and the rules are quite simple: Grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader. Find any non-spoilery sentence(s) and post.
This week’s book: Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Title: Into the WaterAuthor: Paula Hawkins
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Publication Date: May 2, 2017
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.
Thoughts
I am just a few chapters in and I am already finding myself having a hard time putting this one down. It is told in multiple perspectives and it is so interesting how the details about the victim’s life are perceived by different characters. I love a good thriller and I have high hopes for this one!
Book Beginning
When they came to tell me, I was angry. Relieved first, because when two police officers turn up on your doorstep just as you’re looking for your train ticket, about to run out of the door to work, you fear the worst.
Friday 56
She was standing at the stove stirring something, and when she turned round and saw me there, she jumped. But it wasn’t like how usually someone gives you a fright and then you laugh; the fear stayed in her face.
About Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train, which was made into a major motion picture.
About The Candid Cover
Olivia ❀ Canadian YA book blogger, Starbucks lover, & professional bibliophile.
I’m reading this one now, too! It has definitely been hard to put down!
Right?! I can’t wait to get back to it. 🙂
This sounds good. I still haven’t read Girl On the Train but have heard so much about it. This week I have an urban fantasy novel – Blood Gamble by Melissa F. Olson. Happy reading!
Love your snippets! I am hesitant to pick this up because I wasn’t a huge fan of The Girl on the Train…but this one sounds like I may like it better.
The storyline and concept are definitely different. I am finding the writing style to be quite similar to GOTT, though. 🙂
Okay….I don’t think I hated her writing style…just the characters.
I recently read and enjoyed this book. Hope you enjoy it, too. Here’s mine: “EMMA IN THE NIGHT”
I am so glad to hear that you loved it! 🙂
Got this one nearing the top of my list. Everything about out screams read me!
My Friday 56 from Refuge For Masterminds
Right?! It is one of those books that just begs to be read. I hope that you enjoy it! 🙂
The cover draws me in, the story draws me in… and I am in the mood for a juicy thriller.
I have been on a bit of a thriller kick lately and this one is definitely juicy! 🙂
I’m so bloody intrigued that I’m adding this one to my list! Happy weekend!
I hope that you love it! 🙂
I am dying to read this! So cross with my self for trying to be sensible and curb my book buying fix when I left it behind in the shop 😀
I’ve heard great things about this book. I hope you enjoy reading it! 🙂
Been years, but this is a neat book. Draws me in.