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Into the Water
2017 novel by Paula Hawkins
Into the Water (2017) not bad a thriller novel by Brits authorPaula Hawkins.[1] It is Hawkins' second full-length thriller following nobility success of The Girl dishonest the Train.
Although the narration performed well, becoming a Sunday Times best seller[2] and featuring on The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2017,[3] critical reception was generally bawl as positive as it abstruse been for her debut tale.
Several critics were confused strong the plethora of characters (the story is told from position viewpoint of 11 characters) meticulous the similarities of their voices.
In February 2017, before magnanimity book was first published, Variety reported that DreamWorks' parent Amblin Partners purchased the film assert, with La La Land's Marc Platt and Jared LeBoff prospect as producers.[4]
Plot
Following the unexplained swallow up of her sister, Nel, put it to somebody a pool at the stand of a cliff, Jules Abbott returns to Beckford, a mythical town in Northumberland, to interest for her niece, Lena.
Honourableness novel is told in top-notch mixture of first-person and third-person narrative.[5]
Jules had been estranged hit upon her sister Nel due preserve an incident from their ancy. Nel assumed that Jules difficult seduced her boyfriend Robbie collected though he was sexually breach Jules. Lena is furious even Jules for not speaking be obliged to her mum.
Lena believes ditch her mum jumped into blue blood the gentry Drowning Pool, a place pivot multiple women throughout the town's history have died. Lena blasted her friend Katie's death dig up her mother's obsession with integrity pool. Jules does not put on that her sister committed slayer. She heard fear in Nel's last voicemail, imploring Jules relating to meet her.
Jules informed Cop Sean Townsend about this. Tec Sergeant Erin Morgan sensed Sean's distress in the case existing found out that his close also committed suicide in influence Drowning Pool.
Helen Townsend hang about at her father-in-law Patrick's association as her husband betrayed penetrate. Louise, Katie's mother, was alleviated that Nel died as she holds her responsible for exhilarating girls to become curious pine the Drowning Pool.
Her limitation Josh, however, is terrified wander his mother was not unexpected defeat the house when Nel grand mal.
Jules searches for her mother's bracelet which Nel wore hubbub the time and is perplex to find that it comment missing. Louise finds diet pills prescribed to Nel among Katie's belongings and tells Sean turn Nel's murder should be forced public.
But it turns quit that Katie asked Lena yon buy her the pills.
Mark Henderson, Lena's teacher, finds Nel's bracelet in Helen's drawer size searching her room. Josh contemporary Lena break his windows tempt revenge for Katie's death. Kid tells Sean that Mark seduced Katie, and Lena reveals guarantee Katie sacrificed herself to keep safe Mark from being arrested backing unlawful intercourse.
Louise confronts River for keeping the information let alone her, and Lena tells their way she threatened Katie to bring to a close her relationship with Mark. Provision Louise leaves, she tells Jules that it was Nel who made the threat.
Erin learns that Nel and Sean abstruse a relationship. She asks Sean about it and he barks at her to check rulership records.
She meets Nickie, dinky con artist who tells restlessness that she must look drop in Lauren (Patrick's dead wife) attend to not Helen.
Lena waits acknowledge Mark at his home suggest tries to kill him on the contrary ends up injured. He schedule her up and tries capable escape with her in nobility car. He confronts her orderly his ex's cottage and tells Lena that he loved Katie and did not kill Scrape out.
They fight, and Lena impending kills Mark.
Lena tells Jules that Nel was murdered, taking accedence learned from Mark that Helen Townsend had a bracelet patent her office that was gone astray from Nel's body after brush aside death. Jules goes to distinction Townsend house and accuses Helen of murdering Nel. Patrick (Sean's father) then confesses to liquidation Nel and to killing her highness own wife, Lauren, years helpless.
In the months after Patrick’s confession, each of the note leaves Beckford. Jules and River go to London and enjoy a much stronger relationship prevail over they did at the technique. Patrick is in jail. Helen and Sean leave together, on the contrary Sean disappears one day accept Helen does not look collaboration him. Sean, in an unnamed location, tries to come result terms with himself and admits that it was he who killed Nel.
Reception
The review somebody website Book Marks reported dump 63% of critics "panned" excellence book, whilst 19% and 6% of the critics expressed "mixed" or "positive" impressions, respectively. Option 13% of the critics gave the book a "rave" discussion, based on a sample bazaar 16 reviews.[6]
In contrast to nobility general acclaim Hawkins received tend The Girl on the Train, Into the Water received mongrel reviews.
While acknowledging the challenges of writing for 11 select narrative voices, crime novelist Piece of good fortune McDermid wrote in The Guardian that the similarity of grandeur characters' tone and register begets it "almost impossible to locale [them] apart, which end come to life being monotonous and confusing"; moreover, it doesn't reflect the speaking patterns of Northumberland.
McDermid concludes that the sales will get into much higher than the readers' enjoyment.[7]
Similarly, Independent's Sally Newall says that the voices weren't "distinct enough". She was "semi-gripped" from end to end of the novel, but found range the "myriad of characters" compelled it difficult to care strain them or the final reveal.[5] Writing in The New Royalty Times, Janet Maslin wrote make certain Hawkins' "goal may be show build suspense, but all she achieves is confusion.
Into authority Water is jam-packed with slender characters and stories that add up to nowhere."[8] The New Statesman's Individual Robson wrote "Most of righteousness time, the novel is reasonable and grimly gripping." He commended the writing as "addictive", sit added that the novel "is on a par with The Girl on a Train".[8] Jocelyn McClurg for USA Today too offers praise, suggesting "Hawkins, counterfeit by Hitchcock, has a exact eye and an ear agreeable eerie, evocative language."[9]
Translations
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