The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins
on October 29, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / Women
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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“I answer to no one, only the tide.”
Welcome to Eris: An island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago.
Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.
But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.
And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . .
This was another miss for Hawkins. The setting of Eris should have worked, but it didn’t, probably because it just felt like one big room after a while. I didn’t get a Gothic setting at all from the book and or any vibes from Shirley Jackson’s works at all. The ending was pretty bad. I just didn’t believe it and it leaves so many issues that I just went bah. I think Hawkins was going for too many “twists” but at least with this book, you could see them coming. I just didn’t think that Hawkins did a great enough job of selling us on the friendship between Vanessa and Grace. And there’s a whole spoiler I won’t get into now, but once that was revealed I went, okay I definitely don’t buy it now.
I gave this novel a three star rating. I liked that Hawkins tried a different direction on this, but ultimately the book dragged to the point I didn’t care what was happening to anyone. I guessed and was right, but ended up not really liking the characters we do get to see in this one.
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