{"id":1835,"date":"2025-02-03T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2025-02-03T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:05:00","slug":"the-blue-hour-by-paula-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=1835","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Blue Hour<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/authors\/paula-hawkins\/\">Paula Hawkins<\/a> <br \/>on October 29, 2024 <br \/><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-literary\/\">Fiction \/ Literary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-thrillers-suspense\/\">Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Suspense<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-women\/\">Fiction \/ Women<\/a> <br \/><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 320 <br \/><strong>Format:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/formats\/hardcover\/\">Hardcover<\/a> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blue-Hour-Novel-Paula-Hawkins-ebook\/dp\/B0CTYB2221\/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4YCKzkDpPJeEdxOgdwEkZ8JxkAdyJ3vzx6sU4Tnkp6uet4cKaJLU5kqRAQj8jqnF8SOaVhSSq341GjOO1mM2iF4w0PZm39Cw0OixJerAQcTMMEgQsWXZvdIoGWZuUNys_iimeaJ6MEfTbgsueulq2xasnDpvGa7RGiCfi4tU3lkQJ4HOoyFHQatS3Nisv6CDsqlwggaib_rFt4Eo2WWZLmCuiC7m0CJtyxSpR3ebfIU.DGQUOfISVN-kEwhu3krb_dwwYd0R4sZzxQprES8Plko&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+blue+hour&amp;qid=1736202969&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy on Amazon<\/a> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/207252770-the-blue-hour?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=FBEtRHic1e&amp;rank=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>\u201cI answer to no one, only the tide.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Welcome to Eris: An island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.<br \/>Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago.<br \/>Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.<br \/>But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.<br \/>And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . .<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This was another miss for Hawkins. The setting of Eris should have worked, but it didn\u2019t, probably because it just felt like one big room after a while. I didn\u2019t get a Gothic setting at all from the book and or any vibes from Shirley Jackson\u2019s works at all. The ending was pretty bad. I just didn\u2019t believe it and it leaves so many issues that I just went bah. I think Hawkins was going for too many \u201ctwists\u201d but at least with this book, you could see them coming. I just didn\u2019t think that Hawkins did a great enough job of selling us on the friendship between Vanessa and Grace. And there\u2019s a whole spoiler I won\u2019t get into now, but once that was revealed I went, okay I definitely don\u2019t buy it now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ubb-final-rating\"><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/the-blue-hour-by-paula-hawkins\/\">The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/\">Book Nook Buzz<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins on October 29, 2024 Genres: Fiction \/ Literary, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Suspense, Fiction \/ Women Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads \u201cI answer to no one, only the tide.\u201d Welcome to Eris: An island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}