Author Elizabeth Gilbert talks about the difficulty of writing a another novel after the success of Eat, Pray, Love in this TED Talk .) When I starting hearing about Into the Water, I thought the plot sounded extremely interesting. After Hawkins’ debut was such a sensation, how could people not be hyped for her second novel? (Although, can we talk about how HARD it must be to follow up such a successful first novel? I can’t even imagine. When the announcement for Into the Water came out, people were understandably very excited. So I never picked it up… even though I’ve had a copy, loaned to me by a family member, sitting on my shelf for over a year (sorry, Aunt Karen!). I read it (and watched it) because of the hype and wasn’t impressed, and I didn’t want the same to be true for The Girl on the Train.
It was everywhere… so many people were saying, “if you loved Gone Girl, read this now!” Confession time: I hated Gone Girl, both the book and the movie. Not for any particular reason… I just really didn’t like it. Unlike almost everyone else in the reading world, I never read The Girl on the Train.
I think I’ll start by saying that this was my first Paula Hawkins novel. Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction
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