It’s why I have been refraining myself to mention names here. As I’m writing this review, I have already forgotten most of the names. However, there was not even a single character in Into the Water that was worth remembering. So many POVs can be interesting if you start liking the characters as you dive deep into the chapters.
None of the characters in the book were likeable. By the time I was finished half way, things were dragging for me and I was irritated. I would often go back to find out who was related to whom in which way. It was confusing for me because after some time, it became difficult to keep a track of the characters. And you get to read it in their own narratives. The entire novel follows the same pattern and that is the primary problem with the book.įor about 70% of the book, the plot goes nowhere Into the Water keeps circling around the relationships of different people and their present circumstances how they are dealing with the death/s. The book is divided into 4 parts and though I really thought that after first part, the different POVs will merge into one that never happened.
Each chapter written from someone else’s point of view. Too Many POVsīy the time you read the first 50 pages of Into the Water, you would have already read 6-7 different POVs. With the most current death, a fifteen-year-old girl is left behind with her mother’s sister who is adamant to find out the truth about her mother’s suicide. However, if we look into the past, these are not the first women to end up dead in the dark waters. Earlier in summer, a teenage girl had met the same fate.
But this is the second of its kind occurrence. My Rating: 2 Hawkins’ sophomore novel has a decent plot.Ī single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river running through the town.
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