The Blue Hour
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Average rating3.1
The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. 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 . . . A masterful novel that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith, and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers.
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3.5. Pretty good. It didn't have the punch of Girl on the Train, but interesting characters.
I love a good slow burn thriller and while this was definitely a slow burn which I enjoyed I'm not sure how I liked it.
On one hand I enjoyed how everything came together, the interesting relationship dynamics and how everyone seemingly unraveled into this madness.
While it was clear to me who really killed Julian from early on I didn't see the other little twists that were revealed at the end.
That being said I don't really like the narrative given to Grace the whole fat and ugly narrative was a little tired for me and came off as lazy and unimaginative.
Like you couldn't develop this character in a more complex way that didn't just rely on her appearance and lack of attractiveness? This fell flat for me. And while I enjoyed the plot, the writing style and the suspense I just can't reconcile with how weak and flimsy this narrative is.
3.5 ⭐️
So very, very Hawkins!
Paula is able to write in such a way that it burrows into your psyche. Like an ink blot test, Paula is able to find parts of you and bring them forward as part of the story, so that your own scruples and unacknowledged anxieties become part of the story.
YOU progress the plot just by letting Paula's dark and thrilling narration unfold, and take root.
Incredible story, beautifully thrilling and petrifying plot and character developments, and what an ending.
