{"id":70382,"date":"2017-03-22T14:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=70382"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T05:32:51","slug":"youll-reading-book-long-past-bedtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/youll-reading-book-long-past-bedtime\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll be reading this book long past your bedtime!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/into-the-water-paula-hawkins\/prod9780857524430.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70386\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/INTO-THE-WATER-TOP-BLOG-BANNER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the phenomenal success of her debut novel Paula Hawkins set herself a hard act to follow. Luckily her new novel,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/into-the-water-paula-hawkins\/prod9780857524430.html\"> <em>Into the Water<\/em><\/a>, is every bit as compulsively readable as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-girl-on-the-train-paula-hawkins\/prod9781784161750.html\"><em>The Girl on the Train<\/em><\/a> &#8211; though admittedly a very different sort of book.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>The Girl on the Train<\/em> was an emotionally fraught rollercoaster ride,<em> Into the Water<\/em> is more of an ominous and grimly foreboding ghost story. Told through the eyes of multiple characters, this is a mystery that crosses back and forth through time, and constantly threatens to tiptoe over the line between reality and the supernatural.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/into-the-water-paula-hawkins\/prod9780857524430.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70385\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PAULA-COLLAGE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For me, one of the most intriguing aspects of <em>Into the Water<\/em> was the way in which Jules\u2019 backstory slowly unfolds, revealing the heartbreaking cause of the animosity she has always felt towards her older sister. I also found myself desperately hoping that Jules would find a way to connect with her troubled young niece.<\/p>\n<p>This is a truly addictive read &#8211; a tense psychological thriller with an ending that definitely caught me by surprise. For fans of Paula Hawkins, be aware &#8211; this book is quite different from <em>The Girl on the Train. <\/em>Nevertheless, it still possesses that same \u2018impossible to put down\u2019 quality which urges you to keep reading long past your bedtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the phenomenal success of her debut novel Paula Hawkins set herself a hard act to follow. Luckily her new novel, Into the Water, is every bit as compulsively readable as The Girl on the Train &#8211; though admittedly a very different sort of book. While The Girl on the Train was an emotionally fraught rollercoaster ride, Into the Water is more of an ominous and grimly foreboding ghost story. Told through the eyes of multiple characters, this is a mystery that crosses back and forth through time, and constantly threatens to tiptoe over the line between reality and the supernatural. For me, one of the most intriguing aspects of Into the Water was the way in which Jules\u2019 backstory slowly unfolds, revealing the heartbreaking cause of the animosity she has always felt towards her older sister. I also found myself desperately hoping that Jules would find a way to connect with her troubled young niece. This is a truly addictive read &#8211; a tense psychological thriller with an ending that definitely caught me by surprise. For fans of Paula Hawkins, be aware &#8211; this book is quite different from The Girl on the Train. Nevertheless, it still possesses that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":70390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[9,6678],"tags":[7352,4196,4703,5542],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Paula-SOCIAL.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70382"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70414,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70382\/revisions\/70414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}