International bestselling author Paula Hawkins may always be best-known for her record-shattering debut, The Girl on the Train. The third thriller from British novelist Paula Hawkins — whose debut book “The Girl on the Train” (2015) sold millions and made millions more in theaters with Emily Blunt in the starring role — “A Slow Fire Burning” continues Hawkins’ penchant for telling stories from multiple points of view. With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water , Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge. But the pain of each character is so overwhelming, and communicated so well, that the reader takes on their pain as their own. Hawkins with her psychological, twisty thriller “Girl on the train”, I was so drawn into her story about complex, broken, unreliable characters.

The young woman Laura, a tragic past, I felt sorry for and Irene a older woman, with a big heart, the only character I actually liked. It is slow and it is a little compelling to read because when you start one of the narrators’ chapter, you ask yourself who was this character and you get to turn back for reading his/ her story one more time to refresh your memory! A narrowboat is not a comfortable environment for a tall man, and this was a very tall man, with a head like a cue ball and a perturbed expression, as though heÕd been expecting to do something else today, something fun, like taking his kids to the park, and now he was here with her, and he wasnÕt happy about it.Laura, especially; she was left hobbled and damaged and then betrayed over and over by the people who should have been there for her. As if someone else wrote it, chapter 30 was my favourite one, where I asked why couldn’t have been like that throughout the book? With characters and a setting similar to HBO’s streaming sensation Mare of Easttown, this story seems tailor-made for the streaming treatment. She could tell what he was thinking: fat old spinster, tree hugger, knit your own yogurt, curtain twitcher.

From the first sentence to the last, this explosive , startling novel grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. A Slow Fire Burning is an atmospheric, suspenseful, psychotic thriller that will have you gripping the edge of your seat. That was what Miriam told Detective Inspector Barker, in any case, when he asked her, later on, What was it made you look?It was the pacing and the large cast of unlikable and unreliable narrators that bogged this one down for me a bit.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I have to say that after a while, I got tired of the continuous bouts of extreme violence that Laura endured. There’s Miriam from the neighbouring boat who “likes to keep an eye on things”; Laura, a hot-tempered young woman who slept with the victim shortly before his death; Carla, the dead man’s aunt, who is already mourning the death of her sister, Angela; and Irene, Angela’s elderly neighbour who is prone to confusion, but not so much that she doesn’t clock the goings-on next door.

It was a book that exposed the way the sympathies of the reader might be manipulated, laying bare how quickly we jump to conclusions about guilt and innocence, power and responsibility. Tie-in all of these characters in a spellbinding, psychotic thriller and pick one out of the bunch narrowing it down into a guilty and not guilty pile, you will undoubtedly need to tear it down and restart with many surprising second guesses. I just put it down to the mental instability of the murderer and all the supporting cast members in this long, drawn out drama. The gripping new thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train features a dead body on a London houseboat and a smörgåsbord of possible culprits. Speechify lets you listen to any text, including all books in the world with the best voices out there!

The characters were deliciously complex and utterly authentic and that is what has stayed with me the longest - their voices, their fragility, their distinct stories.Even though all of them were incredibly damaged to the point it was sad and depressing, I was intrigued with their stories and felt an incredible sense of empathy for them. It’s clearly a case of murder, so for the police it’s now simply a case of identifying who had both the opportunity and the motive. She was in a horrific accident at the age of ten which left her with some brain damage, causing all kinds of unacceptable and out of control incidents to occur.