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The Blue Hour

A Novel

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The Blue Hour

By: Paula Hawkins
Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

"The best Paula Hawkins yet by a tense and haunting mile." Lee Child

"An atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller... truly exceptional." Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods

"A masterful exploration of the nature of obsession...I loved it." Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls and Miracle Creek

The propulsive and powerful new novel from the #1 New York Times 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.

"Atmospheric and marvelously twisty." Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution

“Reminiscent of du Maurier: art, islands, missing spouses ... Hard to put down.” Mick Herron

©2024 Paula Hawkins (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
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I did not enjoy this book. It was slow and depressing with few redeeming qualities. I stuck with it thinking this has to get better, but it didn’t. The ending was bad too. The narrator did a good job with the material she had.

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Good narration

Had so much potential but seemed to end abruptly and without much substance. If it were a TV series, I would expect another season.

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Impeccable narration

Ending was disappointing, but definitely a page turner. Don’t read in the middle of the night or you will not go back to sleep.

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Dismal, hopeless story

This book was unrelentlessly depressing. It wasn't even an interesting story...it just droned on and on to its abrupt and sad ending.

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the ending was disappointing.

The narrator was very good. The book was slow listening but suspenful. I was very disappointed with the vague ending.

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Pretty bad

This book was very slow, depressing, disjointed and overall not a great story. Don’t waste a credit.

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Messy, just like life

An enigma within a puzzle within a conundrum! Some things you can’t take your eyes off of otherwise you miss something with this one you can’t take your ears off of it for a second with any distraction otherwise you’d have to go back to the previous chapter and listen all over again to the point where you caught yourself. So much human mess of emotion, trauma and bad behavior. Nothing tidy about this at all. It all makes sense in the end and yet for you as a reader figuring it all out won’t bring you happiness and relief. The fun and the thrill of this was all in the in between. Pretty much like, life.

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Great narrator

I can’t even get into this book. It’s so depressing. I don’t know what’s going on after eight chapters because it’s not interesting enough in my mind wanders

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Painfully Boring

Getting through this is a slog. It's so dull I could only take small doses at a time.

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Don’t waste your time

I kept listening thinking it would get better. Such a slow depressing story with a terrible ending.

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