A Slow Fire Burning

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Intricately interwoven plots and subplots, propulsive twists and a neat finale, while it’s no The Girl On The Train, A Slow Fire Burning is a deliciously easy psycho drama to hungrily tear through. A Slow Fire Burning is an atmospheric, suspenseful, psychotic thriller that will have you gripping the edge of your seat. The first time she saw him, she'd said good morning and he'd looked up at her and smiled and all the hair stood up on the back of her neck. This article comes from Saturday, the new print magazine from the Guardian which combines the best features, culture, lifestyle and travel writing in one beautiful package. The need for revenge gradually brewing inside the characters, built up over a long period because of deceit and treachery, eventually leading to murder is aptly revealed in the pace of the book as well as on the title.

There are numerous characters seen leaving the crime scene reportedly by his nosey neighbor Miriam, who has a side story of her own tying the Twist and turns and complicating who did it. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Like the three parts of a braid, the stories of the three women in A Slow Fire Burning come together and are interwoven into one. It was the pacing and the large cast of unlikable and unreliable narrators that bogged this one down for me a bit. Dark and disturbing, this twisted story with its cast of damaged characters builds to a brilliant conclusion. Inside her a bitter darkness bloomed as she watched, with helpless desperation, her once limitless horizons narrow.

An unflinching look at the damage sparked by grief, loss and betrayal - and the revenge and retribution that ensues.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. A Slow Fire Burning is a hugely gripping, character-based thriller, with great writing and brilliant twists. The toilet paper around her forearm bloomed scarlet, her limb throbbing gently as the blood pulsed out of her. There are unreliable and unlikeable characters, a book within a book and plenty of twists and turns. The author was trying to tell too many stories in one novel, and all the various plot threads step all over each other.

I just put it down to the mental instability of the murderer and all the supporting cast members in this long, drawn out drama. This being a Hawkins novel, the plot twists are sprinkled liberally to keep listeners on their toes, though the story is sustained by the humanity of these expertly narrated characters whose secrets are slowly brought to the surface. 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. It has the complexity of The Great Gatsby - everything was set up perfectly and was surprising at the end.We start in this book at the ending and follow through the back stories of all of the characters, switching back and forth also through various timelines. The relationship she forms with the 80-year-old lady (whose name I can’t remember) is lovely, they care for one another, and it’s an excellent example of young and old helping each other and keeping company to the benefit of both parties. When I think back on this book, there was one character who said something that if it was not said might have changed quite a bit of the book. Pages later, we meet Miriam, who lives on a houseboat in London’s Regent’s Canal and “likes to keep an eye on things. This is a very cerebral mystery so I wouldn’t recommend reading this after several glasses of wine, or whatever unless you reason better this way!

I found that I ended up putting the book down for a while whereas her others I didn't want to put down. With a beautifully wrought cast of characters who are real and likeable even when they are complicated and flawed, a fantastic, picturesque London setting, twists and turns galore and exquisite prose, this is a high class read.

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Group Riverhead for this incredible ARC in exchange for mt honest opinion.