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My current book. Wowie this has low ratings on Goodreads, we‘ll see how this goes for me.

Overall: The Blue Hour is a gripping and unsettling thriller that stayed with me long after I finished reading it. If you enjoyed The Girl on the Train or any of Paula Hawkins' other books, you won't want to miss this one!

The full Deep Dive review of this book can be watched from our YouTube channel...

https://youtu.be/qS-I4EOkuGE

I‘m giving this a slow pick because as I think about the atmospheric story now having reached its conclusion, I like and understand why it was told the way it was. But while reading it I kept thinking - the most interesting people are already dead 😵. I didn‘t particularly care about Grace who was alive and well.

1. a) Rain, sofa, blanket, cat, decaf, quiet house. b) Audiobook, bone-conduction headphones, and a long walk already mapped out (with bathrooms along the way). c) Bed, duvet, cat, Kobo, and no concern for how tired tomorrow me will be.
2. The tagged, but mostly I'm just looking forward to any book that allows me to escape reality for a bit.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Not a great photo, but I got to see Paula Hawkins tonight at a fundraiser event for a local non-profit with which I volunteer, and I got a signed copy of her newest book!

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Disappointing.

https://www.wordsalive.org/2024-author-event-fundraiser

Hey, SoCal Littens! In San Diego on October 30, there's an author event with Paula Hawkins that's also a fundraiser for Words Alive, the literacy non-profit with which I've volunteered for the past several years! If you plan to go, let me know...it would be awesome to meet up in person! (I'm going to just the author part after dinner.)

While the outcome was apparent to me pretty early in the story, the tension Hawkins builds as she weaves the stories of both Vanessa and Grace becomes almost unbearable at times, and the ending! Oh, the ambiguous ending! Definitely the stuff made for book clubs to debate!

Readers who are triggered by domestic violence should be aware that is an integral part of this story. This will be one of the hot books of the Fall for sure.