Slow Fire Burning - Paula Hawkins

Mystery

Rating: 6.5/10

While I wasn’t riveted by this read, I must give the author credit for exploring complex, deeply flawed characters. Fully realized and recognizable in their humanity and driven in some way to commit the crimes they do, if they are in fact guilty.

When a young man is found gruesomely murdered, it triggers questions about those who knew him and who among them wished him dead.  The reader is introduced to three very disparate women, each of whom might be seeking vengeance for a wrong committed against them. It’s their portrayals on the page that kept this reader engaged, the murder surely deserved if what we read is to be believed. 

And that is the very essence of this mystery, what can we in fact believe?  And who…

If there is a theme to this book then it would be that damaged people seek out other damaged people, that people who have been hurt may hurt others.  That is something you need to know going in.

Book Pairing(s): Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh, The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish, The Lost Man by Jane Harper