Yes there are many characters but I thought the plot was better developed than Girl on a Train. I liked reading this book and would recommend it for a quick holiday read.

As many other commenters have mentioned, too many characters, it didn't really grasp me like Girl on a Train. A week on from reading and I don't even remember what happened. A bit disappointing.

I had a hard time getting through this book because there were so many characters (11?). Author Paula Hawkins had a great story line but it just got lost among the multiple characters, the confusion of jumping around with different characters and timelines, the story dragging, etc. I think if it was not because of her bestseller book ("The Girl on the Train"), this wouldn't have gotten so much attention from her readers. Very disappointing--this could've been a really good book but it fell short.

I struggled to read this book and did in fact give up half way through. There were too many characters which made it confusing and convoluted

I understand some of the comments, there are a lot of characters, but they do all make sense in the end. enjoyed it, however, not as good as Girl on the Train

I have to give credit when it is due and Paul Hawkins definitely knows how to pen a good thriller. Although I didn't quite enjoy Into The Water as much as I enjoyed The Girl On The Train (mostly because the former was written from the perspective of way too many characters), I still think that it's a novel worth reading. Paula Hawkins is a really good storyteller and she has definitely made a fan out of me. I'm looking forward to reading future books by her.

Too many characters. Difficult to follow the story-line as a character may disappear and reappear again much later and you have forgotten who they are!

This was a decent 'who done it'. It has an interesting writing style, where the narrative moves from the perspectives of each of the characters. I found it difficult to get into as I needed to go back to identify the previous story for each character. I should have made a list of the main characters with a short bio.

0 stars - awful - couldn't get past page 81, had to give up. The story kept going back and forth to different characters, and I had to keep going to the beginning to try and figure out who was who. By that time I forgot the story.....

By the time I had finished this dark, depressing read I was ready to jump into the Drowning Pool myself. I agree with other reviewers that the ending was REALLY unsatisfactory. This book was a major disappointment after The Girl on the Train (which resulted in a good movie as well). Sometimes authors only have one bestseller in them!