The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt.
The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives, from the author of Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning.
“Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.”—Vanity Fair
“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . [It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership.”—The New York Times
“Marries movie noir with novelistic trickery. . . hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend.”—USA Today
“Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and the reader cannot help but turn pages.”—The Boston Globe
“Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller.”—People
EVERY DAY THE SAME
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life--as she sees it--is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
UNTIL TODAY
And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
Nothing happened for literally about 90% of the story. I was sooo bored.
Then, once we got into it, I started feeling another emotion: hatred. I literally hated (or at least didn't like) every single character.
Sure, I understood why some of the characters (mainly the MC) were such a mess. For a while I sympathized, but honestly my patience wore thin. They were all either absolutely nuts and kept making the same mistakes over and over, or they were just annoying.
Even when everything came together at the end and got a bit more exciting, I still wasn't nearly as excited as I should have been, largely because I didn't care about ANYONE. I had no one to root for since I kind of hated them all. This made me pretty indifferent about solving the mystery all together.
Also, I felt like there weren't enough breadcrumbs leading us to the mystery. Usually I like it to be a surprise, but then I like to look back at the breadcrumbs and think, "Ohh yeah, that makes sense now." But in this book, it felt more like, "Oh, btw, here's some information I never told you that totally explains why this happened." It's just kind of dumped on us in the last 10% with no solid evidence leading back to it at the beginning. (Unless I'm #epicfail and just missed it completely...)
I really wanted to like this book, but it was just too slow/boring for too long, and I wanted at least one character to fall in love with and be able to stand behind.. but I literally couldn't root for any of them. :(
