Friday, May 15, 2015

#17: The Girl on the Train

I finished The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.  I had really good things about this book.  While I really enjoyed the book, but I didn't have that "I can't put it down feeling" like I do with some books.  I felt it was a little slow moving at first.  I would read a little at night, but fall asleep.  Once I got about 170 pages in it finally hit me.  Boom.  I did not want to put it down last night and stayed up reading until past midnight to finish it.

It's about a girl named Rachel who rides the train every day past her ex husband's house.  Instead of looking at his house, she focuses on a different house and imagines the lives of the couple who lives there.  One day she notices something unusual and then things spiral even more out of control.

I felt that I really couldn't trust any of the characters in this book.  All of their lives seemed so messed up.  You were constantly left wondering who was telling the truth and what could happen next.  I had my guesses about what happened to Megan in the book, but my thoughts on how she disappeared kept changing throughout the book.  I agree that this was a page turner, but not right away.  Good crime/mystery book.




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