Before embarking on a journey of revenge, dig a lot of graves. More graves than you expect to need and then maybe one more for good luck. You just never know how many you might need to achieve it. Stay flexible.
Anna Matheson lost her entire family due to the actions of six people. She’s spent the last twelve years plotting their downfall, culminating in a twelve hour train ride from Philadelphia to Chicago. She’ll confront them with their crimes and then hand them to the authorities in Chicago along with all of the evidence of their misdeeds. Justice will finally be served and Anna will finally have the closure she deserves. As we all know elaborate revenge plots always go exactly as the plotter has planned…
Girl what are you thinking?!? Getting your enemies on a non-stop train ride and tell them they’re going to jail in twelve hours? Of course everything’s going to go to hell. Maybe she should have spent a few more years plotting out a completely different plan. Or even just a shorter train ride. Twelve hours is just way too much time for shenanigans. Anna needed to take some tips from Emily Thorne and her red Sharpie of doom.
Still I did enjoy this and it was a pretty quick read. It was actually more straightforward than I expected from a Riley Sager- I was waiting for the twist, the twist to the twist, and the epilogue twist. I suspected everyone of everything at every moment. Be more chill than I was. Sometimes a train is just a train and not someone’s elderly aunt pretending that they thought they were a train this whole time while carrying out their elaborate train based revenge plot.