I got this book from the library, and I had to wait for like 15 people to read it and bring it back before I could get it. I totally understand now. I COULD NOT put this book down! I read it at lunch time while I was at work. Like to the point where I probably could’ve gotten fired because I couldn’t stop reading and get back to work. Rachel rides the train everyday to work. Well, kinda to work (just read the book […]
Depression, and blackouts, and murder(?), OH MY!
If you are looking for a well written, fast moving psychological thriller in the vein of Gillian Flynn’s brilliant Gone Girl you will be entertained and satisfied with The Girl on the Train. Like Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train uses an unreliable narrator structure to keep the reader off balance, revealing information bits at a time so that your understanding of the story keeps changing. It also features characters that are largely unlikable, yet strangely compelling, and keeps you turning the pages even […]
Girl Undecided
I know I’m not in the majority here, but I just did not love this book as much as everyone else did. Or maybe I did. I really can’t make up my mind about it. I did stay up until 3am to finish it in one day. Rachel is a woman on a downward spiral after her husband left her, her job fired her and her alcoholism is out of control. She takes the train every day to fool her roommate into thinking she’s still […]
Watching the world go by
This is one of those books where you’ll figure “it” out about halfway through — but you’ll be so enthralled that you’ll still devour the second half of the book, just to see if you were right! “A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told” First of all, this is not a book where you’re going to be particularly fond of […]
Like Gone Girl’s Twin, but Slightly Better
Rachel rides the train every day. And every day she passes the same homes and people going through their same routines. Until one day, something changes. What Rachel sees alters the trajectory of her life that is already complicated with a divorce and alcoholism. Anna is a stay at home mom. Although her life seems simple, she lives in the shadow of her husband’s ex-wife, struggling with raising her two-year old daughter and keeping her sanity while trying to maintain a happy marriage. Megan shouldn’t […]
Gillian Flynn: Lite edition
I’m going to be honest with y’all, I heard about The Girl on the Train through a recommendation on Reese Witherspoon’s instagram page. I figure if she is making Big Little Lies into an HBO miniseries and produced last year’s Gone Girl she must have pretty good literary taste. And she does! There are a lot of comparisons between The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl floating around and they aren’t incorrect. There are multiple narratives told by unreliable narrators with a missing woman […]
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