The Girl on the Train : A Novel (Paperback)

from tuusannuuska

An interesting mystery in the vein of Gone Girl and Memento. Maybe I'd have preferred a few less clues so that the culprit would have remained a mystery for longer, but all in all the story was good. I don't think I liked a single one of the characters, but they definitely conformed to my cynic...

from ElisabethZguta

The story is presented almost completely by internal dialogue in the beginning. The reader sees all that the character sees, the small things that make her cringe with self-loathing, as she takes each sip of booze and pretends to be normal. All the main women characters have internal dialogues - ...

from DeltaQueen50

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins definitely took me on quite the ride. This was not an easy book to put down, the twists and turns kept the pages turning, but I was pretty much able to keep up with the author and so wasn't surprised at the ending. I won't go into plot details in any depth a...

from RidgewayGirl

The Girl on the Train is Rachel, an unemployed, newly divorced woman with a serious drinking problem. Traveling to London every day on the train, she passes the back of her old house, now filled with her ex-husband's new wife and baby. But what fascinates her are the inhabitants a few doors down,...

from PhilipJHunt

Is there any more infuriating writer than Ms Hawkins? Characters I really can't like or care about. First person narratives that force me to constantly check the page headings to remind me who is talking. Time shifts that have me flipping backwards to understand the sequence of events. But… I ju...