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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
I wasnt a huge fan of the beginning of the book (the first few chapters). It took me awhile to get into it, but I'm glad I stuck with it. It turned out to be a really good book.
Finished in eight days because I wanted it to be over.
This book is enjoyable with simple plot turns. I appreciate the style of having different point of views from different characters but this one had too many.
An utter confused and confusing mess. Waaaaaay too many narrators. Too try hard with regard to trying to hold on to the mystery. An utter disappointment. Apparently her first novel was a fluke! Now I have to apologize to all of my friends who hated 'Girl on a train'. Ugh.
I changed this to 3 stars down from 4 because the more I thought about it the more I realized I hated the ending.
“Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.”
This was a VAST improvement from her last book. While several of the characters were difficult to like, I didn't find myself hating any of them as much as I did in Girl on the Train. I was worried bc a lot of reviews said that the multiple POV narrative and the large cast of characters made the novel unreadable. I didn't find that to be true at all. Yes, you had to pay attention, but I never felt overwhelmed. Overall a much better read than I expected.
The overabundance of characters and convoluted writing really made this a generally terrible reading experience. It fluctuates between first and third person perspectives at random and from character to character. The mystery is not as appealing as the mystery that Hawkins gave us in "The Girl on the Train." I skimmed through a lot of this because I had invested time in it and felt that I had to finish reading. It picks up with some nice tension with about 100 pages left, but even that dwindles with loose writing. It had a lot of the predictability of "Girl," but without that satisfying ending.
Tl;dr: Lacks resonance and clear construction of writing.
Tl;dr: Lacks resonance and clear construction of writing.
Few too many characters for my own taste. This is not a easy summer beach read. The viewpoints switched often and the fact that even the point of view narration flipped from third to first to Jules talking directly to "you" (aka her deceased sister) made things more difficult to follow.