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3.08 AVERAGE
3.08 AVERAGE
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
DNF at 11 page
Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely they're connected?
No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die.
I can't believe this! Three books in a row. THREE!!
I was very intrigued and interest in the story. I was expecting some creepy and dark atmosphere. Maybe at one point the story turns to be creepy and dark, but I've never reached that point. I was easily distracted from everything. I couldn't focus on the story, in the character. The pace was too slow to me. Definitely not a reading for me
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is narrated by a young woman’s ghost in search of connection between her death and the recent suicide on the train station she was trapped in. Two deaths, including hers, on Platform Seven.
This book has a straight plotline. Doesn’t need a plot twist, as readers keep on reading, the answers will prevail. I was expecting otherworldly stuff, the ghost wandering, revealing the mystery around her unknown death. But in the middle of the story, it became a flashback, or perhaps a revelation of some sort of what happened to the young woman before her death. And it’s certainly painful. I had considered to DNF but I really wanted to know the truth. The narration on domestic abuse and gaslighting is unfiltered. At some point, I was so tired reading this.
All in all, good story, but could be shorter. Certain things in my personal opinion don’t have to be included in details.
This book has a straight plotline. Doesn’t need a plot twist, as readers keep on reading, the answers will prevail. I was expecting otherworldly stuff, the ghost wandering, revealing the mystery around her unknown death. But in the middle of the story, it became a flashback, or perhaps a revelation of some sort of what happened to the young woman before her death. And it’s certainly painful. I had considered to DNF but I really wanted to know the truth. The narration on domestic abuse and gaslighting is unfiltered. At some point, I was so tired reading this.
All in all, good story, but could be shorter. Certain things in my personal opinion don’t have to be included in details.
This book centres around the story of the ghost of a girl trapped at Peterborough station. There is a creeping sense of unease her memories begin to return - and you are compelled to turn the pages to find out what happens. About a third of the way into the book it feels like the story goes in an unexpected direction and the ending feels a bit strange and rushed. Was a bit torn about whether to give it 3 or 4 stars - but the writing is good and it’s a real page turner.
This was an ok book, I honestly thought there would be more to it. There was no mystery or thriller to it, it was just a blah book. I didn't hate it, I didn't love it, I just wanted to get it over with so that I could get to a more interesting book.
3.5-⭐️: I very much liked the first part of the book, but it treads into “domestic thriller” for about 2/3, which I found infuriating(?) to consume. It’s a ME thing, for sure! I’ve just taken in far too much domestic abuse/gaslighting texts lately. If I read this after a month of overly happy reads, I’d give this book a 4, so my rating could change in the future.
I also think this “past reveal” parts of the book could have been revealed in smaller bites... maybe not? I’m not sure. I have mixed feelings about the plot. It’s quiet and loud at the same time. I haven’t read other reviews of the book yet, but I did find the ending quite satisfying, though I can see how someone may be “meh” about it because the resolution is quiet. The paranormal take, though, is fantastic!
Trigger warnings: gaslighting (a shit-TON), and suicide
I also think this “past reveal” parts of the book could have been revealed in smaller bites... maybe not? I’m not sure. I have mixed feelings about the plot. It’s quiet and loud at the same time. I haven’t read other reviews of the book yet, but I did find the ending quite satisfying, though I can see how someone may be “meh” about it because the resolution is quiet. The paranormal take, though, is fantastic!
Trigger warnings: gaslighting (a shit-TON), and suicide
I'm not hiding the content, even though there are some spoilers in here I guess, because this book was triggering and people have to know that. Do not read Platform Seven if gaslighting, abuse of any kind or suicide are triggering to you!
This kind of sucked?
I definitely enjoyed the first bit of the book quite a lot, but the overwhelming majority of Platform Seven was just about a guy gaslighting his girlfriend and it took me MANY days to get through those hundreds and hundreds of pages. It's just upsetting. I would've liked for there to have been trigger warnings also and just something that would've warned me about the course this plot would take beforehand, because the synopsis sounded really intriguing, but that's just not at all what the book ended up to be about. I don't want to read about abuse and gaslighting. A trigger warning wouldn't have spoiled anything major anyway, if there had been one, and in my opinion it doesn't even matter if trigger warnings spoiled anything, because they're there for protection.
There wasn't much shocking like in a plot twist-y way either. It's just upsetting, because the concept sounded so cool and then I ended up having to push through very triggering plot in the hopes for him to get justice and then he didn't. He did get something, but seriously? Like yeah real life sucks, but I don't go to books for that. I skipped a lot of text and did that thing where you only read speech, I just wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible. It's been a couple of days since I finished it and everything I remember gives me a lot of anxiety. Not memorable in a positive way. Disappointed this wasn't what it sounded like.
Again, do not read Platform Seven if gaslighting, abuse of any kind or suicide are triggering for you. Also don't read this like in general unless you want to get real worked up and angry I guess? Maybe give this book to the horrible men in your life. Maybe this'll teach them something. Or don't, because maybe they'll get ideas. I'm very upset. This could've been an amazing book. The synopsis sounded so cool, but nope...
This kind of sucked?
I definitely enjoyed the first bit of the book quite a lot, but the overwhelming majority of Platform Seven was just about a guy gaslighting his girlfriend and it took me MANY days to get through those hundreds and hundreds of pages. It's just upsetting. I would've liked for there to have been trigger warnings also and just something that would've warned me about the course this plot would take beforehand, because the synopsis sounded really intriguing, but that's just not at all what the book ended up to be about. I don't want to read about abuse and gaslighting. A trigger warning wouldn't have spoiled anything major anyway, if there had been one, and in my opinion it doesn't even matter if trigger warnings spoiled anything, because they're there for protection.
There wasn't much shocking like in a plot twist-y way either. It's just upsetting, because the concept sounded so cool and then I ended up having to push through very triggering plot in the hopes for him to get justice and then he didn't. He did get something, but seriously? Like yeah real life sucks, but I don't go to books for that. I skipped a lot of text and did that thing where you only read speech, I just wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible. It's been a couple of days since I finished it and everything I remember gives me a lot of anxiety. Not memorable in a positive way. Disappointed this wasn't what it sounded like.
Again, do not read Platform Seven if gaslighting, abuse of any kind or suicide are triggering for you. Also don't read this like in general unless you want to get real worked up and angry I guess? Maybe give this book to the horrible men in your life. Maybe this'll teach them something. Or don't, because maybe they'll get ideas. I'm very upset. This could've been an amazing book. The synopsis sounded so cool, but nope...
Wow. Just Wow.
Content Warnings for coersive control & suicide.
I will say, as someone who lives with depression, I wouldn't read this book when you are in a bad place mentally as it is very heavy going!
My husband read this book first and recommended it to me and I did not expect to be so blown away by it.
We start with a suicide on Platform 7 of Peterborough station, and questions are asked as to if this was related to another suicide there 18 months previously. What starts to unfold is a story of Lisa, who she was before her death and what happened to her. This is intertwined with other stories.
Beautifully written this is almost a literary fiction crossed with a thriller/mystery, I couldn't put it down.
Content Warnings for coersive control & suicide.
I will say, as someone who lives with depression, I wouldn't read this book when you are in a bad place mentally as it is very heavy going!
My husband read this book first and recommended it to me and I did not expect to be so blown away by it.
We start with a suicide on Platform 7 of Peterborough station, and questions are asked as to if this was related to another suicide there 18 months previously. What starts to unfold is a story of Lisa, who she was before her death and what happened to her. This is intertwined with other stories.
Beautifully written this is almost a literary fiction crossed with a thriller/mystery, I couldn't put it down.
