A review by greymalkin
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A nicely created mystery story, with a hot mess unreliable narrator of a protagonist.  I enjoyed trying to figure out what was going on based on the information filtered through Rachel's PoV.  There was enough there for me to create a few different theories as I was reading.

The ending/"what really happened" was pretty clear to me by about 2/3rds in, but by then I was invested in Rachel figuring it out and seeing what she would do with that information, so it was still a compelling read to the end.  

If I have to quibble, I wonder how Rachel does not have serious brain damage from the multiple head traumas throughout the book.  Did no one put the girl in an MRI? 
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