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bethyxbee 's review for:
The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
I picked up this book because I read somewhere that people who enjoyed Gone Girl would also like this one. I have to say that recommendation did not disappoint!
I loved that the book was narrated by not one, not two, but three different characters, so it gives you insight into many different parts of the story. Rachel is an alcoholic, Anna is the mistress-turned-wife, and Megan has some serious emotional issues going on here. On the flip side, we have the three main male characters: Tom, Scott and Kamal, and we are taken through the story of how all of their lives intertwined.
I have to say I didn't guess who the villain was in this until close to the end, but I am also notoriously bad at picking up on those kinds of things, so most people will probably figure that out much sooner than I did. But looking back, I was just like: "Huh. Yes. This makes sense."
The Girl on the Train is definitely a read-in-one-day kind of book. Honestly once you get a few chapters into it, you just need to know what happens with Anna, Megan and Rachel. I loved and hated each of our three girls at different points: we get very intimately acquainted with their flaws and sometimes terrible personalities, and I went from wanting to shake some sense into them to wanting to hug them, repeatedly.
I definitely recommend giving this one a shot if you enjoyed any of Gillian Flynn's books. It's definitely got the same gritty and twisted personality that we loved so much from them.
I loved that the book was narrated by not one, not two, but three different characters, so it gives you insight into many different parts of the story. Rachel is an alcoholic, Anna is the mistress-turned-wife, and Megan has some serious emotional issues going on here. On the flip side, we have the three main male characters: Tom, Scott and Kamal, and we are taken through the story of how all of their lives intertwined.
I have to say I didn't guess who the villain was in this until close to the end, but I am also notoriously bad at picking up on those kinds of things, so most people will probably figure that out much sooner than I did. But looking back, I was just like: "Huh. Yes. This makes sense."
The Girl on the Train is definitely a read-in-one-day kind of book. Honestly once you get a few chapters into it, you just need to know what happens with Anna, Megan and Rachel. I loved and hated each of our three girls at different points: we get very intimately acquainted with their flaws and sometimes terrible personalities, and I went from wanting to shake some sense into them to wanting to hug them, repeatedly.
I definitely recommend giving this one a shot if you enjoyed any of Gillian Flynn's books. It's definitely got the same gritty and twisted personality that we loved so much from them.