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A review by josiethompson
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
4.0
This book is outside of my usual genre so take my review with a grain of salt.
The mystery kept you going. It kept you on the edge of your seat and the pages turning. However, the lives of the characters were so screwed up. Their minds were messed up and that truly is what bothers me about mysteries. It's bothers me the same in crime TV shows and movies, like how does a human being have that psychologically screwed up thought process. But its intriguing at the same time.
I started and finished the book within 2 days, so it definitely keeps you roped in and the style of the writing and how the story is told is unique to me so I enjoyed that as well. I just think this will be the first and last mystery/thriller novel I read for a while. There was a twist at the end, because I swore I thought I knew how it was gonna end about 4 chapters in. I was just waiting for it to be confirmed. But the twist was nice:).
HOWEVER. I didn't LOVE it. Not a book that I'd recommend to someone and say "Yes read this one, this one was REALLY good". I honestly did not want to keep reading it after a few chapters. But I also was too curious as to how it truly ends, whether I was right or not, to stop and start something else. So that's all it really had to keep me going - my own curiosity.
Anyway, it was a good story. Not my typical cup of tea but a good story by the end of it. I'm headed back to my historical fiction and WWII novels now :)
The mystery kept you going. It kept you on the edge of your seat and the pages turning. However, the lives of the characters were so screwed up. Their minds were messed up and that truly is what bothers me about mysteries. It's bothers me the same in crime TV shows and movies, like how does a human being have that psychologically screwed up thought process. But its intriguing at the same time.
I started and finished the book within 2 days, so it definitely keeps you roped in and the style of the writing and how the story is told is unique to me so I enjoyed that as well. I just think this will be the first and last mystery/thriller novel I read for a while. There was a twist at the end, because I swore I thought I knew how it was gonna end about 4 chapters in. I was just waiting for it to be confirmed. But the twist was nice:).
HOWEVER. I didn't LOVE it. Not a book that I'd recommend to someone and say "Yes read this one, this one was REALLY good". I honestly did not want to keep reading it after a few chapters. But I also was too curious as to how it truly ends, whether I was right or not, to stop and start something else. So that's all it really had to keep me going - my own curiosity.
Anyway, it was a good story. Not my typical cup of tea but a good story by the end of it. I'm headed back to my historical fiction and WWII novels now :)