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The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
2.5
I've never been big into mystery thrillers but I've always wanted to give them a try so I added a bunch to my list to read. This was one that I've seen many people go on and on about so I thought I'd give it a shot.
And it wasn't bad. It was just meh.
The story revolves around three women: Rachel, Anna, and Megan. And they are all just downright awful. They've each got their tragic backstories (except for Anna, she's just a homewrecker) and it's so hard to sympathize with any of them.
We jump back in time and to present dates to learn to that Rachel's husband left her for Anna and the two of them are now living in Rachel's old home with their baby. Rachel has resorted to alcoholism over the past few years and because of it, she has lost her job. But she doesn't tell her roommate for whatever reason and still takes the train into the town of her old workplace. On the train, Rachel passes by her old house and frequently daydreams about the neighboring couple "Jess" and "Jason". To her, they have the perfect life until she sees "Jess" with a man that isn't "Jason".
Rachel is a very unreliable narrator as she blacks out because of her drinking, so she doesn't know or remember everything. Here we have Anna and Megan's voices come in to try to piece the story together.
The story has a twist, which I didn't feel was necessary. There was no lead up point or even mention of "it" being a thing. It was just thrown in there at the end and honestly just felt like shock value for the sake of being shock value.
I've never been big into mystery thrillers but I've always wanted to give them a try so I added a bunch to my list to read. This was one that I've seen many people go on and on about so I thought I'd give it a shot.
And it wasn't bad. It was just meh.
The story revolves around three women: Rachel, Anna, and Megan. And they are all just downright awful. They've each got their tragic backstories (except for Anna, she's just a homewrecker) and it's so hard to sympathize with any of them.
We jump back in time and to present dates to learn to that Rachel's husband left her for Anna and the two of them are now living in Rachel's old home with their baby. Rachel has resorted to alcoholism over the past few years and because of it, she has lost her job. But she doesn't tell her roommate for whatever reason and still takes the train into the town of her old workplace. On the train, Rachel passes by her old house and frequently daydreams about the neighboring couple "Jess" and "Jason". To her, they have the perfect life until she sees "Jess" with a man that isn't "Jason".
Rachel is a very unreliable narrator as she blacks out because of her drinking, so she doesn't know or remember everything. Here we have Anna and Megan's voices come in to try to piece the story together.
The story has a twist, which I didn't feel was necessary. There was no lead up point or even mention of "it" being a thing. It was just thrown in there at the end and honestly just felt like shock value for the sake of being shock value.