The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

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Title: The Girl on the Train
Author: Paula Hawkins
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 336
Date read: September, 2015

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. "Jess and Jason", she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.

And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough.

Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar.

Now they'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the train...


I started "reading" this as an audiobook and simply could not get through it - no clue why as I liked the narrators well enough. I think it was probably just too slow-moving for me. So when I found it as an ebook I switched and finished within 2 days!

I mostly liked it. Once I got properly into it, it was very difficult to put down, and although Rachel's self-destructive behaviour really bugged me at times, it got better through the book, and obviously served a purpose.

The book had me guessing until the very end almost. I had theories, but most of them turned out to be wrong. I kept thinking that there was something that didn't ring quite true though - and it turned out I was right.

Trying to avoid spoilers here, but the end annoyed me. Paula Hawkins took the easy way out when it came to the resolution, and it's the kind of cop-out that always annoys me in suspense novels, but which unfortunately is defaulted to way too often.

So with the slow start and annoying ending in mind, this couldn't get higher than 3 stars from me.