The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkinsโ€“ 336 pages

Book Blurb:

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. Sheโ€™s even started to feel like she knows them. โ€œJess and Jason,โ€ she calls them. Their lifeโ€”as she sees itโ€”is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
And then she sees something shocking. Itโ€™s only a minute until the train moves on, but itโ€™s enough. Now everythingโ€™s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

My Review: 4 stars

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I finally boarded the train that everyone has been talking about and read this book! Let me start of by saying that we have to stop comparing every thriller written by a woman to Gone Girl from 2012. Seriously folks, it was three years ago!

On to the book review… This story is told from the point of view of three women, all of them completely unreliable narrators. That in itself is a mystery as the reader tries to grapple with what bits and pieces are lies versus the truth. All the characters were well developed in a unique way however Rachelโ€™s damaged, sad, drunk, bitter life was my favorite. I loved her wild imagination about โ€œJess and Jasonโ€ and how she took people watching, (a combination of train spotting and โ€˜rear windowingโ€™) to a new level. All three women grapple with guilt in some way or another and itโ€™s a theme throughout the book. Note that the time and date that lead every chapter are important to notice in this book.

Overall, this is a fast paced thriller/mystery that will appeal to most readers.

Quotes I liked:

The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.โ€

-โ€œIโ€™m playing at real life instead of actually living it.โ€

-โ€œI have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.โ€

-โ€œLife is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.โ€

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