The Girl on the Train

An intriguing story that keeps piquing your curiosity and making you read just a bit more. ( )

What do you get when you throw a bunch of horrible, self-destructive, self-centered, toxic people into a suburban street and introduce them? This book. There are a couple of times that the characters begin to seem a little sympathetic, but oooohhhhh nooooo ... gotta be paranoid, hopeless and idiotic about everything.

OTOH, I can't pretend that I didn't enjoy the book. I ripped through it. It's breezy reading because the author clears out the unreliable narration by presenting the events through an alternative POV. albiet, another completely unreliable narrator, but there you have it.

This might be a spoiler.

There are a couple of points that hit me hard - The gaslighting of alcoholics. It's too easy and cruel. I never thought I'd see it done in a book. I also never thought I'd see the feelings of a woman who'd been through infertility in a book like this one. Again, it's a fairly good representative of women who are longing to have a child, but can't.

I enjoyed reading this one. What a trainwreck it was.

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Depressing, unlikeable characters. Fairly suspenseful. ( )

FANTASTIC and CREEPY. Intensely readable, great character development, and an amazing twist. Don't pick this one up unless you want to read for hours on end. Loved it!! ( )

Read this in mostly one sitting just to be rid of it. Drunk people, angry people, unfaithful people and psychopaths. It's a depressing mess of a story where I worked out who the killer was less than half way through simply because we'd met all the characters by then and there were no other solutions for Megan's mystery lover except the policeman. Don't get me wrong, I read a book once where it WAS the bloody policeman. That was really terrible.

I guess it could have been worse but it wasn't any good. ( )