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Paula Hawkins






THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
BY PAULA HAWKINS

GENRE : MYSTERY/THRILLER

SYNOPSIS :

Every Day The Same 

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal taht allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.


Until Today:

And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?



REVIEW :

This book is quite popular. After finishing 100 pages, it feel like I don't want to read this book anymore but I keep reading it and finally the climax of this story is truly amazing. It's no doubt that this book was one of the best new York Times Bestseller Books. 
I read this one out of curiosity. Aware that it had been a huge market success, I wondered if it merited the sales. According to Riverhead, The Girl on the Train is, or was, the fastest-selling adult hardcover fiction debut ever. 
This book was INTOXICATING. I loved every single second of it. While I had gone into this story thinking it was going to be packed with suspenseful scenes, the mystery was really in the storytelling. It was unexpected but executed SOOOO well. A+ use of an unreliable narrator that propelled the story way beyond what I had originally anticipated. Not only was it extremely thrilling and kept me intrigued the entire time, but I seriously appreciated how accurate the representation of alcoholism was. While the events of the story were not necessarily the most "realistic", the many of the characters felt real; like people who could actually exist, who had authentic thoughts and feelings I could see reflected in actual people. It was a fantastic novel and I would highly highly recommend it.
I had very high expectations of this book. It is the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award 2015 in the Mystery & Thriller category and a lot of my friends had praised it highly in their reviews.

The story is narrated by three characters - Rachel, Megan and Anna.

Rachel is the " the girl on the train". She is a an alcoholic whose cheating husband, Tom, had divorced her for Anna. Still she is unable to let go of Tom and keeps calling, texting him and has even retain's Tom's surname. For her drinking problems Rachel has been fired from her job and just takes the train to London to keep up the pretense of still having the job. She wallows in self pity and even though she senses contempt not only from her landlady & her boyfriend but from a random stranger in the train as well etc. she can not clean up her act.

While taking the train she observes a couple whom she has named Jason and Jess every day and one day she observes some thing about the couple and it gives her a jolt. Later it is found that the Jess, whose real name is Megan has gone missing and Rachel decides to play detective.

The three narrators of the story are flawed in some way or the other: Rachel with her substance abuse issues which her destroyed her confidence and self esteem, Megan fighting her own demons from the past and present and Anna is also shown indulging in to activities, which by her own admission, reminds her of Rachel.

The mystery is decent but at times Rachel's behaviour is a bit annoying. I know she is playing the part of a damaged human being but still. The identity of the culprit was a bit too easy to guess also. But overall, it is a good book to read and I would recommend it to people who enjoy psychological mysteries. 

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RATING :
💗💗💗💗


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