The Girl on the Train is a snug thriller with some refreshingly authentic terrible charators and a complex mix of narrative voices, but its narrow vision lacks some of the substantial social criticism of its American competitors, and there are times in the very last act when the crazy and sane plot show a little too evidently.It is not another gone girl but it is a dam good book.
Hawkins exhibits real expertise in changing the characters’ voices at just the perfect time to bring up the anxiety. The delicate revelations about each of the character types and how they connect to the present scenario are drip-fed to the audience with perfection, and the author is excellent at making insignificant details all of a sudden have a huge importance.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN is a dim, haunting and demoralizing psychological thriller, but it's exceptionally powerful thanks to the publishing skills of writer Paula Hawkins. Rachel is a divorced female who would do whatever it takes for a drink, and like a good deal of people absorbed by a love affair with the bottle, one could possibly call her a unwilling recipient of circumstances. Her husband Tom had an affair that resulted in a pregnancy. He divorced Rachel, married his pregnant girl friend and now all three (partner, spouse and baby) are contentedly residing in the house that was one time Rachel's.
The train that Rachel boards to London each day takes her past her old neighborhood. From the window of the train she views not only her old backyard garden that backs up to the tracks, but also the everyday routines of another husband and wife who live down the street from her former home. In her creative thinking she has presented the couple names and has produced a fairy story love life for them. Genuine life, however, cannot live up to her imagination and the couple does not have the picture perfect relationship that Rachel has dreamed
. When a murder occurs, Rachel becomes entangled in the investigation because of what she has witnessed on her daily commute.
This relatively gloomy story with intersecting timelines is told from the perspective of three different women Rachel, Anne and Megan. All the women are untrustworthy narrators with something to cover up. In fact, most of the people in this novel, which includes the men, lack veracity, and are a self-serving and unsympathetic group with plenty of skeletons in their closets.
Lest I proceed and disclose too much of the plot, let me just say that the twists and turns in the story are many and readers will be effortlessly drawn in, making it easy to get through this book in one afternoon.Clentching, enchanting - a top-notch thriller and a obsessive read i really like the dark suspense of this book buy it read it you will never regret it.
Hawkins exhibits real expertise in changing the characters’ voices at just the perfect time to bring up the anxiety. The delicate revelations about each of the character types and how they connect to the present scenario are drip-fed to the audience with perfection, and the author is excellent at making insignificant details all of a sudden have a huge importance.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN is a dim, haunting and demoralizing psychological thriller, but it's exceptionally powerful thanks to the publishing skills of writer Paula Hawkins. Rachel is a divorced female who would do whatever it takes for a drink, and like a good deal of people absorbed by a love affair with the bottle, one could possibly call her a unwilling recipient of circumstances. Her husband Tom had an affair that resulted in a pregnancy. He divorced Rachel, married his pregnant girl friend and now all three (partner, spouse and baby) are contentedly residing in the house that was one time Rachel's.
The train that Rachel boards to London each day takes her past her old neighborhood. From the window of the train she views not only her old backyard garden that backs up to the tracks, but also the everyday routines of another husband and wife who live down the street from her former home. In her creative thinking she has presented the couple names and has produced a fairy story love life for them. Genuine life, however, cannot live up to her imagination and the couple does not have the picture perfect relationship that Rachel has dreamed
. When a murder occurs, Rachel becomes entangled in the investigation because of what she has witnessed on her daily commute.
This relatively gloomy story with intersecting timelines is told from the perspective of three different women Rachel, Anne and Megan. All the women are untrustworthy narrators with something to cover up. In fact, most of the people in this novel, which includes the men, lack veracity, and are a self-serving and unsympathetic group with plenty of skeletons in their closets.
Lest I proceed and disclose too much of the plot, let me just say that the twists and turns in the story are many and readers will be effortlessly drawn in, making it easy to get through this book in one afternoon.Clentching, enchanting - a top-notch thriller and a obsessive read i really like the dark suspense of this book buy it read it you will never regret it.
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