Book Review: The Girl on the Train
Book Title: The Girl on the Train
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date Published: January 13, 2015
Availability: Click for an available copy from Amazon
Voyeurism and mystery always add up to a good read. Just the title and cover alone made me think this was a cross between Hitchcock and Christie. Was I far off in that assumption? I’ll leave that up to you to decide how much of each is seen in the pages of The Girl on the Train.
This debut thriller from Paula Hawkins reads as if it were written by a seasoned pro with ten or twelve novels under her belt. Maybe this is being written under a pseudonym, but that’s just my guess since it is a tale so well woven. Her main character, the girl on the actual train, is Rachel. She’s a commuter that is not at all satisfied with her own life and looking out the train window on her daily commute, sees a couple whose life she finds idyllic. That is until the day when the woman is no longer there when she looks out the train window. The beginning of the book describes ahead of time what is going to happen when it says, “She’s buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks…” However, the way Hawkins unravels the story is far from a literal “unraveling ” but is a complex exposure of one mysterious thread at a time.
Have you ever had a daily commute on a train and wondered about the lives of those you see each and every day? In their homes, in their yards or in the drive way as they are about to go out and battle the traffic you refuse to battle. What about the morning when that person you’d see every day is no longer there in their home, yard or driveway? What do you do then?
If you commute daily and have the time, read this book during those moments. It will change the way you look out the window and will really make you wonder what is happening in the lives of those you watch.
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