The Girl on the Train in Review With Me

May 24, 2015 Bookish Indulgenges with b00k r3vi3ws rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I got this book from Audible and listened to the audiobook over a period of a week. It was an incredible experience for someone who is a newbie to Audiobooks.

Rachel is a divorcee, who travels by the same train every day. As she passes by her old home, she soon becomes enamored by a couple living down a couple of houses. To her, they seem like the perfect couple who are in love with each other. But one day she sees the girl with another man and soon after the girl goes missing. When Rachel gets t I got this book from Audible and listened to the audiobook over a period of a week. It was an incredible experience for someone who is a newbie to Audiobooks.

Rachel is a divorcee, who travels by the same train every day. As she passes by her old home, she soon becomes enamored by a couple living down a couple of houses. To her, they seem like the perfect couple who are in love with each other. But one day she sees the girl with another man and soon after the girl goes missing. When Rachel gets the news, she feels like she needs to help find the girl. She tells the police what she knows, but they do not take her seriously. That’s when Rachel decides to take some action on her own and the story starts to unfold.

This is such an awesome and horrifying novel. Each and every character in it, much like real life, is flawed. There were moments when I felt like shaking a character till she saw sense and then there were moments where I was too horrified. Rachel, the narrator, is so unreliable because of her drinking habits that half the time I was left wondering if she had been hallucinating about some of the things. She came off all wrong at the beginning and I couldn’t figure out why the author would put her in the forefront of the novel. It took me sometime and it was way past the first half of the story that I managed to warm up to her.

It took me some time to really get the hang of the story (not necessarily because of the writing but mostly because I am yet to get used to listening to audiobooks) but once I got into it, I could hardly stop listening. (Unfortunately real life does seem to get in the way as does the lure of print books.) The language used is opulent and the narration style that gives us the story from three POVs is really interesting. The plot was really engrossing. The mystery had me going back on forth on who the murderer could be. Some of the red herrings really had me going in circles and the climax was worth all the buildup.

The narrators - Louise Brealey, Clare Corbett and India Fisher – have done a great job in bringing the characters alive. I am still not sure about who narrated which character, but they were a perfect fit. It was almost like I could feel the characters and their emotions through their narration.

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Dec 02, 2015 Book'd Hitu rated it it was amazing

Beware before ride this train !!
A power packed suspense thriller, you cannot get down once you board this train.
Amazing story line & gripping narration will not allow you to put down this book once you start off.
A must read for every fiction lover.

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Apr 29, 2015 MP rated it really liked it · review of another edition

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN -- I chose this book to read, because its the best thriller which is released in this year. In the first few chapters the author's writing is inspired me a lots. I read the book which have the similar writing style(GOT), still I'm inspired.

This book evolves around 2 pair's life, sometimes feels like very complicated too.

Rachel, Tom's ex-wife travels in the same route in train which stops in a same place for a signal. There, she used to see a happy couple(Scott and Megan) w ...more

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Jan 11, 2016 Pooja Nair rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery

Makes for a nice racy read!

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Aug 17, 2016 Kayla Krantz rated it it was amazing

Shelves: psychological, favorites, paula-hawkins

I've been meaning to read this book for a while, and I'm finally glad I had the chance to do so. I picked it up and finished it in one setting, it was simply too intoxicating to put down.

Our main character, Rachel, has a hard life after the recent divorce from her husband Tom. She's become a hopeless alcohol, her only job comes in riding the train and studying a house along the way. It's inhabitants are a couple she's dubbed "Jess and Jason," her dream couple. Rachel's blissful fantasy comes to ...more

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May 06, 2015 Maria Riegger rated it liked it

A quick read; a good premise. It was interesting how the author switched between different viewpoints. I also liked the idea that none of the main characters are really sympathetic. That mirrors what real life is like. No one is perfect. This one cheated, this one can't control her drinking, etc.

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Dec 10, 2015 Gowtham Sidharth rated it liked it

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Rachel,an alcoholic in her late twenties lives in London,takes the 8.05 train to work everyday, the train stops at Witney. where she once lived in the suburbs of Blenheim road with her ex-husband tom who is now with his new wife Anna.
One morning Rachel saw something weird happening at house 15, late at that night she got super drunk,visited her ex-husband at no 23 and eventually blacked out. Next day Jess who turns out ...more

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Nov 17, 2017 Dee added it

Shelves: also-book, 1, 1-r, mystery-thriller, crime-thriller, not-rated, boring, 1-did-not-finish

I haven't rated this as gave up at 20% as was bored to tears.....I really couldn't go any further so don't know if it gets better. ...more

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Feb 21, 2020 Vadassery Rakesh rated it liked it

Shelves: 2020-challenge

There was a lot of hype about this book, so I should admit that there was a high expectation about it. Maybe that's why I got a bit disappointed after reading the book.
This is a debut book and it seems the book was written without the end in mind. As it progressed the author made it a thriller with a suspense. But the writing style is good and the suspense though well guarded, was easily guessable.
Got a bit surprised to read it from a lady author that all three women characters are so easily b ...more

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