4 stars is fair enough. This is my 2nd thriller & mystery book that I've ever read until the end. Previously, I've readThe Cuckoo's Calling, and honestly I felt like mystery & thriller is not my thing. But........ ... See More

This is the kind of book that's so good it makes me envious, makes me wanting to be able to write a story like this. It started out a bit slow, but soon it's picking up pace and became so engaging I barely able to stop reading. All the characters are fucked-up people, I think that's one of the reasons why I love this. Though I find it quite distressing that almost all people are violent when they get angry. But I think that's because the author wanted the reader to suspect all people. Nobody can be trusted. Nobody is decent.

I read this book in one sitting. Now I know this book has been compared to other dark suspense novels, but this holds it's own. The story hooked me in pretty much from the beginning, and I could not put it down. I was up until nearly 2:00am trying to finish it before I passed out - only to dream about it and immediately pick it back up when I woke up the next day.

She becomes preoccupied with a couple she see's from the train. Their house, on the same street as her previous home. She even names them, she recreates what their day to day lives are like. She tries to imagine the passion they share - the love that they feel for one another. Perhaps imagining the love... See More

The Girl on The Train has a unique way in telling its story. The story is told in multiple points of views, brilliant timeline, and it revolves around one night where everything changes. So, Rachel, a depressed woman who rides the train every single day had a blackout on one Saturday night. The next day, she wakes up naked with bruises on her body, and she doesn't remember anything about what happened that night. The cops visit her and she is somehow a suspect regarding the missing of Megan. A girl she sees from the train every day. Thus, the story from Rachel's point of view moves forward.