The girl on the train Review
The girl on the train is one of those books that I found out about after they made a movie of it. The trailer did not impress me, but when I opened the book, I was hooked. It’s about a woman who drinks to numb the pain of heartbreak. Rachel’s drunken narrative in the book is intriguing; you can almost feel the frustration of trying to retrieve a memory lost in the haze of total inebriation, a memory that could free you or doom you. It’s a story told from the perspective of three women, Rachel, with her pain; Megan with her dissatisfaction and Anna with her fierceness. The story goes back and forth in time; weaving through the thin strands of Rachel’s blurred recollections, around the shadowy corners of Megan’s feelings, with the sharp edges of Anna’s voice. Three women who are tied together by their choices which turn out to be life-changing. At the start of the book, you delve into Rachel’s mind, and before you know it, you are drawn into her miserable and wistful thoughts of...