Review of ‘The Girl on the Train’ #Readbravely

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

This is amazing that I am posting back to back book reviews on my blog. I finished reading the second book of the year. I am honestly impressed at the speed in which I am finishing the books. Last year, it was taking me weeks if not months to finish a single book, so many books I left unfinished with bookmarks still intact inside their pages. Some books I wish to go back and finish while for some books I guess I will never reach the last page. Interestingly many of the books were international bestsellers yet I never managed to turn pages till the end. Maybe, I was distracted by other mundane thoughts and never really got inside the book cover.

Thankfully, in 2018, so far so good and I finished two books in seven days.  Both the books have been diametrically opposite in every sense. While Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat was the innocent and rustic story of an orphan goat, the second book The Girl on a Train was intriguing and gray. There are no black and white characters in this book and every single character is gray with their own vices, yet they do not appear as villains but extremely humane.

This book tells us that what we see on the surface is not actually the truth and once we scratch a little we get to see the actual ugliness of relationships (note to self/others: do not take Facebook PDA by couples literally, you may never know how their relationship is in real life