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The Girl on the Train
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Finish date
September 13, 2015
Why we're reading this
An audiobook
Published in 2015 and lots of good reviews.
The author was born and raised in Zimbabwe, though…more

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Rossie
Oct 17, 2015 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Book club strikes again. :-/ 300 pages of black-outs, marital woes, and riding trains back and forth thinking about who might be a killer. It's fluff. Depressing fluff. ...more
Kerry
Feb 04, 2016 rated it it was ok
This isn't the sort of book I usually read (a modern "thriller") but I raced through it in a couple days so I can't say it was terrible, because it wasn't. It's decently written (though none of the prose ever made me catch my breath, of course) and the bad guy wasn't obvious (to me) until he was. (Though I am notoriously slow on the uptake with those sorts of things.)

At one point I thought "well, I guess the moral of the story is that all men are monsters" but really, when I think about it, all
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Deb
Oct 10, 2017 rated it it was ok
In the vein of Gone Girl--another story told by unlikable and untrustworthy narrators. Could Rachel be more tiresome? Sheesh. By the end, I found it hard to care at all about what the outcome would be. Still, it fit the bill of a quick, mindless read.
Laura
Aug 31, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2015
Audio
Gayle
Jul 20, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2016
Amazing.
Malaina
Aug 05, 2015 rated it liked it
Becky
Aug 29, 2015 rated it liked it
Keturah
Oct 01, 2015 rated it it was ok
Maria
Nov 10, 2015 marked it as to-read
Dora
Dec 26, 2015 marked it as to-read
Teresa
Dec 30, 2015 rated it really liked it
Melissa Ormond
Jan 05, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: read-kindle
Eman Amanullah
Jan 11, 2016 rated it liked it
Jennifer
Apr 24, 2016 rated it liked it
Aleetha
Jun 20, 2016 marked it as to-read
Kristie Lanzotti
Jul 06, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Jamie Dornfeld
Aug 05, 2016 rated it liked it
Libby
Aug 17, 2016 rated it liked it
Carrie
Sep 03, 2016 rated it really liked it
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Nov 21, 2016 rated it really liked it
Donna
Dec 29, 2016 marked it as to-read-fiction
Hillary
Nov 18, 2017 rated it liked it
Erica
Oct 12, 2018 rated it really liked it
Sarah
Dec 26, 2017 marked it as to-read
Khairunnisa Nakathorige
Apr 30, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Powhataner
Sep 09, 2018 rated it it was amazing