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The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Start date: April 27, 2016

Finish date: April 29, 2016

Discussion: 2016 Challenge prompts

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2016 Challenge prompts

A book with a protagonist who has your occupation...
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Nov 14, 2016 Heather - hturningpages rated it it was ok

Shelves: i-really-tried-to-like-this

Ugh. I don't read a lot of thrillers (the only other one I can think of is Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which I liked), but I think I can still safely say that it's not a genre issue, I'm just not a fan of this one. I like a good mystery, I looovee unreliable narrators, I am also okay with reading about mental illness and addiction, but somehow those things didn't add up to a positive in this book for me. Mostly, I think it's because there isn't a single character in this that I can relate to. Al ...more

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Jun 22, 2015 Stacy rated it it was ok

Shelves: thriller

I wanted to like it more. This book is good, but it's no Gone Girl. The Scooby Doo ending where the villain describes at length why s/he did it was a bit contrived. ...more

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Nov 24, 2015 Susan rated it really liked it

Shelves: kindle, 2015

Good thriller, though the twist at the end wasn't that hard to spot. ...more

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Jul 23, 2015 Rhosyn Goodfellow marked it as abandoned · review of another edition

20% in and there's no mystery yet, just a whole lot of really cringey social interactions. I don't think this book is for me, and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who gets stressed out by embarrassing situations in fiction. ...more

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