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The Girl on the Train
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Start date
October 7, 2016
Finish date
November 1, 2016
Why we're reading this
While not YA, we've read outside of the genre in the past and our group resoundingly wanted to read this …more

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Erin
Jun 23, 2015 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
A few things were left unexplained which always annoys me. Why introduce them at all? I thought the first 3/4 of the book was kind of slow going and much of the same and then all of the sudden it rushed through everything in the last part. I liked the ending but thought it was way more hyped up than it needed to be. I wouldn't recommend. ...more
Jackie
Apr 03, 2015 rated it really liked it
This book was an interesting read. It's told in three points of view--Rachel, Anna, and Megan. Rachel is the title character as best I can tell, and she is the link in the story among the other characters. When the story begins, she is struggling with alcoholism and depression and coping with her divorce that happened at least a year prior. Each day she rides the train into London and she basically spies on her old house and affectionately names one of the couples she sees each day who would hav ...more
Lindsey
Feb 04, 2015 rated it it was amazing
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Wow. It's going to take me a little while to recover from this one. SO good. Written in a way that immediately gets you into the heads of the characters. I felt just as crazy and unsure as the characters did all the way through.

This is the next Gone Girl. But it's so much better.
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Traci Magee
Apr 09, 2015 rated it really liked it
WOW!!!!
Electra Baskerville
Mar 30, 2015 rated it liked it
It took me a min to get into this book, it really started out slow, but eventually, picked up. I liked it, I didn't love it. The women were, I don't know, oblivious to what was really going on, they never questioned their husband about anything. Towards the end, I did get a lil excited, just a little, but was quite annoyed with the ending. ...more
Joni
Feb 03, 2015 marked it as to-read
Beth
Feb 13, 2015 rated it liked it
Christie
Feb 24, 2015 marked it as to-read
Colleen
Mar 02, 2015 marked it as to-read
Jackie Laney
Mar 11, 2015 rated it liked it
Janice Milliken
Mar 28, 2015 marked it as to-read
Genna
Mar 21, 2020 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: mystery, 2020, adult
Maria
Apr 07, 2015 rated it it was ok
Nicki
Apr 07, 2015 marked it as to-read
Lindsay
May 12, 2015 marked it as to-read
Sundus
May 13, 2015 rated it liked it
Melanie Parlette-Stewart
May 23, 2015 rated it really liked it
Jessica
May 26, 2015 rated it really liked it
Misty
Jun 22, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: audiobook, gca-2015
Alison Hess
Jul 06, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shannon
Jul 11, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: book-club
Jessie
Jul 14, 2015 rated it really liked it
Beth
Jul 21, 2015 rated it really liked it
Laurie
Aug 01, 2015 rated it really liked it
Diane
Aug 24, 2015 marked it as to-read
Tyler
Sep 18, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Janene Murphy
Nov 17, 2015 marked it as to-read
Jill
Dec 26, 2015 marked it as to-read
Kelsey Frost
Dec 31, 2015 marked it as to-read
Natalie
Jan 12, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition