The Girl on the Train

huh. I kind of get all the hype surrounding this book and then again I kind of don't. And I kind of get the comparison to Gone Girl and I kind of don't.

It's a great mystery - well written, with well examined characters. Granted the characters are all horrible. Not really a single redeeming quality in the whole group. That in a way makes them fascinating. Like watching a train wreck fascinating. Every time we switched to Rachel's POV, all I could wonder was how she could be more self absorbed and how she could possible screw everything up even more. With Anna, I kept waiting for someone to knock her off the pedestal she'd put herself on. And Meagan? Wow. Talk about a hot mess. All of them took their turns in telling the truth and telling themselves lies. All that was very Gone Girl.

Where things started to fall apart for me, was the whodunit portion. I knew the shrink was a giant, flashing neon red herring. And the husband was awfully obvious. Too obvious. So that left Tom. With maybe a slight possibility of some unknown until 5 seconds before the reveal, nobody character. But that was a very slim possibility. So all that was left was the perpetually cheating, slimey, never met a lie I didn't like husband (I'd figured out early on about him and Megan). Between that and the jumping around in time, I just wasn't overly thrilled with this one.