The Girl on the Train

“There's something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home” (p. 2). Paula Hawkins starts the novel off with reflections from a character that prove to hold more weight and irony than serving as merely one of Rachel's many reflections while riding the train and observing strangers living their lives in their homes alongside the tracks. Hawkins uses Rachel and perspectives from other characters to unfold a story of intrigue involving a missing person and the brokenness that lies behind what may seem to be even the most seamless of veneers to an outside observer, such as the girl on the train.

This book was a page turner, revealing more and more about and from each character, unraveling a tangled web, providing context for how and why each character is as broken as he or she is, and revealing there are consequences for the things we do, whether these repercussions catch up to us now or later.

Ready to watch the movie now that I've read the book and am hoping to see the same amount of suspense, overlapping of stories, and complexity of characters that made this such an interesting read.