I was given this as a Christmas present and I was fairly
intrigued because I’ve heard so much hype about it. It’s been on posters and
then there was the film so I thought this would be a good time to see what all
the fuss was about.
It’s one of those books that has got a lot of twists. It has
you looking in one direction and then you realise you’re looking completely the
wrong way. Sometimes I like that kind of thing, but I don’t massively like
unreliable narrators.
So the story is told by three narrators, Rachel, Anna and
Megan. They are all connected in some way. Anna married to Rachel’s ex-husband
Tom, and Megan lives a few doors down from Tom and Anna. Rachel can see into
the lives of Megan her husband Scott when she travels into London on the train
each day.
Then Megan goes missing and Rachel thinks that her viewpoint
from the train might be helpful for the investigation. And that’s when everything
starts to unravel.
Part of the reason I didn’t like it more is that I don’t
like books where there isn’t at least one character that I can hold onto as
sane and reliable. This book didn’t have that and I find characters who are
spiralling down quite stressful, hence my need for a sensible character to
cling on to.
It is gripping and I got through it very quickly, mainly
because I wanted to know what had happened. I had pretty much worked it out
before it ended though, although there was one twist I didn’t see coming. EG
read it after me and worked it all out by about half way through so I suppose
you might be entirely different.
What was nice was knowing a few people who were reading it
at roughly the same time. Interestingly none of them liked it. I even had to
just tell one of them how it ended so as to put him out of his misery.
If, like me, you missed out on this when the hype was big
then I would say have a read and see what you think. It’s been a bestseller so
maybe all those people are right.
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