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dugoutdug23's review against another edition
4.0
The storyline weaves back and forth between several main characters. A husband and wife who lost a young child due to an accident while under her Aunt’s care, the drunken Aunt and her son Daniel, the Aunt’s elderly next door neighbor, a young woman who was in an accident as a child and now walks with a limp and is off a bit mentally and a frumpy middle aged woman who escapes whom a murderer as a teen.
What is the center of all of them is the murder of Daniel on a barge boat on the river.
What is the center of all of them is the murder of Daniel on a barge boat on the river.
katydid_karaoke's review against another edition
3.0
The story was very good but it didn't keep me guessing the same way The Girl On The Train did. I also thought some of the side stories were distracting and unnecessary.
shanna_banana_reads's review against another edition
3.0
This book was well-written and clever, and kept my interest enough that I wanted to know what happened. I was also surprised by the ending. However, the large cast of characters and points of view, as well as the story within a story and multiple disparate timelines was often confusing and frustrating. The title was apt though and the themes explored were thought-provoking.
nweem218's review against another edition
4.0
A lot like Girl on the Train. Look over there... no no... look here. Wait - there's this guy and sisters and crazies and snoopy old folks - wait who? Who's married to him? Who's the mother of the dead guy? MANY characters right off the bat- It could get confusing - like The Girl on the Train.
But a good story overall.
But a good story overall.
tex2flo's review against another edition
4.0
Common link: despair
This is a complex mystery where the characters are fully intertwined. The central theme seems to be despair: despair of economy, despair of injury, despair of loneliness, despair of grief.
I lost myself a few times between the different female characters. They are so mixed and related, both, geographical and familial, that who was whom sometimes drifted.
This is a complex mystery where the characters are fully intertwined. The central theme seems to be despair: despair of economy, despair of injury, despair of loneliness, despair of grief.
I lost myself a few times between the different female characters. They are so mixed and related, both, geographical and familial, that who was whom sometimes drifted.
meags816's review against another edition
1.0
meh
Didn’t like this one at all really. No sympathetic characters, mostly unlikeable and annoying. A bit confusing at times as well.
Didn’t like this one at all really. No sympathetic characters, mostly unlikeable and annoying. A bit confusing at times as well.
jjoslin322's review against another edition
3.0
For whatever reason, I just couldn’t get into this one.
kristiejean's review against another edition
5.0
Another page-turning thriller from Paula Hawkins. Entwined plots and characters that are brilliantly flawed. I wish I had liked Into the Water as much as The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning, but Hawkins is a must read author for me!