Thrilling and harrowing psychological thriller-Page Turner with a repulsive, but at the same time very fascinating lies braid

Thrilling and harrowing psychological thriller-Page Turner with a repulsive, but at the same time very fascinating lies braid

The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)

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Born in Zimbabwe Paula Hawkins has managed with her debut thriller The Girl on the Train what all writers dream: land directly with the first book a bestseller, which is celebrated by critics and readers alike. From parallels with Gillian Flynn's mega success Gone Girl is the speech and some people even draws comparisons with the works of Alfred Hitchcock's enormous Vorschusslorbeeren So who of course made even with me for very high expectations for the book. And who knows the classic Rear Window Director of the Grand Master, which is probably actually occur somewhat familiar the initial situation of Paula Hawkins novel. However, the protagonist Rachel Watson sits not confined to a wheelchair and equipped with binoculars in her apartment and spied the neighbors, but spins on their daily train stories to get people together who live in the houses along the railway line.

It is quite clear that you did not just do it at Rachel with the mentally stable protagonist. Rachel is heavily addicted to alcohol has on the evening way home always a correspondingly filled bottle in your hand luggage and watched stunned the scenes that rush past her train window. It is for their depressed to depressed state of mind certainly does not help that she passes every day at his former home, is that now occupied by her ex-husband and his new wife with the small child remained that their own earlier always denied is. To escape the pain, Rachel has built around two foreigners an almost delusional dream world: Jess and Jason, the perfect couple with perfect jobs and perfect life. But when Jess suddenly disappears without a trace, breaking even this imaginary idyll collapses, is Rachel but at the same time a drive in their lives, because they really want to know, what happened to Jess.

In keeping with the daily commute the protagonist between suburban and central London, the narrative style of The Girl on the Train is each divided into morning and evening, even when the action actually takes place only in the first chapter while the train itself. Moreover, the story is not confined to Rachel Watson, but will from time to time also from the perspective of two other women told one of them the alleged victim Jess, on whose life you can participate for one year time lag. Not only with these changing viewpoints reminds Hawkins Thriller actually a bit of Gone Girl, also from the tone of the story, the two books are quite similar. Even The Girl on the Train is not a novel in which the characters have even vaguely chance of sympathy prices, mostly converts the attitude towards the characters when reading between pity and contempt: pity, because, for example Rachel wretched state between depression, loneliness and alcohol dependence places is very shocking, and contempt, when they aggravated their situation despite knowing better with other handles to the bottle again and again. The more one learns about the individual involved, the more one becomes entangled in a web of infidelity, lies, envy and resentment, the one on the one hand disgusts but on the other hand also an enormous pull.

And even if you need an experienced thriller readers probably not necessarily to the actual resolution to bring light behind the events, so it is almost impossible in the second half to put the book down. You never know for various reasons whom to trust and just practicing an admittedly disturbing, but extremely compelling fascination and if you have then survived the last page, the faith in humanity is probably a short time already a little shaken, because this Bucheben almost only the bad in the characters to preview brings. But anyone who likes to read psychological relationship thriller of this kind, should be The Girl on the Train but definitely make the comparison with Gone Girl Paula Hawkins wins debut for me anyway clearly.

Good, expensive, cumbersome. Rank: 2/5
October 1
Arca-Swiss compatible Rank: 5/5
September 15
Perfect for night use Rank: 5/5
January 9
fine 1177 Rank: 4/5
December 27

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