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Book Review of The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train
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It's amazing how long the author manages to captivate the reader with the story of an out-of-work alcoholic who spends her time riding trains all day. Each "chapter" is written from a different character's point of view and eventually reveals the identity of a murderer. Due to her personal circumstances, the main character has difficulty sorting out blurry memories from reality, but eventually "comes to" by the end of the book. It is somewhat of a mind-twister, taking the reader down the winding rails of the track to show the perspectives of the characters involved. There is some violence described in the text, along with a few occurrences of bad language.