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Are you trying to decide what book to read next? Want to know more about what your friends are reading? Well, you've come to the right place.  Here you can find book reviews from Nassau County library staff members, and you can share your feelings about particular books in the comments.  Let us help you find your next favorite book today!

The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins

3/4/2015

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Rachel rides the train into and out of London every day, the train often stopping by a house on the tracks where Rachel can see a lovely young couple and imagine their wonderful life together.  One day, Rachel sees the wife kissing a man who is not her husband, and soon after, the wife goes missing.  Rachel is sure that this mystery man had something to do with it, so she decides to go to the police and tell them what she knows.  But as she gets more involved with the investigation, it becomes clear that Rachel's life and the things she’s telling the police and the reader aren’t exactly what they seem.

This book reminds me a bit of Gone Girl, in that the narrators are completely unreliable and what seems to be the story at the beginning is turned on its head by the end of the novel.  A lot of the pieces of the mystery puzzle are hidden behind the narrators’ lies and misconceptions, but the truth comes out, slowly at first and then building to an exciting ending.  If you like a story where you don’t really know what’s going to happen until it happens, this is a book for you.

--Alison McCarty, Callahan Branch Library

Find The Girl on the Train in the Nassau County Public Library System catalog.

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