The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Review
"They are perfect, some gold," Rachel Watson thought, the handsome Jason and striking his wife, Jess. "He had dark hair, a stocky, strong and a protector. He has a distinctive laugh. He was one of a small bird-woman, pretty, pale blond and cut short." Rachel, the main narrator Paula Hawkins novel "The Girl on the Train", obsessed with a partner; they represent him perfect relationship she ever had, or seemed to, before bursting spectacularly.
He could not stop thinking about Jason and Jess, but she did not know them. He only saw them from the window of the train, the one he took every morning and evening on his trip to and from London. The couple, whose real name is Megan and Scott, lived a few houses from the Rachel used to occupy, before his alcoholism poisoned relationship. "They match, they set," reflected Rachel. "They are happy, I know. Those who I was, they were Tom and I five years ago. Those that I am missing, they're all I want."
When Megan is missing, the world Rachel, very chaotic, shifting further away from the center. Does Megan run, or whether she was kidnapped? What men see kissing Rachel Megan one morning? Rachel felt that he was not able to get away, and he was trying to deal with the growing addiction to alcohol and his frequent memory lapses.
Difficult to reveal too much about the plot of The Girl on the Train; like all the thriller, which is best for the reader to dive in spoiler-free. This novel is perfect and very alluring, ranging from touch ends; it is a very cool book to read.
Additionally, Hawkins is a smart person, in the novel
The Girl on the Train is he makes every plot thriller works, and each plot with characters that attract, but the people we met in
The Girl on the Train beautifully drawn. Alternative points of view of three characters: poor, obsessed Rachel; charming, Megan complicated; and Anna, Rachel ex's new love Tom.
Alternately viewpoint is complicated prospects; can easily come off as unnecessary or attract attention. But Hawkins using expert techniques, provide enough away each chapter. None of the revelations in
The Girl on the Train neat, and the picture will be much gloomy before the mystery is resolved. Many of the complexity of this novel is as Rachel, a very unreliable narrator with a tendency to pass out drunk, forget everything that happened the day before.
Writing Hawkins' very good, and also cinematic, in the best possible way. Not read the novel (as many thrillers do) such a scenario that has struggled kicking and screaming into prose. But the story, to the title, is undeniably Hitchcockian, and in some scenes, Hawkins seems to pay tribute to the director in the film image as a stranger on the train and Rear Window. Ending play out like a movie scene - perhaps a little too much like one, although it is easy to forgive a little melodrama when prose that leads to it is so dense.
But what really makes
The Girl on the Train like a gripping novel is an incredible understanding of the Hawkins' of the limits of human knowledge, and the extent to which memory and imagination can become confused. Reflecting his fellow passengers on the train ride daily to and from London, Rachel thought, "I recognize them and they might recognize me. I do not know if they see me, though, to what is really me." They do not, of course, and they could not. It is quite difficult - perhaps impossible - for someone even to see himself for what he is.
