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A review by katiedermody
Girl on a Train by A. J. Waines
And now, a lesson on doing your research, by Katie.
Scene 1: Scene opens on a woman, late twenties, choosing a new audio book and stumbling (figuratively) across Girl on a Train. "I never saw the movie but I heard the book is better, so maybe I'll listen to this," she thought to herself, knowing she was very late to the party since the hype around this story had long died down and she still knew next to nothing about it.
Scene 2: Scene opens on same woman, halfway into the 9 hour long audio book finally clueing into the fact that this is NOT the book she thought it was, but an entirely different novel by a different author, simply baring a similar title.
FIVE HOURS, people... it took me almost five hours to realize it wasn't the book the Emily Blunt movie was based on.... and it only happened because I thought "I feel like this isn't going into anything I remember from the movie trailer... maybe I'll google the differences between the book and the movie" and discovered that the main character had a totally different name!
Aside from this book not being the one I anticipated, it was actually quite good and still filled with mystery and intrigue. This one is about a woman on a train who finds out the girl who had been sitting next to her later threw herself in front of said train but had put her locket in the first woman's bag to draw her into the situation and solve the conundrum. Sorry that is convoluted and yet vague... the story reveals key points in its own way so I don't want to ruin anything. I will say that part 2 has a different narrator from parts 1&3, which I loved, the audio book has an excellent narrator. Also, OH MY WORD I did not see the ending coming!!
Scene 1: Scene opens on a woman, late twenties, choosing a new audio book and stumbling (figuratively) across Girl on a Train. "I never saw the movie but I heard the book is better, so maybe I'll listen to this," she thought to herself, knowing she was very late to the party since the hype around this story had long died down and she still knew next to nothing about it.
Scene 2: Scene opens on same woman, halfway into the 9 hour long audio book finally clueing into the fact that this is NOT the book she thought it was, but an entirely different novel by a different author, simply baring a similar title.
FIVE HOURS, people... it took me almost five hours to realize it wasn't the book the Emily Blunt movie was based on.... and it only happened because I thought "I feel like this isn't going into anything I remember from the movie trailer... maybe I'll google the differences between the book and the movie" and discovered that the main character had a totally different name!
Aside from this book not being the one I anticipated, it was actually quite good and still filled with mystery and intrigue. This one is about a woman on a train who finds out the girl who had been sitting next to her later threw herself in front of said train but had put her locket in the first woman's bag to draw her into the situation and solve the conundrum. Sorry that is convoluted and yet vague... the story reveals key points in its own way so I don't want to ruin anything. I will say that part 2 has a different narrator from parts 1&3, which I loved, the audio book has an excellent narrator. Also, OH MY WORD I did not see the ending coming!!