4.25* 
 This book was a quick read that left you guessing what exactly the outcome was going to be. I've read some reviews where people said they saw the ending coming, but I certainly didn't until the last 20-25% of the book. This is definitely the kind of book that I needed to read toward the end of my school year - something fast paced that didn't force you to think a whole lot. I like to call these kinds of book bubble gum for the brain. There isn't a whole lot of sustenance there, but it sure tastes good for a short period of time. 
 None of the characters in this book were remotely likeable. In some ways, I was able to see why it was first compared to Gone Girl when looking at it through that lens. However, Gone Gone was written much differently and with more prowess than The Girl on the Train. As soon as I would start to feel any sympathy or empathy towards a certain character, my feelings would be ripped away from me by the author and I was shown the character through a completely different scope and was forced to readjust my thinking and feeling about them. I still don't know if I was even supposed to like the main character, Rachel, because of certain ways that she was portrayed. Even Megan, the character who died (calm down you find out she died in the first couple chapters) was difficult to find much sympathy or empathy for based on certain decisions and actions she made throughout the story. 
 I enjoyed Paula Hawkin's writing style and story telling style (there is a but in here though). The changing between three different girls' points of view made for a fast read, however, (and here's the 'but') I couldn't tell them apart. Each girl felt the same to me. Yes, each girl had their own separate set of issues that they were working through, but when I new chapter would begin and if I didn't read the name at the top of the chapter, I wouldn't have had a clue whose point of view I was reading through. I just got finished reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan which has changing points of view each chapter and if I had not read the name of the character at the top of those chapters, I would have been able to tell right away whose perspective the story was being told in. These three girls seemed to have the same exact personality (which was clearly not the case based on how each girl perceived the others). If we are able to see the differences in personality through each character's point of view, why can I not tell the characters apart through the author's writing style? This was the thing that probably irritated me the most - that if I put the book down and picked it up an hour or more later, I would have to go back (and using a Kindle that can sometimes become irritating) to figure out whose perspective I reading through again because what the characters were doing or how they were written was not always obvious upon picking it up again. This is probably what ended up dropping the book by almost a full star for me. 
 But even so, Paula Hawkins was able to weave a mesmerizing story that I found difficult to put down. Its fast paced nature and the change of points of view throughout the book kept things moving forward at a pace that made me want to keep going until I found out everything. I would love to see what else Paula Hawkins puts out in the future and would definitely read another book by her.