I am realizing that perhaps I really ought to stop reading the "It Books". I keep reading them and I keep not liking them. It's not a question of my being disappointed by the hype, but rather that I genuinely dislike the book. 
 I so wanted to like this book, but I was so not keen on The Girl on the Train. 
 I'm not precisely one who really loves thrillers/mysteries, but there are ones I do like. The premise of The Girl on the Train is amazing. It seemed this would be one of the thrillers I enjoyed. 
 I listened to this by audiobook and I honestly think that the narrators are responsible for me liking it as much as I did. 
 I tend to care far more about character development than plot. The Girl on the Train is, in my opinion, really short on character. I feel like most of the characters aren't very complex people at all. They're all really just horrible people. 
 Everyone in this book - minus the child, Evie - is an absolutely hideous, horrible, pathetic human being. I'm not the sort of person who can't read books with unlikable characters, I'm perfectly fine with that as long as there's some complexity there. I didn't see any. 
 They also all commit what, in my opinion, is a cardinal sin - they are all really, really stupid. They are complete idiots and honestly, by the book's end, I just wanted them all to die because none of them deserved to live. 
 The protagonist Rachel is the only character whom I could even try to care about. She's had some hard breaks and while yes, she's an alcoholic, it's sort of understandable how she ended up in that place. Yes, she's pathetic and should really try and get herself sorted and, again, is an idiot, but I can sort of hand waive it to deal with it enough to get through the book. Megan and Anna though? Both of them are horrible for no reason and not particularly interesting. Anna in particular comes off as a bit of a psychopath. 
 As I said before, the characters are all completely stupid, make completely idiotic choices and continues to make idiotic choices. I understand that people make ridiculous choices, but when every single character does and continues to do it, at some point, you just throw up your hands and stop even trying to care.