LOVED IT, never gonna read it again.

This is the kind of book that is great to read once, but no to read again, because knowing the end kinda spoils the fun.

I think Paula Hawkins described perfectly the day-to-day life of train commuters. Leaving the suburbs for the big city every morning, passing through other suburbs and looking here and there through the window, at a fraction of a second of someone else's life. The novel she created is both realistic and completely mad. This is something that could totally happen, yet seems unbelievable in it's complexity.

Now, onto the spoilers:

I KNEW IT! After about 70% of the novel, I was (rightly) convinced that Tom had done it. I didn't know the full extend of it, but I suspected he also was a manipulator.

All through the story, I found myself wanting to help and protect Rachel. Megan and Anna had it rough, I am not denying that. I am not denying that Megan had a terrible ending either. But I feel Rachel had it worse, in a way. For years, she thought she was an alcoholic with a double personality, one of which would come out only when she was drunk. She fell further into alcoholism because she thought she was beyond saving. All of her troubles happened because her husband was a pathological liar and a manipulative asshole who can't satisfy himself with one woman to love.

I felt even worse for her, since no one seemed to want to help her at all. Everyone just assumed she was crazy, since she's an alcoholic, yet nobody cared to help her through it. Even Cathy, who was the closest to a real friend she had, didn't take any actions to help her through it. I think that denotes a real problem in our society.