Candice

For those who likened this to Gone Girl. Well done. I had to force myself to finish Gone Girl and can say the same for The Girl on the Train. The ending of Gone Girl was at least a twist, this was more of an “oh, ok. Is the book over now?”.

All I could think while reading this book was: 1) I know people who would act this neurotic and behavior like this is the reason they're not a part of my life. 2) This is why guys think women are insane. And before anyone asks if I even finished the book yes. Yes, I finished the book. And the end (ending of the book) does not justify the means (chapter after chapter of whiny, crazy, drunk and annoying).

If you loved Gone Girl; go for it. For me, this book was only good for wasting time in an airport with no other option available to read.

From a technical aspect the book is great. However, for the side of me that wants a novel to entertain, this was not it. Many chapters had the same enjoyment as the chapter from the Grapes of Wrath about the ants crawling on the turtle. They seemingly added little to the story. Other times the story seemed to drift away from Alan Turning and more to the technology as a whole. Yes, I understand that the reader needs to know what was going on, but the meat of the story sometimes didn't seem to focus on its subject. Overall,I enjoyed it, even if it was a bit long at times.