THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

Between the second and the third term I've read the book called The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins, which was quite popular about two years ago. By then it caught my attention, because I felt it was the mystery type of books I like, and now that I've read it I can say that I was right.

The book is about a girl, Rachel, who is having problems with many aspects of her life, which lead her to start drinking too much alcohol, and this caused her even more problems. Everyday she catches a train that stops for some minutes in a stop which is near her old house, where she lived with her husband and where now he lives with her new wife and their baby. When the train is stopped, she sees a couple in their house and they seem like the perfect couple. One day she sees the girl of the couple, Megan, kissing another man, and the next day she sees on the news that she is missing. She remembers being around that neighbourhood that night, but as she was drunk, she can't remember what happened and what she saw. That's why, when they found the dead body of the girl, she starts to try to solve the case by remembering what happened that night. 

The book is very intriguing and makes you want to now what happened, specially at the beginning and at the end. At the beginning you want to know if the girl is dead and when you know she is, you start to wonder who has been the killer. Maybe in the middle of the book things start to get a little bit monotonous, because it's all the time Rachel trying to figure out what happened and getting drunk. But when you are getting close to the end, you are willing to know what happened and when she finally remembers what really happened, there are some really tense and thrilling scenes.

After reading the book, although I liked the ending, I thought of an alternative ending. It would be Rachel discovering she was the one who killed the girl. I thought it could be possible at the beginning, but then when I continued reading the book I didn't thought it would end like this. But actually it could be possible, because Rachel was drunk and didn't remember what she did, and she could have had a reason to kill her: jealousy. She saw the couple from the train and they seemed so happy, while she was depressed, coping with alcohol and alone after her husband had cheated on her with another woman, and formed a family with her. Also, when Megan disappeared and Rachel wanted to know what happened, she went to see Scott, Megan's husband and started to get close to him. So she could have been jealous of the perfect life Megan had with Scott, which lead her to try to steal Megan's life by killing her and approaching to Scott. Also, as the girl went missing the day after Rachel saw her kissing another man, she could have been very angry with her for cheating on her husband, because Rachel suffered that from her husband, and killed her. 

As I said, this is a possible alternative ending, but I liked real one and I liked the situations it lead to, because they were very tense and different from what you thought during the book.