After reading it, I couldn't understand why all the accolades. I found it slow moving and pretty boring. The characters were flat, not much description and never found any suspense.

I did not really like this story. Not much of a "suspenseful thriller." It seems to me that the author unfairly makes an unlikely character the murderer, after building interest in two other men, leaving their story unexplained.

I rated this higher than it probably deserved--just one of those books that hit me the right
way. A chronically relapsing, self-pitying alcoholic voyeur as sleuth way suspensefully appealing.

Down and out alcoholic, Rachel, can’t keep out of her ex husband’s entanglements and finds herself an unwitting witness. Character driven to a fault. Rachel’s the only one you feel for, but lacked fluidity of Gillian Flynn or Tana French. More like a low brow Sophie Hannah with perfect, simple vocabulary. Liked the train, but loved the weather - rain - mentioned very little, but played a big part.

This book caught my eye. I am a little intolerant of alcoholics...but this was a really good read.
I haven't seen the movie, so must watch it! I would have thought the story line would be difficult to portray and do justice to the book.

I checked out this book on a whim and had more or less forgotten about it. I was not particularly eager to read it but thought I had better given I needed to return it soon and hadn't yet cracked it.
This may be way I found the first half particularly difficult to get into. However, the second half of the book was absolutely enthralling and I could not put it down until I had finish.
I would file this under psychological thriller.
I would NOT recommend this book to anyone who is recovering or trying to recover from alcohol abuse, or domestic violence or abuse as it has strong imagery on these topics and I imagine could trigger someone quite easily.

A page turner for sure! For anyone who likes to read from the thriller genre, this book is excellent. I was coming up with different theories while reading through it right up to the final reveal.

This was adequate, not great storytelling or writing in my opinion. I would not re-read this one.

Before reading this, I actually had a teacher warn me that there was a lot of intense, mature content in here. As a teen reviewer/reader, I guess it may have been heavy at moments and not so much others due to my, as others call it, high level of maturity. I found the parts Rachel narrated a bit hard to read at times due to her constant struggles with her problems, and her attitude. However, the author kept the mystery wrapped up so well that I felt engaged enough to keep reading. I can see why this book has gained as much attention as it has. Overall, the language was okay, and plot was a good combination of revealing and interesting.
- @Siri of The Hamilton Public Library's Teen Review Board

A very average novel. It's kind of like an airplane movie; pretty average but you'd read it because there's nothing else to do. Examining the effects of alcohol abuse was fairly interesting at first, but after a while the book was just so slow that it was painful to read. After all the hype about this book, I was disappointed that it didn't live up to expectations.