Initial Thoughts

The Girl On The Train Review By Sithmi Every day the same. Until today. Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of those houses. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. But then she sees something shocking, and in one moment everything changes. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see: she's much more than just a girl on the train... To be frank, the story was depressing. Thankfully only at the start. It took me one week to get to the 3rd chapter and only then did momentum increase in this book, only then did I finally start getting involved. Before that I felt like an outsider getting a peek of a sad, drunk, unemployed, divorced woman with issues of letting go. Since I’m being honest, I didn...

There's Someone Inside Your House Review By Sithmi Over a year after her parents sent her away from Hawaii to live with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska, Makani Young is still adjusting to her new life. She's made a small group of close friends and even flirted with romance, but her past in Hawaii is still hard to forget. And then . . . one by one the students of her new high school begin to die in a series of gruesome murders. Makani doesn't know who's next on the list. Between this, and a secret scorching relationship with the school weirdo, this school year may turn out to be one to die for . . . literally. The book is a great thriller. There is suspense that keeps you guessing. What was different about this from other thrillers I have read was that, they reveal the killer. And yet the story hasn’t even reached its climax. The book starts off with an eerie odd sentence that immediately has conspiracies swirling. The author, Stephanie Perkins, has...