I might have enjoyed this more if I hadn't read [b:The Girl on the Train|22557272|The Girl on the Train|Paula Hawkins|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1469460259s/22557272.jpg|41107568] earlier this year. Perhaps I only have room in my heart for one alcoholic girl who suspects she's witnessed foulplay, but I spent a lot of this book being annoyed by, not feeling sympathetic for whatshernameLo, and I think it's because I had already been through this with Rachel. My friend who read this first and then watched the Girl on the Train movie that just came out, had a similar response in that she was sympathetic towards Lo but couldn't stand Rachel. So I do think it has something to do with how similar the characters, and the storyline to an extent, are.

Perhaps had I read this first, it would have been a 3 or so for me, but I just never got into this, and I spent a lot of time being annoyed at Lo. Take a fucking ambien if you can't sleep. How about you stop drinking every single night? Actually, I was turned off by the first chapter because I wasn't expecting that attack, and I honestly almost put the book down at that point, so I think things just never got better for me. The book itself is probably fine, it just wasn't for me.