Such a convoluted story! The author grips you and you want to know what is happening. At times I felt the need to suspend belief, but persevered to the end.

This is definitely a novel which will grab your attention!

Rachel is married to Anthony, whom she loves very much. However, with there being an age difference and him being very wealthy, there will always be those who regard her as a bit of a gold digger. And then there's his adult daughter, Caroline, who is very much 'daddy's little girl' and knows exactly how to wind him round her little finger. One day, Rachel can stand it no more and tells him a few home truths about his darling offspring, resulting in his slapping her. Fast forward to Rachel wakening from a coma to discover her husband is dead and she is a wealthy widow - but all she can think about is the stranger she made eye contact with on the train . . .

Wow, this is certainly an action-packed read which kept me glued to the pages, desperate to find out what happened next ... and I have to say I didn't expect the outcome! A thrilling read, beautifully written and one I'm happy to highly recommend. 5*.

My thanks to the publisher for my copy via NetGalley; this is my honest, original and unbiased review.

Emma Curtis can do no wrong for me as a devoted reader and she continues to write engaging and highly addictive books that I have to read in one session! The Commuter continues my love affair with her writing and I completely forgot about everything else around me while I read it. Full of red herrings and untrustworthy characters, I was held captive until the last page. Highly recommend l!

I was really enjoying this book until maybe two thirds of the way in, I liked the way we find out what has been happening to Rachel when she had lost her memory. The story was being gradually exposed and it was keeping me gripped. However, I felt the book became too confusing and unrealistic. I do enjoy this author's books I just felt this one fell a little short as the story progressed.

The Commuter is a complex and twisty thriller that I enjoyed.
Rachel is married to Anthony, older and very wealthy, he comes with his adult daughter, Caroline. There is no love lost between the two women and after 12 years of marriage Caroline wants rid of Rachel. Anthony had a heart attack a few months ago and has not been the same since. Rachel tells him some home truths out his daughter and he reacts by hitting her. Rachel goes off to work and meets a handsome man on a crammed train. Weeks later Rachel wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of anything. So what happened between meeting the man on the train and being told that she was involved in a road accident trying to get back to her husband quickly and him being found murdered in their home?
This was a decent thriller, there is some element towards the end of being too good to be true but on the whole it was an enjoyable read. Rachel was a great lead character and was believable making the book come alive more.
I would like to thank NetGalley and Atlantic Books for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

Rachel is in her 30s and married to Anthony who is much older. His daughter Caroline lives with them and is an aspiring actress though mainly out of work. Rachel spends an evening with some friends and receives a phone call from her husband and decides to drive home even though she's extremely drunk. The inevitable happens and she crashes her car and is placed in an induced coma. When she regains consciousness she is told her husband was murdered on the night of Rachel's accident and foolishly says she killed him.. Unfortunately Rachel cannot remember much of what happened in the week or so before the accident, but she has vague recollection of meeting a man on the Tube. Caroline blames Rachel for her father's death and is determined to seek justice for him.

I really enjoyed the first half of this book and there were a couple of twists i didn't see coming but after that it became extremely implausible and Rachel's behaviour was very naive to say the least.. I don't want to give the ending away but it was quite bizarre.

Thanks to NetGalley and the author for the opportunity of reading this.

My thanks to Atlantic Books and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘The Commuter’ written by Emma Curtis in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Rachel is involved in a road traffic accident and is in a coma. When she wakes up she’s told that her husband Anthony was killed on the same day as her accident and the police suspect she’s involved in some way. Rachel has no memory of what happened and can only remember flirting with the good-looking man she met during her commute on the tube-train.

‘The Commuter’ is a psychological thriller of Rachel who lives with her wealthy and much older husband Anthony and his spoilt and bitter daughter Caroline who blames Rachel for her father’s murder. The beginning of the book caught my interest and sounded the kind of book I’d enjoy but then the story went flat, the twists were disappointing and I lost interest, and any incentive to continue reading disappeared. It’s well-written but we’re all looking for something different from a book and not every book suits us all, and from the reviews lots of readers have enjoyed it but unfortunately I’m not one of them and I was relieved when I reached the end.

I liked the premise of this book and the beginning held my attention, then it became more complicated with different POVs and Im sorry to say that I lost concentration and interest in the characters and the plot
Thank you to netgalley and Atlantic Books for an advance copy of this book.

.Thank you for this ARC. My first book by this author, and what a read. The title fascinated me, so I got stuck in. Full of twists and turns, great characters, A great storyline and couldn’t put it down

This book started as a 4 stars for me, it was compelling since the very beginning and as a plus it was a pleasant surprise to discover that it is set in the same area of London I live in!
It was cool to recognise places such as river walks and coffee shops that I myself go to. The Tube line itself is the one I take and I loved seeing how accurately the commute was described: from the backyards of the houses you pass through in Kew to the stretch of Thames you cross, to the old tall houses hovering close the train tracks when you approach Hammersmith.

This was a pretty long book and while the first two thirds were maybe slightly slow and I was expecting a little bit more of a thrill throughout, it was still interesting – unfortunately at about 70% everything drastically started to go downhill.

I spent the first part of the story intrigued and eagerly waiting for some development but half way the story seemed to start going in circles. It is narrated via two different time lines and multi PoV – this is manageable and interesting at the beginning, but towards the end other PoVs are introduced both in the present and in the past and it all becomes very confusing.

I didn't like Rachel and this did not help much, I found her extremely gullible and naive, and completely lacking spine when it came to stand for herself. While at the beginning it was something that made the character fairly realistic (considering her back story), the lack of development by the end of the book made her the complete opposite.
She's shepherded through events without really doing anything active; she stumbles into so many convenient plot devices and twist to make you roll your eyes every other page. I honestly called her stupid more than once.
The whole ending was a big sequence of conveniences (half my notes are like "convenient, isn't it?" or "of course."), full of plot holes and forgotten details (what about that rabbit garden statue? I honestly thought it was gonna have a purpose, if you know what I mean). I could go into more details but it is spoiler-zone so I will leave it.

By the end, the only character I can say I was always invested in was "you", and that's a shame because he's mainly absent. I would have loved him to be a bigger part of the story, but that would have been a different book, the one I was wishing for from the start.

Thank you Net Galley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for a honest review.

Wow this I loved and I knew I would straight away. This is what thrillers should be gripping and full of twists and turns. Yes sometimes we can work things out but if a book is written this well it shouldn’t take away from it loved it !!

I thought the description of this book sounded really intriguing, so I was looking forward to reading it. Sadly, it did not live up to expectations. It was very long and the plot became more and more unbelievable and convoluted as it went on. Also, I didn't find the characters to be very believable or likeable.
Thanks to NetGalley for a preview copy.
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Rachel wakes from a coma to discover her controlling husband has been killed, and the police suspect her of involvement.
But all Rachel can recall from the last few weeks are tantalising flashes of a fellow commuter. A man whose name she doesn't know.

I suppose we all look for different things when we read a novel. Good gripping story, likeable and believable characters and a satisfying end. This novel, sadly fell short for me. As the book progresses it starts telling the story from different timelines and viewpoints which, to me, is annoying. What happened to just telling a story? I realise the changed viewpoints is used to reveal things but the repetition is tiring. It’s a shame because the writing is good. It didn’t work for me.

Rachel wakes up from a coma after a car accident and learns her husband was murdered the same day and she has no memory of the last month, the police think she is guilty of something.
Rachel is married to Anthony a very rich older man and stepmother to Caroline a very spoilt adult who relies on her dad`s money to live a luxury lifestyle.
Was it a happy marriage?
The twists come hard and fast it`s difficult to keep up and who to believe.
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC and I give my honest review.

What a tangled web we weave. A story of how relationships of many kinds affect our lives, some are barely recognised or understood, others can have devastating consequences. Rachel attends an interview and has an immediate attraction to her would be boss. Long, story short they marry. Twelve years down the line with their age difference beginning to show and the tedious bitterness of her stepdaughter dragging her down, Rachel is flattered by the attentions of a complete stranger on her commute to work. It begins an unstoppable chain of events that threaten the stabilty and lives of all concerned. A gripping book that has the reader wondering just who is trustworthy and with manipulative characters aplenty it delivers a dark, fast paced story. A definite page turner and thoroughly recommended.

This gripped me at the start. Told from the perspective of Rachel Gordon who is married to the significantly older but wealthy philanthropist Antony Gordon. Their marriage is somewhat strained in part due to her rather spoilt step-daughter Caroline and Antony's health issues. Despite their wealth Rachel continues to work and it is
on her way to work one day that the tube breaks down. During its stop she meets and becomes infatuated with the mysterious Sean. They embark on a brief but passionate relationship. Before it develops Rachel crashes her car. Upon awaking from her induced coma she finds she has no memory and is greeted with the news that her husband has been murdered.

Caroline is adamant that Rachel is behind the murder while Rachel has no idea what happened. More twists and turns are expertly unfolded as the handsome psychiatrist Dominic enters her life. Can he release her memories and prove her innocence. Will her estranged mother be her downfall when she offers a character assignation to the detective leading the case? And where is the elusive Sean?

It is at this point that Curtis introduces different perspectives and timelines to the plot. While I was still invested in the events I came to dislike the characters Caroline and Dominic intensely. They lacked credibility and depth and the sub plots were not needed. By the final chapters Rachel unfortunately joined them as weak and limp wristed. I so wanted her to be a villainous stepmother strutting her stuff at the end. But sadly this was not to be.

Overall I enjoyed aspects of this and burned through each page. If only the ending lived up to the rest.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ahead of publication.

Very well written psychological thriller that has me turning the pages to find out what was going to happen next
Unlikeable characters made it even better
A strong story and will look up the authors previous books

This one gets slightly confusing somewhere along the lines. The narrative alternative timelines and POVs. There are people you want to shake all throughout. The plot is a little generic and predictable.
However, despite all that, I still found myself really enjoying this book!
It’s really well written actually which is unusual for the amount of psychological thrillers published today with basic and childlike writing.
Despite the sensational storyline and reasonings, it was easy to be floated along with the story rather than dragged and fast paced enough that you didn’t become bored and disillusioned somewhere in the middle.
If the storyline was a little more original I would have given more stars but overall I still do recommend this as an easy and enjoyable read.

Thank you to NetGalley and publisher for the ARC.

I have read all of Emma Curtis books and they are all very good. The Commuter is not my favourite and it did read similar to her previous book ‘Invite Me In’. That said though it is still a great read and I would recommend it.
Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This had me hooked from the first page. A great thriller. I finished this in a day as it was so difficult to put down. My thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for an honest review.