Eva Jurczyk

No WiFi, no distractions. No way out…
 Agatha's husband has bought her a first-class ticket on the scenic six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a gift—a one-day writing retreat so she can get some serious work done on her new book, a highly-anticipated follow-up to Agatha's runaway bestseller debut novel. The first-class car is the perfect place to be productive, with only a handful of other passengers, plenty of snacks and drinks, and beautiful views flying by outside the window.
 But Agatha has other plans for her day out… plans that are unexpectedly derailed when the train breaks down in the middle of the frigid Canadian woods and one of Agatha's fellow passengers dies quietly in his seat. Soon, a pleasant morning in transit turns into a fight for survival against an unknown and unseen enemy. Will Agatha—or any of the passengers—make it out alive?
From international bestselling author Eva Jurczyk, 6:40 to Montreal is a claustrophobic, deceivingly bloody thriller that twists and turns until the very last page. 

6:40 to Montreal

6:40 To Montreal promises to be a thrilling story in close quarters as a snowstorm forces the main character Agatha to spend more time on her train than she anticipated. What I expected to be an edge of my seat kind of feeling, unfortunately did fall a little flat for me. The characters the reader gets to meet were a little bit to off putting and obvious for my taste, the plosttwists were not entirely unanticipated for me personally and while I usually keep powering on in the ever present hope of an ending that suddenly makes me love a book with its twists and turns, this one rather manifested my opinion that this book simply was not for me. 

If you as a reader don’t need to form a connection to the characters like I do, you still might enjoy this one a lot. Maybe I just read too many thrillers of this kind to not be surprised (except by the ending, which … did not help in favour of the book). Maybe I just need to like at least one person I’m reading about instead of finding them all utterly insufferable – it might be me, is what I’m trying to say.

This book is well-written in terms of grammar, choice of words and dialogue – the way chapters were structured was unfortunately not entirely to my taste and I couldn’t help but feel a little bored at times. The conflicts of some people on the carriage felt too inconsequential for me and I had the feeling of small drama blown up way out of proportions. 

This book might be a great choice for people, who are still getting into this genre and don’t want to feel utterly overwhelmed by gore and horror. I think newer readers to thrillers might enjoy this one.  

Leonie

6:40 To Montreal promises to be a thrilling story in close quarters as a snowstorm forces the main character Agatha to spend more time on her train than she anticipated. What I expected to be an edge of my seat kind of feeling, unfortunately did fall a little flat for me. The characters the reader gets to meet were a little bit to off putting and obvious for my taste, the plosttwists were not entirely unanticipated for me personally and while I usually keep powering on in the ever present hope of an ending that suddenly makes me love a book with its twists and turns, this one rather manifested my opinion that this book simply was not for me. 

If you as a reader don’t need to form a connection to the characters like I do, you still might enjoy this one a lot. Maybe I just read too many thrillers of this kind to not be surprised (except by the ending, which … did not help in favour of the book). Maybe I just need to like at least one person I’m reading about instead of finding them all utterly insufferable – it might be me, is what I’m trying to say.

This book is well-written in terms of grammar, choice of words and dialogue – the way chapters were structured was unfortunately not entirely to my taste and I couldn’t help but feel a little bored at times. The conflicts of some people on the carriage felt too inconsequential for me and I had the feeling of small drama blown up way out of proportions. 

This book might be a great choice for people, who are still getting into this genre and don’t want to feel utterly overwhelmed by gore and horror. I think newer readers to thrillers might enjoy this one.  



Our protagonist is Agatha, a writer trying to get some work done on her new book on a train from Toronto to Montreal.

The train gets stuck in a snowstorm and things unravel from there.

The whole story takes place in the first class cabin of the train so there are only a few characters. I wish some of them were more fleshed out, but we only get more depth on Agatha who really is hard to root for. She is so incredibly smug. The pacing in the first half of the book is quite good, but after the second half, Agatha’s memories and thoughts keep pulling you out of the flow of the story. I finished this book but I maybe should have DNFed it, didn’t feel worthwhile to read to the end.

Suzanne

Our protagonist is Agatha, a writer trying to get some work done on her new book on a train from Toronto to Montreal.

The train gets stuck in a snowstorm and things unravel from there.

The whole story takes place in the first class cabin of the train so there are only a few characters. I wish some of them were more fleshed out, but we only get more depth on Agatha who really is hard to root for. She is so incredibly smug. The pacing in the first half of the book is quite good, but after the second half, Agatha’s memories and thoughts keep pulling you out of the flow of the story. I finished this book but I maybe should have DNFed it, didn’t feel worthwhile to read to the end.

6:40 to Montreal

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