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Starring Brad Pitt and a cavalcade of supporting players including Joey King and Brian Tyree Henry, Bullet Train should be a fun thrill ride to who cares where. A group of trained assassins are thrown together on a fast train through Tokyo with the same goal: securing a silver briefcase. Hijinks, jokes, and choreographed fights ensue with a couple fun cameos thrown in too. Bullet Train isn't going to win any awards, but if you want mindless and easy - Bullet Train is for you.

At the start of the novel, Hannah Jones finds out that the man who murdered her college roommate has died in prison. The book switches chapters from "Before" the murder (ten years ago) and "After" the murder, as we trace the steps of Hannah's first days as a freshman at Oxford, to her present-day life in Edinburgh with her husband Will, as they prepare for the birth of their first child. As the novel unfolds, everything is not as it seems, including the people Hannah counted on as her closest friends. A fairly gripping whodunit, The It Girl by Ruth Ware, is a fun read that doesn't require any heavy lifting on the reader's part.