Title: The Woman in the Window
Author: A. J. Finn
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Pages: 448 (Paperback)
Publisher: William Morrow
Publication date: January 2nd, 2018
Publication date: January 2nd, 2018
Synopsis from The Woman in the Window's Goodreads page
Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors.
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare.
What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.
THOUGHTS
Quite a few of my close friends had read this book before me, and every single one of them hyped it up. They all told me that it was really good, but also that it was very predictable. Knowing that, I was hesitant to start it but I knew that due to its size, I would only be able to read it during my reading week, or after the term was over. So I opted for reading week, and I somehow managed to read it in less than 24 hours.
The idea behind this book I found to be really interesting. The main character is an agoraphobic; she can't go outside and stays in her house alone all the time. Cue the new people moving across the street, and she begins to keep an eye on them. An event occurs (not going to say because SPOILERS) and then Anna'a entire world is turned upside down and everyone thinks she's crazy.
Anna herself I loved but I also found quite annoying at times. She's an alcoholic, so a lot of this book was her drinking and being drunk and questioning everything that she does and sees. However, I did love her more than find her annoying; she knew that the event that had occurred across the street happened, and she was fighting everyone to believe her. Even though she is an agoraphobic, she is still resilient and will put up a fight when she knows is right, which I enjoyed.
A lot of the other characters were very well thought out as well. The entire family across the street were very well created and that massive twist at the end I DID NOT see coming; the character was so believable the entire book that he definitely tricked me the whole way through. (That is very vague, but again, spoilers are killer).
I found the plot of this book to be very slow at the beginning. It is over 400 pages which is very long for a psychological thriller, and I found the beginning to lag in places; a lot of the minor things that happened in the first half of the book I found dragged a bit, but overall the book was very well written so the slow parts were punctuated with a lot of action and suspenseful parts.
As a psychological thriller, this was definitely well written. A fair amount of the events that were happening I was able to guess before they did, but a fair amount of other things shocked me because there was no way I was going to be able to guess them. It was fast-paced in the second half, and I was able to read it in less than 24 hours, so it kept me interested even through the slower parts.
Overall - ★★★★☆
The idea behind this book I found to be really interesting. The main character is an agoraphobic; she can't go outside and stays in her house alone all the time. Cue the new people moving across the street, and she begins to keep an eye on them. An event occurs (not going to say because SPOILERS) and then Anna'a entire world is turned upside down and everyone thinks she's crazy.
Anna herself I loved but I also found quite annoying at times. She's an alcoholic, so a lot of this book was her drinking and being drunk and questioning everything that she does and sees. However, I did love her more than find her annoying; she knew that the event that had occurred across the street happened, and she was fighting everyone to believe her. Even though she is an agoraphobic, she is still resilient and will put up a fight when she knows is right, which I enjoyed.
A lot of the other characters were very well thought out as well. The entire family across the street were very well created and that massive twist at the end I DID NOT see coming; the character was so believable the entire book that he definitely tricked me the whole way through. (That is very vague, but again, spoilers are killer).
I found the plot of this book to be very slow at the beginning. It is over 400 pages which is very long for a psychological thriller, and I found the beginning to lag in places; a lot of the minor things that happened in the first half of the book I found dragged a bit, but overall the book was very well written so the slow parts were punctuated with a lot of action and suspenseful parts.
As a psychological thriller, this was definitely well written. A fair amount of the events that were happening I was able to guess before they did, but a fair amount of other things shocked me because there was no way I was going to be able to guess them. It was fast-paced in the second half, and I was able to read it in less than 24 hours, so it kept me interested even through the slower parts.
Overall - ★★★★☆
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