The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one ni Anna Fox lives alone, a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. 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. Get A Copy. Kindle Edition , pages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about The Woman in the Window , please sign up. Not necessarily about this book, but a question in general. WHY do people who review give a whole synopsis of the book? Don't you think readers already know this? Just a pet peeve. I just want to read the review! I don't care about reading two paragraphs about something I've already read! Lauren B I totally agree. I skip every review that starts by describing the plot.
Is this anything like "Gone Girl" or "Girl on a Train"? Lorelei Yes. There is a current wave of novels with the same premise over and over: women who witness something but are unreliable due to unstable personaliti …more Yes.
You get the idea. If you are looking for something of this intensity that doesn't follow a predictable storyline I can recommend The Child Finder or The River at Night. See all questions about The Woman in the Window…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3.
Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Woman in the Window. Who knows what goes on in a family? Okay, I really don't want to misrepresent this book: The Woman in the Window is a pulpy, fast-paced popcorn thriller. It's not mindblowing or groundbreaking, but it is pageturning goodness. And it was exactly what I needed to get lost in right now. My need to know what would happen kept me turning pages late into the night until I was physically incapable of keeping my eyes open a moment longer.
The Woman in the Window treats a rather obvious plot element as a spoiler for most of the book, so I'll play coy too. It's about a woman called Anna who lives alone ever since separating from her husband and daughter. We're not told the circumstances of the separation, but we do know that Anna has a drinking problem and severe agoraphobia that prevents her from leaving the house.
Housebound and drunk, Anna spends her days spying on her neighbours, until one day she witnesses something shocking in the window of the Russell's home. Everything begins to unravel when Anna attempts to report what she saw, and soon everything is being questioned: Did Anna hallucinate? Is it a combination of alcohol and pills? Can she even trust herself? The chapters are short and hard-hitting, making the fast-moving plot zip by even faster "This is the LAST chapter.
Oh wait, the next is only two pages? Okay, this is the last chapter". I think the author does a great job of capturing both the fuzzy-headed confusion brought on by Anna's alcoholism and the suffocating claustrophobia of staying inside for almost a year. She makes for a pretty great unreliable narrator, and it is easy to feel her frustration when she can't even be sure herself if what she says is completely true. I also really liked how the author included Anna's passion for classic thriller movies.
These offer interesting parallels with her reality and make you question whether something really did happen, or if Anna just saw it in a movie. Plus there's something a bit creepy about all these black and white flicks playing out in the background. The Woman in the Window is the kind of cozy psychological thriller that is easy to gobble up in a sitting or two. I didn't even mind that some things were obvious because the getting there was so damn fun and suspenseful.
I'll be on the lookout for more from Finn. Blog Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube View all comments. My expectations were through the roof! Have you seen all those 5 star reviews? As it turns out, the book doesn't live up to the hype. Yes, it is as addictive as popcorn, I couldn't put it down. But, there are so many disappointing drawbacks that I couldn't rate it a 4 star read. For audio-lovers, do not waste your precious Audible credit on this one.
It is absolute trash. It does not work. In contrast, a similar book, The Girl on the Train is sheer perfection on audio. You know how much I love my unreliable narrators and our girl, Anna, is a doozy.
Although she is terrified to step outside of her home, all kinds of interesting events still manage to take place in her small neighborhood. She spies on the nearby residents out of boredom. She's a regular Gladys Kravitz you know, from Bewitched? We can't trust Anna's narration because she is depressed and suffering from a traumatic event.
And she pops a lot of pills and glugs wine as a chaser. Yeah, her take on the neighbors is suspect at best. All this is great. But, you know those people that use too many words and make simple matters overly boring? AJ Finn is one of those kind of writers.
My patience runs thin with passages like this: Frigid air seizes my body, so raw that my heart feels faint; storms my clothes, sets them trembling around me. My ears brim with the sound of wind. I'm filling up with cold, running over with cold. I think she's cold. The book is so long and repetitive. It has an interesting, yet heavily borrowed upon plot and there are a couple of major twists. The plot twists are predictable, you will see them from a mile away, but it is still fun to see if your hunches were right they will be.
Just one more thing. Finn shoves a ton of film references into the storyline. At first, I loved it. Then, it becomes too much. It's as if he's saying, "I'm not borrowing plot lines, I'm just referencing them. It's all too heavy handed and cutesy, we know what's really going on. There is not a single original concept about this book. Ultimately, underwhelming. Update… Paul and I just watched the movie…..
Great Cast….. Oh well… what did others think of the film? My copy says a film is already in the making. I can definitely see this novel as a movie. It should be good! The book is good. There are a few other reviews about the plot already I enjoyed the premises of this story.
Anna Fox being a child psychologist with a psychological disorder herself was interesting: agoraphobia. I liked Anna I liked Anna as the narrator. She kept me reading through the dark hours of the night. Nothing was ever too chilling or too graphic. The one violent scene was pretty mild for a book like this I never thought Anna was looking out her window - with her camera in hand - just to be creepy.
From the start - I suspected her looking out the window had another element- but nothing to do with the purpose of stalking, per say. EACH of the characters are developed enough - just enough actually - they ride along with us the reader as we are trying to figure what the heck happened: 1.
To Anna 2. To a neighbor The 5 Story house that Anna lives in creates a great atmosphere I always felt that she was level-headed, and playing with a full deck - no matter how much drinking she did For a psychological thriller Some pages only have a few words. Its a fast read! The Woman In The Window is an absolutely amazing debut mystery-thriller. I cannot recommend it enough. How does someone forms the words to illustrate such a perfect passage? The writing is so beautiful.
I am not the type of reader to get hung up on amazing vs. Finn possesses. I will literally read anything this man writes. Being honest, The Woman in the Window is a bit slow to start. We follow Anna through her routine, isolated days for many chapters at the start of the story with few peaks in plot to keep the story exciting.
It is slow paced to start, but not at all dragging and still enjoyable. But of course, one of the absolute best aspects of the book is the immaculate plot. I love a thriller novel that has so many plot twists which all can convince me that the following twist is more believable than the last.
This book was absolutely amazing. I want to recommend it to absolutely everyone. View all 34 comments. Here we have the traumatised, agoraphobic woman on a self-destructive binge of booze and pills keeping watch over her new neighbours and spotting a murder which the police claim never happened.
Alongside that we have a menacing intruder in her house, online friends who may not be quite what they seem, a weird sexual encounter what was that all about? And how many times have we now seen the protagonist's traumatic secret used in other books? I'm afraid I spotted every twist and with so few characters it's not hard to guess the psychopath. It's a shame as Finn writes fluently, but, honestly, I was bored senseless with the agoraphobic narrator and her endless witterings about old films and how many bottles of wine she's drunk each day with her pills.
If you read regularly in the genre, this is a hokey tale that you'll have seen before. I wish I'd resisted the hype. View all 61 comments. I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion but I'm getting a bit tired of reading mysteries where the main female character is an alcoholic. I get it, it makes them unreliable and relatable for some maybe? With that said, I'm usually not too difficult with mysteries. They just have to not do anything stupid racism, sexism In this book, you're following a psychologist who went through something traumati I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion but I'm getting a bit tired of reading mysteries where the main female character is an alcoholic.
In this book, you're following a psychologist who went through something traumatic that left her agoraphobe and Sadly I saw the twists coming and some parts towards the end just didn't feel right. However, I definitely felt like staying home and drinking If you're looking for what others have described as a "popcorn read" then this might be it for you! View all 73 comments. I'm surprised that I actually finished this novel because my patience was gone, girl.
View all 99 comments. Women, girls Sometimes someone let them go. In this case, there is a woman in a window. And, like all of her friends from all those other books, she likes to drink a lot. And, just like her friends, m Women, girls She is so unreliable!
The drinking and the agoraphobia and all! Who can trust her? Who is this A. Finn person and what makes them so special coming out here in with a title and a plot we have all seen dozens of times already? More importantly, how does this A.
Finn person manage to breathe new life into something that I vehemently hate? Now, here I am cranking this book on up to 4 stars like a total hypocrite. I get it. This is a perfect summer read. I read it on a plane, but it would mix well with a beach or mountain. Whatever you wanna do. It is extremely fast paced, edge-of-your-dear kind of stuff. Very light and easy to breeze through. The plot twists and turns although some of the big twists feel like something you already knew are plentiful and press on to the very end.
The ending tire everything up nicely, and while not too jaw dropping, it was satisfying. Finn also got me with the constant classic movie references and Hitchcock stuff. Anyone else feel like watching Rear Window or Vertigo now? I should go back and make a list of all the movies referenced in this thing.
So yeah I enjoyed it. I felt like it was a cut above other psychological thrillers in this day and age. I went in not knowing much of the plot and with an open mind, and I am glad I took the time to knock this one out. View all 53 comments. Nov 07, Miranda Reads rated it it was ok Shelves: audiobook. Big Bois. Everyone's heard of them. The Libraries are full of them. But are they worth it? Click the link for my video review of the big bois in my life. The Written Review: My head was once a filing cabinet.
She's found ways around anything and everything that she needs - whether it be grocery delivery, hiring a handyman or cases of her favorite wine every few months. She will never need t Big Bois. She will never need to leave her house and can get numb the pain as much as she wants. And then, the Russells move in across the way. A father, mother and teenage son.
Anna is immediately struck by how perfect the family is. But then She sees someone - someone who she thinks she knows - crumble to the floor in the Russells' kitchen - dead. And yet, no one believes her. To them, she's just a staggering drunk shut-in. But she knows what she saw.
And she needs to get help - and fast - otherwise the next person could be her. Overall, objectively this one was fairly good. It started slow but picked up. The ending was simply un-put-downable. I quite enjoyed it. But I'm getting really tired of the unreliable narrator with a drinking problem.
It made the book feel predictable, and even the big surprises felt like minor twists because I read the other two books mentioned above. Ah well. It did provide an amusing few hours. View all 27 comments. Agoraphobia usually involves fear of crowds, bridges, or of being outside alone. No grocery shopping, no walks through the park, not even to pick a package from the front stoop.
Anna is an agoraphobic. Her days are filled wi 4. Her days are filled with pills to control her anxiety and other ailments followed by a bottle or two sometimes more of wine to wash it all down. Much to their chagrin. When she witnesses an attack in the home across the street no one will believe her. Not the home owners, not even the police! This book started out very slow for me. Soon I was in full speed thriller mode!
What an incredible ride. Finn had me questioning everyone from Anna herself to a grandmother in Montana! The big finale of a twist was absolutely perfect! This is my favorite kind of thriller!! Highly recommend! Thank you to Edelweiss, HarperCollins and A. View all 90 comments. View all 38 comments. The Woman in the Window suffers from the usual domestic thriller malady: an intriguing premise and a strong start that never quite materializes into a satisfying narrative.
Going in, the first pages grabbed me immediately. Usually it takes me a little bit to get going on a new book, with the initial pages being slow and filled with lots of setup, but no such problems exist here. The beginning was fast-paced and filled with riveting tidbits. But then we arrive at the main event, and the book compl The Woman in the Window suffers from the usual domestic thriller malady: an intriguing premise and a strong start that never quite materializes into a satisfying narrative.
But then we arrive at the main event, and the book completely slows to a crawl. From that point onward, no detail is too small or too unimportant to be included. We read about main character Anna walking from room to room, eating cereal, looking out her window, checking her email, and playing online chess.
She also watches black-and-white films one after another, and we are told in detail of their plots and actors. It was so much filler that I often caught myself skimming ahead just to find some sort of action. We are also treated to many pages of rambling narration about Anna drinking several bottles of wine every day while mixing in prescription medicine, then spending the rest of the time telling herself to focus and to think.
She would wonder if she should drink some more or not drink some more. When she is not focused on drinking, she acts like a complete loony, shouting at people and lying to everyone. After all this, she is confused when people don't believe what she says.
Reading about people who make one bad decision after another, trying their darn hardest to sabotage their own life, is not what I consider to be a good time. I kept wishing something bad would happen to the character, just to be spared of any more nonsense.
And this trope seems to be an easy way out. Instead of taking the time to come up with a well-rounded character, why not just make the female an alcoholic, say she's an unreliable narrator, and put "woman" in the title of the book.
And on top of all that, the mystery here isn't all that interesting. I enjoy having the main character figure out what's going on by being clever and putting together the clues.
Instead, this mystery unravels because Anna is eventually told what happened. I felt pretty let down by the end, especially in light of having to read so many pages of utter drudgery to get there. View all 93 comments. But then I came across it on Audible. So I decided to use one of my credits for it. I am starting to enjoy audiobooks a lot more, though I do find them harder to review.
I usually have a ton of post-it tabs in the books I read that help me keep track of things. Anna Fox was once an active child psychologist with a wonderful life. But after a traumatic event almost a year ago, everything changed. She now suffers from agoraphobia. Her home is her entire world…she no longer goes outside. Anna notices a new family has moved into the house across the street.
From everything Anna has seen they look like the perfect family. But of course, looks are often deceiving. Did Anna really see what she thinks she did or is it possible she was wrong? Could she have hallucinated or had a bad dream? To be honest, I had a hard time getting into the story at first. I wasn't connecting to the story and characters as well as many other readers did, which is fine as we won't all love the same books. I think I may have been expecting something different.
I was a bit confused at times and although I eventually warmed up to the story and to Anna, it did take longer than I expected. There were some very good twists, though I did figure out a few things ahead of time.
I did like how everything came together in the end with a twist that I did not see coming. Finn writes next. View all 75 comments. I suppose I did recently say it would be a long time before I read another book with "Girl" in the title. While in this case the word is "Woman", the trendy use of "Woman" in titles lately is just about as bad as "Girl", so it might as well be the same thing. You can download these books in the PDF format which relieves the user from the hassles of downloading the irritating zip or epub formats.
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