"My head was once a filing cabinet. Now it’s a flurry of papers, floating on a draft." Agoraphobic Anna Fox resides in New York City. 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 to leave her house and can get numb the pain as much as she wants. “My dear girl, you cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.” She spends her time o...

Women, girls... they are everywhere, man. They’re in cabins, they’re on trains, they’re in spider’s webs or hornet’s nests. Sometimes they’re gone. Sometimes someone let them go. Sometimes they’re in a group. In this case, there is a woman in a window. She’s not a woman in white or a lady in shadows or a girl who circumnavigated anything. She’s just a woman named Anna Fox 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...

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 a bit for me to get going on a new book, what with those initial pages being slow and setup-filled, but no such problems exist here. The beginning was fast-paced and full of riveting tidbits. But then we arrive at the main event, and the book completely slows to...

5/5 Stars. I am SO BLOWN AWAY BY THIS NOVEL. The Woman In The Window is an absolutely amazing debut mystery-thriller. I cannot recommend it enough.CW: agoraphobia, anxiety, depression, substance abuse/alcoholism, murder, death, griefMy favorite part of this novel is the writing style. A.J. Finn has the perfect sort of prose that forces you to think, “How can someone ACTUALLY think like this? How does someone forms the words to illustrate such a perfect passage?” This book is descriptive in a way...

I'm surprised that I actually finished this novel because my patience was gone, girl.

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?) but it's a cheap way of doing it. With that said, I'm usually not too difficult with mysteries. They just have to not do anything stupid (racism, sexism...), be entertaining and have twists I don't see coming.In this book, you're following a psychologist who went through something traumati...

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.The premise is a little bit of The Girl on the Train and a little bit of The Woman in Cabin 10 (what is it with these girl/woman/wife titles?!), with an unreliable narrator, faulty memories, alcoholism, and the au...

** Possible mild spoilers **Yet another super-hyped 'psychological thriller' which seems to think readers are innocents new to the genre... it's starting to feel like each new author just selects from a pack of established set pieces and gives them a bit of a shake hoping for something original. 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...

Update… Paul and I just watched the movie….. Great Cast….. but much darker - much more gruesome- - didn’t follow the book impeccably at all— and not nearly as good as as the book……My goodness…… they dramatized the violent graphics in the movie - but never fully developed the characters. Oh well… what did others think of the film? Curious. Older original ‘book’ review: NO SPOILERSThis is a solid 4 Stars for me. It’s been awhile since I’ve read a psychological suspense thriller —-a surprise gift i...

3 STARSYou don't know how happy I was to get my greedy little paws on both the audio and Kindle versions of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW. 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 ...