The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Get ready for the biggest thriller of 2018... What did she see? It's been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside. Anna's lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of three, they are an echo of the life that was once hers. But one evening, a frenzied scream rips across the silence, and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. Now she must do everything she can to uncover the truth about what really happened. But even if she does, will anyone believe her? And can she even trust herself?

had to mention that i watched the MOVIE yesterday!! amazing. book was (always is) better. read this!!

I really didn't expect to like this book so much, especially because it's another in a recent parade of books whose main characters I found unlikeable and irritating. 😂I often find stories like this predictable, but this one kept me guessing until the end. \o/

DNF at about 1/3 of the way through. Perhaps the most telling thing is I quit just as we got to the murder scene. If you've been bored for the run of the book, and you're still bored while reading about someone being stabbed, it's time to give up.

Evidently this author is a big fat liar and awful person, but the real reason not to read this is it's desperately tedious, with no one to root for. Not only is the main character stupid and dull, with a main character trait of “drinks enough to kill an elephant” (note: not actually a character trait!), we also get treated to a classic “male author describing female character” passage, plus the “hero” of the story going way out of her way to fat-shame her 8-year-old daughter - what? (Also, it turns out that the daughter is actually DEAD, which takes the obsession with preventing her from being chubby to new levels of psychopathic shallowness - must be this author showing his psychological cards, huh?)

The only good thing about this book is it reminds readers to go watch some Hitchcock films.

I like to try to read books that have movies or shows coming out soon, so when I saw that Netflix was making this with Amy Adams in the lead role I grabbed the audiobook from the library.

This was okay. It's an unabashedly Hitchcockian and pulpy thriller, and it does a pretty good job of it. There are twists and turns, and thrilling moments, but there wasn't anything overly inventive or memorable about it. Also the ending was stupid.

I think it'll make for a pretty schlocky movie, but there's enough talent involved that I hope it's a fun thriller at least.

A final note about the audiobook: After it was over there was a segment where the narrator did a Q&A with the writer. I wish more audiobooks did stuff like that.