Author: A.J Finn
Rating: 4/5
Right off the bat, The Woman in the Window (TWITW for future reference) is very much similar to The Girl on the Train (TGOTT) and The Woman in Cabin 10 (TWIC10), so if you’ve read those titles and enjoyed them you’ll absolutely enjoy TWITW. If you didn’t read either of those titles, but you liked this book then ya know, go check them out too!
We’ve got the woman, Anna Fox, who suffers from agoraphobia and enjoys watching her neighbors through the lens of her DSLR. She knows everything from one neighbor’s extra marital affairs, to what book another neighbor has chosen for their next book club discussion. To pass the time she plays chess online and also offers counseling to others who suffer from agoraphobia via instant messaging. So naturally when new neighbors move in next door, Anna is all over watching them through the windows. With that being said, I did not find this book to be super suspenseful or shocking. The beginning was painstakingly slow to get through, but by the middle (about 150 pages deep) it became quite the page-turner. Were there parts of the story that were so unbelievably obvious that my 10 month old could have guessed it? Absolutely. So as I said before, the shock factor was definitely not there. Finn still had a way with words that made me trudge on and finish within 4 days. Some of my favorite parts of TWITW that kept me interested were the plethora of classic movie references. Kind of makes me want to put on an old black and white movie, pop some popcorn, and pour myself a glass of wine (something Anna also enjoyed, maybe a little too much). I also really liked the whole agoraphobia aspect. I went to school for psychology and specialized in the mental health field so I reeeeeally love when I pick up a good book that incorporates mental illness (correctly) into the plot. I’ve read some books that portray mental illness very poorly, but Finn did not displease. KUDOS TO HIM. I think for those reasons I will definitely be looking forward to more from A.J Finn.
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