Genre: Thriller
Publisher: HarperCollins Publisher, 2018
Pages: 448
Rating: Recommend
Synopsis: For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house.
It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening . . .
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.
Review: This was somewhere between 3.5 and 4 stars for me (out of a possible 5). The Woman in the Window began slowly, and I wondered when it was going to turn into a thriller. After being pulled into the world of an agoraphobe, and a lot of "Sunday driving," I did get into this book, and it became impossible to put down.
If you're familiar with the old movies that author references throughout this book, then I suppose it will add something to the narrative. I am not, and therefore found them distracting and even annoying.
An unreliable narrator. My least favorite kind. Why? Just why? Reading, reading, reading, and then bam everything you thought you knew, you don't. In this case though, it works.
I'm off my game because the answers to this book were right in front of me the entire time, and I never connected the dots.
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