Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

65 reviews

itsheyfay's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Alcoholism, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Alcohol, Death, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, and Child death

rissafizzy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gaslighting, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Physical abuse

rfaab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Animal cruelty

keijiwolf's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Alcohol, Car accident, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Child death, Infidelity, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal cruelty

ksomers's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

If you like this genre this book will probably be a 5/5 for you!  I liked that the plot twists had enough clues sprinkled throughout the book that helped keep suspense without giving the ending away AND without the plot twists feeling unbelievable.  

I felt like the female detective and the psychiatrists actions don’t totally make sense to me.  The main character was suspected of having a very serious episode of hallucinations and the psychiatrist did very little to intervene.  He can’t exactly just show up on her door step and he had left multiple messages but she could have been suspected as a danger to herself or her neighbors and it didn’t seem to be taken seriously enough by the police or her psychiatrist.  The police brought the neighbors into the house to talk with Anna but not the psychiatrist?  Also the female officer kind of felt like she was there to exist but didn’t act as though she cared about the situation.  She actually came off annoyed that this woman either witnessed a murder OR was having a psychiatric episode.  The officer would need to believe one or the other but I have a hard time believing that she would think that Anna is making it up for fun?  Which is how her character read which didn’t make sense to me.  

I loved the film scenes being used throughout the book - it built tension and echoed some of Anna’s suspicions and fears. 

I wish we saw more of Alistair deteriorating after Ethan kills his mom.  we only really saw him get violent with Anna once in desperation and then Anna mentions him drinking a beer on the couch.  I would have liked to see more of that through Anna’s eyes watching the house but also that’s hard because we only have her point of view so I’m not sure if there would’ve been a believable way to do more than what AJ Finn did. 

 

Definitely would recommend this book ESPECIALLY if you’re in a reading slump!  I couldn’t put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Grief, Alcohol, Death of parent, Mental illness, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, and Stalking

pott's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Bro I loved it until the last plot twist. If they cut it out I honestly might've given at least a 4 but mhej. It's prolly just me liking boring stuff. Otherwise the book was good. Just didn't like the ending that much :<

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content and Murder

beesbookss's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug use, Infidelity, Child death, Ableism, Blood, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Stalking, Mental illness, Car accident, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

mithy's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Murder, Death, Grief, Gaslighting, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Animal cruelty

readinghavoc's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

This book was such a letdown. The concept is so interesting but it takes ~250 pages for anything worthwhile to happen. I feel like the author relied heavily on cheap thrills and shock value (I'm still annoyed that the whole opening is spent setting the scene for a story we never get the rest of. It was fine? I passively enjoyed it? But I think it really wasted its potential. Unreliable narrators can be so fun, but this story felt like the goalposts were constantly moving (not a perfect metaphor, but it captures the feeling). The family being dead was a great shock, and I thought it would be the turning point that redeemed the story, but the constant twists after that just felt really cheap, and the writing on Ethan at the end was so unbelievable that it just took me out of the book entirely. This was 3.5 stars before that. I don't understand what I was meant to walk away from this story with. There was no genuine satisfaction. I wouldn't recommend reading it, it's really nothing special and there are much better books to spend your time on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Car accident, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Car accident, Stalking, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Child death, Death, and Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

hanpan01's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

i really didn’t wanna like this but gosh darn it was good. not giving it 5 stars out of principle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Suicide, Abandonment, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence