Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

126 reviews

grave_liminal's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Would have been rated higher, around 3 stars, however, the author is a disgusting person. Many people have dropped their ratings on his actions alone. However, the storyline for the book is practically stolen from a movie titled Rear Window. If you are unfamiliar with old films, you will miss  out on a lot of references and they get old after a while. 

For a 430 paged book, the true tense thrill didn’t start until around chapter 92 (roughly about 50 pages until the end) out of 100 chapters. This entire book focuses on the main character’s grief, denial, and severely irresponsible drinking problem. This book is also almost entirely single-location based on the character’s agoraphobia. While the book itself can keep you wondering who’s the murderer, some find it predictable. I also found myself being correct about most of the plot twists. The action in the story is very minimal and slow paced. If it weren’t for wanting to know who the killer was, I would have DNFed it for the pure waste of half the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

haveyseentis's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Car accident

wonderfulxwonderful's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Gaslighting

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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Alcohol

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

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Animal cruelty

madi622's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

if you like a slow-paced thriller this book is for you. the plot twist at the end was quite surprising, i didn't see it coming. the main character anna wasn't exactly my favorite but, i grew more fond of her towards the end of the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Stalking, and Car accident

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

hleary's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, and Car accident

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: Mental illness, Violence, and Car accident

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

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

krystafig's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Child death and Death

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

_marinarasauce's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

5 WHOLEEEEE STARSSSSSSSS and .75 AMAZING SERIOUSLY AMAZING and ppl say like that the beginning is too slow and it takes forever to get good but it gives it more time to introduce the main character and build on her personality and her like instability and it gives her more like unreliability and i watched the movie before reading the book but it was DEFINITELY STILL WORTH IT and since i knew what happened at the end i could pick up on all the FORESHADOWINGGGF LIKE SERIOUDLT THERES SO MANY AND ITS AMAZING and the WRITING IS PERFECT I LOVE IT SO SO MUCH a strong recommend if u liked gone girl and very VERY GOOD IMAGERY AND JUST AMAZING I LOVED IT MY NEW FAVORITE BOOK

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Murder and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicide