Reviews

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

into_the_forest's review against another edition

There SO many long explanations and talking about fluff or things that don’t add much to the story. I couldn’t take it anymore. It was taking a long, long time to get to anything of substance. 

goldenart95's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

mariyavd's review

3.0

For the first 100 pages didn't grab my attention much. But after that I finished it in one sitting. The story has few plot twists that are not expected (and one that I did expect, but wan't sure enough). There is a lot of addiction, grief, guilt and fobia.

mcdanielp411's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

georgiab03's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

syddevo's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

ashleighyoung's review against another edition

3.0

6/10 - theme of how Ashleigh reads and feels about books: this book was 100 chapters & was uninteresting for 88 chapters, BUT WOW, it was a very good ending, you just gotta get there, bc WOW loved it, lmk if your halfway through it & want me to spoil it, honestly a smidge worth your time

jess_mango's review

3.0

Ok, at last, my thoughts on this. It took me about a year after I bought this one to finally read it. I did find it to be an interesting read with a lot of twists and turns...however it is yet another book, with yet another unreliable female narrator who is a bit too much into drinking. We get it. Lady drinks, lady sees something, lady tells people what she saw...no one believes her. It was a fun read but I couldn't totally get into it...mostly because I could see the twists before they happened and it was all a bit too much for me.

kellysonofjohn's review against another edition

5.0

So many twists and turns and WOW that was thrilling until the very end

fantasynovel's review

4.0

3.5 stars bc it sucked but I still enjoyed it. It could have been SO much better if it had been half as long without all that stupid descriptive language. I don't need 3 sentences describing the way a light bulb flickers. I get it. I've seen light bulbs flicker before. And at one point it turned out that the narrator was lying to us in a way that's not even an unreliable narrator, but an unreliable author doing The Most for her plot twist.

Spoiler

It was obvious that she was hallucinating her husband and daughter, but it would have been so much better if she didn't know she was hallucinating them. Instead she was lying to us for the sole freaking purpose of a dumb plot twist.

But there were some creepy scenes, so whatever.

Edit: This book has stayed with me in a very positive light. Sometimes you have to wait a while to tell how you feel about a book, and I like this one. I mean, That Scene, am I right??