A review by the_midnight_librarian
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

3.0

For the most part I didn't mind this book, I found it interesting to question if the narrator was trustworthy or not and it put me in this weird mindset of "is anything real?" which was a trip and I appreciated the book because it made me feel that. However, the main character bugged me for the most part. She knew she was doing the wrong things, ie -mixing medication with alcohol but continued to do so, which was infuriating as she told others to follow the recommended medications and to not drink alcohol with them, which to me made her unlikable. But then that twist. That trauma. I didn't blame her for drinking. This actually made me tear up, of dealing similarly to the trauma and finding out that that coping mechanism (not the drinking) was an unhealthy crutch, punched me in the gut. I was thinking the book was going to be a 4 stars or higher after that. No such luck. That ending....was not believable. You had me 'til the reveal. That was a let down and I had a hard time going along with it.