Read The Woman in the Window A Novel Audible Audio Edition A J Finn Ann Marie Lee HarperAudio Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 13 hours and 42 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher HarperAudio Audible.com Release Date January 2, 2018 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B0773RQL4M

The Woman in the Window A Novel Audible Audio Edition A J Finn Ann Marie Lee HarperAudio Books Reviews

• This book is like a trip through IKEA. You need one little thing, but once you find it, you realize its taken you two hours to find what you're looking for and now it's going to take you that long to get to the exit. And you have to plow through even more floors full of crap you were never interested in to begin with. Only this is worse, because you are trapped in the massive building with people you don't want to have anything to do with. It's not worth the trip. Don't even start.
• I never give up on a book.....until this one came along, that is. According to the synopsis, this sounded like a good story idea. For the life of me, I can't imagine this one being a best seller. I guess I am not the only one who reads a synopsis and thinks the book is bound to be good. Well, believe me, from now on, I will read the sample before I buy the book. Just a bunch of chopped up phrases, that don't even make sense. I guess there is still hope for me writing a best seller. I believe even I could do a better job; after all, I am only 88 so I guess there is still hope. I will just get some of my good friends to write a glorified synopsis for me and WHOOPIEE!!! I might even get a Puliizer Prize.
• It's a sad commentary on the state of contemporary fiction when a book this bad is not only a best seller, but an acclaimed one. It starts off well, but quickly becomes boring, and its two "shocking revelations" are obvious from the beginning. Finn is a completely inept writer (his use of language is hilariously bad), and I find myself truly angry that I spent $13.99 for his execrable work.
• I was not a fan of this book. An alcoholic pill popper who somewhow, while online, always said and did the right thing, but in real life was a mess. A lame twist at the end finished the book quickly and made no sense. The middle of the book dragged. I am not hard to please with books but this just didn't do it for me.
• This book was dissappointing, considering how much hype it has generated. It seemed to be following the way Girl on the Train was written, but never got going for me. I ouind the repetitive description of the main character, Anna- pouring wine, drinking wine, sloshing wine, spilling wine on her robe, putting her robe on or her robe falling open- very tedious and boring. It wasn't like I needed it to be described for each day, as it was always the same for her. Every day. As i was reading, I wondered if the author was copying and pasting these descriptions over and over when he talked about Anna's daily intake of wine and then her sloppy behavior. The story was kind of interesting, but I found the descriptions to be too redundant. Another reader said it well when she said that the book could have been much shorter.
• This is a dark, atmospheric thriller that in the first 40% of the book had me completely captivated. Anna Fox is absolutely fascinating and rather humorous. She is unreliable and she is, of course, an alcoholic. You can’t have a psychological thriller these days with a sober person, can you? It would certainly break formula, but I digress.
  
  The reason this book ended up being 3.5 stars for me is because it is simply too long. The first 40% or so, I was completely enraptured, couldn’t put the book down and invested on the development. Then things sllllloooooowwwwwed waaaaaayyyyyy dooowwwwwwnnnnn. There was a lot in there, but this book could have easily been 100 pages less and still told the same story. The ending picked up and some of the twists definitely got me.
  
  I can see why this book has generated such buzz and is already being talked about as the “It” read for 2018. But for me, it dragged too much for it to be a stand out thriller. This is the type of story that doesn’t need filler pages, you can just tell it from start to finish and give me the 1 – 2 punch.
  
  I would recommend this book, as I mentioned, it is sure to be highly buzzed about, so I recommend you give it a go and see what you think. Maybe it is just me who thought it was too long
• I heard that this novel was the breakout debut novel of 2018, written under a gender-neutral pseudonym by a male editor of thrillers at a major publishing house. It was, reviewers said, steeped in film noir, well written, fast paced, original, and a love letter to classic Hitchcock films. It has, of course, already been optioned as a film, probably starring Reese Witherspoon.
  SIGH.
  I read thrillers regularly, and have read all of the classic mysteries (including every Agatha Christie novel, all of Sherlock Holmes, Dorothy Sayers, et al.), and I assure you that The Woman in the Window is a typical domestic thriller. The protagonist is unreliable, she’s a tortured soul, she’s an alcoholic downing buckets of Merlot and popping pills left and right, she’s a pathetic and dull basket case who can’t leave her sprawling home and spends all day on the internet, drinking, and spying on her neighbors. She thinks she witnesses a crime but can’t rely upon her sad, wine-soaked brain; hence no one buys her rantings about the neighbors trying to whack one another. Or not. Blah blah.
  It bores me simply typing up the plot summary of this novel, which amounted to nothing more than a Rear Window/Girl on the Train copycat. I understand that unreliable female narrators sell, but please give readers some credit. We’re not total dupes. More importantly, we are sick of these women who can’t get their sh1t together and are always drunk and falling apart. Give us a female narrator with some grit, some backbone, some moxy, and drop her into a truly original and engaging story. It may not become a bestseller (God knows why not), but it will certainly earn 5 stars from this disillusioned reader. I’ve reached my limit of recent lame thrillers.