Even if the prestige trappings were stripped away, even if this were told in a more fittingly lurid, or at least less affected way (Wright’s one strange giallo touch is embarrassingly misjudged), the actual mystery that Anna has to unfold is surprisingly pedestrian. Sometimes books are not up to our expectations, and this was the case regarding The Woman in the Window and me . The plot twists and turns (although some of the big twists feel like something you already knew) are plentiful and press on to the very end.

Thriller reviews: The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn; The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld; The Feed by Nick Clark Windo". I had “The Woman in the Window” on my list to read, but thought it would be awhile before I got to it. When she is not focused on drinking, she acts like a complete loony, shouting at people and lying to everyone. I felt like the whole story took a little too much time to play out—there were only so many times I could handle Anna's drunken binges, her not being believed by those she trusted, and her intense paranoia, which pushed everyone away.Even though the plot was interesting, we have to conclude that this is just another poorly written book that tries to exploit our love for thrillers.

While in this case the word is "Woman", the trendy use of "Woman" in titles lately is just about as bad as "Girl", so it might as well be the same thing. Anna is a 38 year-old child psychologist with agoraphobia, who hasn’t left her home for over a year. The film’s reshoots were prompted by confused audience reactions to initial test screenings, and it’s easy to understand why they might have struggled to follow the story.

So we had to go back and clarify certain points, but I think also we tried to make sure we didn't oversimplify anything and make things too clear," he added.

The setup is derivative but intriguing and while some of Wright’s touches are overbearing from the outset, it’s slickly assembled (its premiere on Netflix ultimately helps the film look that much better in comparison with the majority of their originals) and Anna’s extravagant, artfully messy home makes for an appealingly dramatic location. She makes for a pretty great unreliable narrator, and it is easy to feel her frustration when she can't even be sure herself if what she says is completely true. I was pretty bummed that I didn't like this book because so far I've heard nothing but good things - people were even saying this story could be in an Alfred Hitchcock film and that's honestly just offensive to Alfred Hitchcock. The premise is a little bit of The Girl on the Train and a little bit of The Woman in Cabin 10 (what is it with these girl/woman/wife titles? And another funny thing after watching trailer, I found out, I forgot some important details about the book so I decided to have a fast re-reading time to remember what I liked about it so much!Complicating matters, her substance abuse and psychological problems make her an unreliable witness and she becomes unsure herself of what she saw. This book hooks you op from the beginning and you start to flip the pages nonstop, resume your reading till the words get blurry and your eyes protest you to stop for having goodnight sleep but you cannot stop because even though you go to bed, the story stay at your head and haunt you in your sweet nightmares. Like Anna, Stewart’s friends are hesitant to believe him, and like Anna, he is vindicated in the end. The Woman in the Window is the kind of cozy psychological thriller that is easy to gobble up in a sitting or two. The makers of the sub-Hitchcockian thriller The Woman in the Window would have you believe that its central mystery has to do with the hows, whys and whos of a grisly Manhattan murder.