The Woman in the Window

 

I may get some hate for this but I saw a movie trailer for The Woman in the Window when I saw Little Women in the theater last year. Ever since then I have wanted to read the story but had to work up my courage to since it looked a bit scare jump at times. The Woman in the Window is the first book I have read based on seeing a movie trailer, I did not even bother to read the synopsis of the book before starting it. 

Anna Fox is an interesting character, with a PHD in psychology she comes off as normal and the reader wonders what is going on in her life to make her the center of a story for several chapters. Since the chapters are short (for the most part) it does not take long for the story to pick up and small tidbits of information about Anna and he mental state to be feed to the reader. Despite the story being mostly about Anna nothing ever feels boring or like not enough is going on to move the story forward. 

My biggest complaint with the writing is chapter size consistency, I like it when all chapters are about the  same length. While most chapters are five pages or less sometimes a longer chapter is randomly thrown in which I feel messes with the pacing of the story. Since I am not an old black and white movie buff I did not understand a lot of references to the movies Anna liked to watch so those parts I found sort of boring and sort of just skimmed any chapter where that was the focus. 

A couple parts left me wondering what was going on after the story ended but all in all the big questions and issues were wrapped up. While I would read another story by A.J. Finn I want to wait awhile since I like to mix up thriller writers so the stories do not all start to feel the same.