The Woman in the Window: The hottest new release thriller of 2018 and a No. 1 New York Times bestseller

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Ethan Russell, the shy and polite teenage son who lives across the park and becomes friends with Anna

She's an unreliable drunk narrator who is hallucinating thanks to her medication (nothing new in a thriller) But she knows what she saw. And she needs to get help - and fast - otherwise the next person could be her.

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Lang, Brent (March 26, 2018). "Joe Wright Directing 'The Woman in the Window' ". Variety. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020 . Retrieved August 5, 2018. Joe Wright's 'Woman In The Window' Shoots Next Month In NYC – Gary Oldman Might Join Cast". GWW. July 16, 2018. Archived from the original on April 13, 2019 . Retrieved July 28, 2018. More importantly, how does this A.J. Finn person manage to breathe new life into something that I vehemently hate? I mean it is well documented all over Goodreads how I often find these books to be OK best, and that’s rare. Now, here I am cranking this book on up to 4 stars like a total hypocrite. I get it. It’s fine.

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. The first major twist is made so blindingly obvious from the very beginning that it’s close to an insult that Wright reveals it as if we don’t already know. And when it’s all laid out, when we finally know who did what and why, it’s such a shrug of an ending that all of the reshoots, the talent and the money are exposed to be a maddening waste of time. Curiosity might bring you here but boredom will drive you away. D'Alessandro, Anthony (August 20, 2019). "Amy Adams 'Woman In The Window' Will Now Open In Early Summer, 'Cruella' Moves To 2021". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on August 20, 2019 . Retrieved August 20, 2019.a b Linden, Sheri (May 13, 2021). "Netflix's The Woman in the Window: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 25, 2023. Nine Inch Nails: 9 Things We Learned From Our Visit to Trent Reznor's Studio". Revolver. December 23, 2019 . Retrieved May 20, 2021. I suppose I did recently say it would be a long time before I read another book with "Girl" in the title. 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. Also, I have no control of when my library holds come in, so here I am reading a book with "Woman" in the title. I was gripped from start to finish - I loved Anna’s character and finding out her history. This was just an outstanding thriller, pure and simple.