Play Book Tag discussion

I was scared that this would feel like such a long book because it’s over 400 pages and all I knew going into it was that the main character has agoraphobia (she doesn’t feel like she can leave her house and doing so can cause her panic attacks) and she witnessed her neighbor getting murdered. In some ways this fear was justified, but there is more to the plot than that. The book talks about how she developed agoraphobia, her treatments (which are very rough for her throughout the book), and the neighbor that may or may not be dead.

It does drag on because there isn’t much movement throughout the story which may be because most of the story is in Anna’s home the vast majority of the time. However, I think if you took away the chapters about Anna’s life before she developed agoraphobia (and how she came to develop it), it would take away from what little progress there is when reading.

This is a book I would put into the same conversation as Verity and The Silent Patient. It’s a slow book that ties a lot of unanswered questions together at the end. They all also have plot twists throughout the book that you don’t realize are important until the end. If I had to compare the three, I’m not sure that The Woman in the Window would be on the top of that list. It is more predictable than the other two and has plot twists that are often used in books.

It wasn’t a bad book by any means, I just don’t think it was remarkable.