The woman in the window.
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Such a disappointing read. I rarely come across books that makes me want to abandon them in the middle and this one takes the trophy. A lengthy novel that never seemed to end, made me want to hurl it aside and pick a new read. But I don't do that to books no matter how uninteresting they are and so I sat like a good girl and finished reading it.
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The protagonist is a woman in her mid-thirties named Anna who suffers from Agoraphobia. The irony that Anna was once a child psychologist is not lost on the readers as she struggles with a trauma that she faced few months ago and is still trying to cope with the healing process. Being trapped inside her house for months, she picks up a new hobby of spying on her neighbours through her camera lens. When the new neighbours move into the area, a woman called Jane drops by and spends an afternoon with her. Anna can't seem to remember the last time she opened upto someone.
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The story takes shape when Anna witnesses Jane get murdered during one of her spying sessions and she reaches out to the cops and her doctors for help. Except nobody believes her considering her mental instability along with her alcoholic state. The novel unfurls painfully slow as she tries to fight her doubts and figures out the murder mystery. I'll admit that the plot was quite unique but it happens only once you cross half of the story. The characters are well written with minute details being enhanced but the story made it all seem quite ordinary.
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A very overhyped story which did not please me whatsoever. What could have been summed up within few chapters was dragged till a 100.
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Rating - 3/5.