5/20/2023 0 Comments Woman in the window by aj finnBroken legs, blindness, controlling husbands, and now agoraphobes offer convenient circumstances for an otherwise functional person to become trapped in a confining darkness and fall prey to malevolent forces. Finn effectively creates a universe for Anna inside her walls, where she is vulnerable, unreliable, and remote from the big wide world outside. As I noted in my review of the 2017 Dating You/Hating You, there is a danger of knowing a genre so well that you are not writing a story so much as filling in a template.Īs boiler plates go, The Woman in the Window is top notch. That movie is familiar, because we’ve seen it many times before. He knows these scenes and pacing so well that the book reads smoothly while the movie reel plays in the reader’s head. Unfortunately, it is Finn’s very expertise with the genre that detracts from the book’s ultimate power. As he has told many outlets during his book promotion, he worked for years in publishing reading and greenlighting projects in this niche, and all that followed a childhood love of old noir films. Finn, a lifelong lover of the suspense and noir genre, that demands attention.įinn loves this genre. Anna Fox, who may or may not, in classic Hitchcockian mode, have witnessed a crime. The most interesting part of The Woman in the Window is not the psychological haze of Dr.
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