Published January 2nd 2018 by William Morrow
427 pages | Goodreads Description: ❝Anna Fox lives alone, a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times–and spying on her neighbors.
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare.
What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.❞ (end of description)
REVIEW
Anna is a house-bound psychologist that spends her days drinking wine, popping
benzos, watching films, and spying on her neighbors with the powerful zoom of her camera.
One day, Anna is doing her usual snooping and sees a crime being committed and her life is then turned upside down.This is the setup for this thriller and is all I’m saying about this novel, you must read it to find out what happens.
I enjoyed the novel and experienced many thoughts and emotions while reading it. At the beginning I thought ‘I’d love to spend my days like Anna relaxing at home’ UNTIL the main character described the crippling aspect of agoraphobia and how the mental illness has limited her life and the lives of other sufferers like her. The author did a great job of chronicling the symptoms and thoughts of the main character, Anna’s anxiety and powerlessness.
It is extremely difficult to cope with a mental illness, however, the main character annoyed me at points because she did not help herself by constantly missing her doses, erroneously taking double doses, and mixing them with alcohol despite her Doctor’s stern warning to NOT mix her prescribed medications with alcohol.
However… if we didn’t have conflict we wouldn’t have a novel, right?
Overall, I enjoyed the novel and recommend it to readers of thrillers and contemporary thrillers.
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