Play Book Tag discussion

Anna Fox lives alone in New York, and never goes outside since a horrific car accident a year ago left her with PTSD and agoraphobia. She spends her days spying on her neighbours through her windows. One day a new family moves in across the park, and she becomes fascinated by them. Parents and their teenage son. The son and the mother visit her sometimes, they become friends. Then one night Anna sees the mother get murdered through the window, but when she calls the police it turns out her neighbour is very much alive, except it's not the woman she knew.

I must not be the intended target for this kind of voyeuristic psychological thriller, since I remember not being impressed with The Girl on the Train either...

Some of the twists I didn't see coming, but I have to say most of them didn't surprise me much. And I hate when books make twists just to make twists. Throughout the entire book we (and Anna) think A is the culprit (so obviously it can't be A), then at the end there's a whole revelation that it's actually B, and a few pages later it turns out that was a lie and it was actually C. I mean, I didn't see the point of the lie about B, it would have worked just as well if we'd just gone from A to C...

And I'm not sure I'm happy they made another character with mental health issues a drunk crazy lady... Kind of superficial, no?

Read it for the Popsugar challenge of a book being turned into a movie this year, but I don't think I'm going to see that movie.

I liked this quite a bit more than you- but 100% agree with the A->B->C could easily have been cut to A -> C, and felt lest gimmick-y that way.

I will be watching the movie, I love Amy Adams. Probably will wait until it comes to HBO, Redbox, Netflix, or similar streaming service.