claire b cotts

Started out with promise….

Revisado: 04-30-24

it starts at an interesting angle, a character with an outsized crush on someone who is oblivious to her. The story really bogged down, and there is a lot of casual antisemitism, which kind is hard to listen to.
The story really bogs down, and some of the characters are really annoying.
The detective himself is almost completely superfluous to the book, he hardly figures it all.
She can write well, there are some interesting parts, but the ending was a big disappointment.
PSA- there is a part where the characters are feeding walnuts to a dachshund - note, walnuts are toxic to dogs, don’t try this at home

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well, that was a waste of time

Revisado: 03-13-23

I seem to be in the minority, but I found it really badly written and full of cliches.
I gave two hours, and then I stop torturing myself, I really wasn’t enjoying it

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it’s too late for me, but you can still save yourself.

Revisado: 08-18-21

You know how in horror movies, when the character is about to go in the basement, and everyone in the movie theater yells out “DON’T GO DOWN THERE!”?

Let me save you two hours of your life……..
DON’T…..READ……THIS……BOOK!!!

The worst audiobook I have ever read/listened to.

The first bit was promising…
but don’t be sucked in-
It derails into a hot mess pretty quickly, and the narrator is awful, overly dramatic and breathy

here’s a sample sentence…,

“She should have been pregnant with Lillian then, looking desperately for anything about her dear sister that would help take away the ghastly last image that was currently haunting Adelia into a stupor”

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I would love to know how this ends, it was making me too anxious to finish

Revisado: 07-29-21

have 4 1/2 hours to go, and I just can’t make myself listen to anymore, it is so anxiety making.

It’s very well written, and very well performed, but it was a story where you can see how someone’s innocent actions are twisted and distorted and used against them,, their situation getting worse and worse and worse.
If you like psychological thrillers, I would highly recommend it, if you have a low tolerance for anxiety, stay clear

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Maybe have the narrator pronounce the main characters name correctly…

Revisado: 06-04-21

really disliked it,
I didn’t catch that it was a novel- I’m not crazy about this kind of thing, which projects conversation and actions onto an actual historical person.
The narration was mixed, narrator is able to do a large number of voices, but some of these seem entirely inappropriate, Lord Furness, instead of speaking in the “high received pronunciation” of the upper upper classes, sounds like a country pub keeper, and Thelma’s brother sounds like a parody of a 1940’s New York cabbie.

btw- Her name was pronounced in the Spanish style, “Telma”, not “Thelma”

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just amazing -

Revisado: 10-03-18

carey mulligan is brilliant - the narration is amazing and it is very well writen.

highly recommend it.
(warning - parts of it are quite upsetting, if you are very sensitive)

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uh, I COULD put it down

Revisado: 03-21-18

What would have made The Woman in the Window better?

I really don't get the rave reviews. I could only make it through a few hours. I hated the narration, her voice was so irritating and over done, and the story was way over written.

Would you ever listen to anything by A. J. Finn again?

nope

How could the performance have been better?

different narrator

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very difficult to follow, probably better to read rather than to listen to

Revisado: 12-29-17

it's challenging to keep track of who is who and to follow the characters because the names are unfamiliar, and some are very similar.
sometimes, the rich florid style is interesting, but like baklava, a little goes a long way- afterwhile, it's a little bit too rich.

I made it over 2/3 of the way through, but then it started to feel repetitive, and I realized I wasn't enjoying it at all.

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I wanted to like it, but it was pretty awful

Revisado: 09-04-16

The narrator was good, but the story itself is so ridiculous and overwrought, and the writing was so bad, I got through seven hours and realized that life is too short-
save your credit

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i shouldn't have ignored the warnings......

Revisado: 12-17-15

pretty mediocre -

sometimes, bad agatha christie reads like a parody of good agatha christie -
well, this reads like a parody of bad agatha christie.

(and the fault isn't with the reader, as many have suggested - no one could make this good)

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