THE FACE AT THE WINDOW
๐๐ก๐ ๐
๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐ฐ
๐๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ง๐ซ๐๐ฅ
๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ซ: ๐๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ
๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ค: ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฌ
๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐๐: ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐
๐๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐ง๐ซ๐: ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ, ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ซ
๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐
๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ: ๐๐๐๐
The story revolves around Mrs. McNally, an 80-year-old woman living in a hill town with her two house helpers Bimla and Manikji. Mrs. McNally is nearing the end of her days - and torn between revealing her deepest, darkest secrets, truths that could change her daughterโs and granddaughterโs lives forever, and carrying them with her into the afterlife. After living in her hilly cottage for many decades, she suddenly starts experiencing some strange incidents there, which she can't explain.
Millie, her daughter, lives in London and McNally does not hold a particular place in her daughter's heart. On other hand Nina, Mrs. McNally's granddaughter, studies at a boarding school about 3-4 hours away from her place. As a result, Nina always visits her Grand Mother during vacations. No one knows the secrets that Mrs. McNally holds, not even her daughter. It is not even known to people that the name she is known by, "Mrs. McNally", is not her real name.
I thought this book would be a very interesting read since it is from the horror genre, but alas, it wasn't a horror or thriller to the last page. Despite choosing the hilly area to show the horror, the horror did not appear in the story. A one-star rating is given because the story from pages 202 to 230 was somewhat interesting. After reading about 50 pages, you will understand what is happening, so there is no thriller or suspense. It won't take you long to comprehend the whole story. This is the 2nd book I've read by Kiran Manral and both books left me with the same feeling. Overwritten. Very slow-paced. This issue crops up when the narrative is loose, and the book needs filler material to be considered long enough to be a "book". It is quite sad because the author has potential and could have written a good story, which is why I picked up her book again. Then I got disappointed again.
My Rating:
1/5
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