Under a Watchful Eye

An Adam Nevill book is always going to be a good read, but I don't think this one will ever be a favourite of mine. The first hundred or so pages borrow extensively from one of his short stories, and I read them with the feeling that I'd seen it all before. Once this platform is raised, the book does take on more of its own identity but for me at least, the threat was never as scary as the beast in the forest from The Ritual, or as visceral as No One Gets Out Alive. It's still worth reading, well written and atmospheric, but it didn't quite click with me like some of his others have.