Watching You
2018 • 320 pages
Ratings43
Average rating3.7
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Ratings43
Average rating3.7
You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now you're crashing in your big brother's spare room. That's when you meet the man next door. He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession. Or that someone is watching you.
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An addictive page-turner with an unexpected twist!
I thought I had it all figured out...I was wrong!
I definitely enjoyed Watching You. There's enough red herrings and withheld information that you're not quite sure what happened until almost the end, and it features an interesting cast of characters.
My issue was that I never really cared about any of those characters. They were interesting enough to keep me reading, but I wasn't overly invested in them. That lack of connection on my part meant I never truly felt much suspense or like I just had to keep reading to find out what happened. Instead, it was more a mild curiosity to see how it'd all tie together.
I'd still be interested in trying some of Jewell's others book, though.
I could not get into this book. It was so drawn out and I was beyond ready for it to get to the point. The ending had a twist that I enjoyed, but the majority was meh.
[b:Watching You 38355282 Watching You Lisa Jewell https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1545496322l/38355282.SY75.jpg 58189380] Everyone is a Suspect.I picked this book up because I was given an arc of another Lisa Jewell book The Family Upstairs. If I have never read a book by an author before sometimes, I will buy something else just to become familiar with the writing style. I am so glad I did. This has to be one of the most well-written thrillers I have read in a long time. The opening chapter sees a policewoman processing a crime scene. An unidentified person lies dead on the kitchen floor. We then rewind to two months earlier and cover the weeks leading up to the murder, with intermittent flash-forwards to police interviews with various neighbors. Several chapters in and I had concluded that the majority of the characters weren't very nice people. There were a few that had likeability potential, others I just felt plain sorry for, and two in particular that frankly made my skin crawl. It also became clear early on that almost every character was either watching a neighbor, being watched by a neighbor, or sometimes both. They lurked in bushes, took photographs, recorded video, used binoculars, looked in windows, followed one another, and bumped into each other on purpose. Disturbing behavior, right? At least that's what I thought... Then the last half of the book pretty much took everything I thought I knew and threw it out the window. Lisa Jewell is the queen of misdirection apparently, and I'm the sucker that fell for it. I still can't get over how wrong I was. And that last page – man-oh-man, so good! Aside from edge-of-your-seat crime suspense, the author succeeds at injecting a lot of emotion and heart into her stories. I admit to tearing up a couple of times. ‘Watching You' is every bit impressive and memorable Run, don't walk, to read it!
