Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

48 reviews

natashaball's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying, Stalking, and Murder

weekatsie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

nahni's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Mental illness

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Murder

Minor: Racism and Xenophobia

cinnamxnstick's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 I was hooked from the start, detective hat ON trying to figure out where it was going. 
Obviously Lisa Jewell outsmarts me every time!! The Queen of Twists!!!
Jewell has such a talent for getting me invested in deeply flawed characters and getting right into the grey areas.  Always playing with perspective in surprising ways!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Suicide, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

nahal3's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse

clarklyn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Don’t have any detailed thoughts about this one, I enjoyed reading it!  It kept me guessing which I was pleasantly surprised by!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

nneka's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Lisa Jewell is an absolutely superb writer, throughout reading she had me on the edge of my seat. You never truly know where the plot is going, the twists and turns gave me whiplash, yet excited me all the same. I wish I could read this book for the first time again and relive the plot twist all over again. One of the only books that managed to me fill my eyes with tears of pain and disgust simultaneously.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Pedophilia

sarah_tani's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Stalking, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

chapters_and_pages's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was my 8th Lisa Jewell book, and while I enjoyed it, it definitely wasn’t my favourite. 

Melville Heights is one of the nicest areas of Bristol, it’s certainly the last place you’d expect someone to get brutally murdered in their kitchen… Following four different characters, everyone has something to hide. 

Firstly, as someone who was born in Bristol and has lived here my entire life, I loved reading about it from a fictional perspective. It was really cool to actually be able to recognise and picture locations based on first hand perspective!

At the beginning, I found it a little hard to distinguish the characters, and who I was following at any given time, but by about 100 pages it wasn’t too bad. 

I really enjoyed Jenna as a character, she was definitely my favourite. In regards to the other three main characters, in my opinion, Joey was annoying, Tom was creepy (even if he wasn’t in a relationship with a student, and, as far as we know, had never been, the fact that he was in his mid thirties and in a relationship with a 19 year old was creepy…) and I didn’t like how Freddie was portrayed. 

Throughout the book, Freddie is depicted as some sort of teenage stalker, watching people from his window, taking photos of them. Later in the book, it becomes clear that he has Asperger’s (which would now be known as Autism Spectrum Disorder) which he doesn’t know about. As someone with suspected Autism, I don’t like how it seemed like the behaviour was written off and excused because he’s on the spectrum. 

I found the ending to be a bit meh, not bad but not as shocking as I would have liked. The very last page mentions a lock of hair, and for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out who’s hair this was and the significance of it until I Googled it, and I’ve read a lot of reviews where people said the same thing. 

Overall, I enjoyed this book but it wasn’t a favourite of mine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Pregnancy

kshy's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis