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novelesque_life's review
3.0
3 STARS
(I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review).
"As a special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is smart, savvy, and fearless. When sheâs assigned to spy on a deadbeat dad in the middle of the night, Bailey thinks nothing of the potential dangers, only that she needs to gather evidence. Then she is blindsidedâattacked and nearly killed.
Now the firm grip Bailey once had on her life is shaken. Her nightmares merge into her waking hours and sheâs unable to venture beyond her front door without panicking. A veritable prisoner in her own home, Bailey is uncertain whom she can trust. But old habits die hard, and soon Bailey finds a new use for her idle binoculars: casually observing from her window neighboring buildings and other peopleâs lives. This seemingly harmless diversion becomes a guilty pleasure when Bailey fixates on the handsome guy across the streetâuntil she realizes that he is also watching her. Suddenly she must confront the terrifying possibility that he may be the man who shattered her life.
Though crippled by fear, Bailey knows she canât ignore her suspicions and risk leaving a predator at large. With the police making no headway in solving her case, sheâs determined to overcome her terror and reclaim the power she lost by unmasking her attacker and taking him down herself. But itâs a harrowing battle that threatens to wreck Baileyâs credibility, compromise an investigation, and maybe even claim her sanity." (From Amazon)
While Fielding does a great job at capturing Bailey's mental state after the rape I felt that this novel lacked the usual suspense. The Rear Window aspect of the novel was interesting but becomes a bit tedious. I thought this was a good novel but it seemed to need a bit more editing.
(I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review).
"As a special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is smart, savvy, and fearless. When sheâs assigned to spy on a deadbeat dad in the middle of the night, Bailey thinks nothing of the potential dangers, only that she needs to gather evidence. Then she is blindsidedâattacked and nearly killed.
Now the firm grip Bailey once had on her life is shaken. Her nightmares merge into her waking hours and sheâs unable to venture beyond her front door without panicking. A veritable prisoner in her own home, Bailey is uncertain whom she can trust. But old habits die hard, and soon Bailey finds a new use for her idle binoculars: casually observing from her window neighboring buildings and other peopleâs lives. This seemingly harmless diversion becomes a guilty pleasure when Bailey fixates on the handsome guy across the streetâuntil she realizes that he is also watching her. Suddenly she must confront the terrifying possibility that he may be the man who shattered her life.
Though crippled by fear, Bailey knows she canât ignore her suspicions and risk leaving a predator at large. With the police making no headway in solving her case, sheâs determined to overcome her terror and reclaim the power she lost by unmasking her attacker and taking him down herself. But itâs a harrowing battle that threatens to wreck Baileyâs credibility, compromise an investigation, and maybe even claim her sanity." (From Amazon)
While Fielding does a great job at capturing Bailey's mental state after the rape I felt that this novel lacked the usual suspense. The Rear Window aspect of the novel was interesting but becomes a bit tedious. I thought this was a good novel but it seemed to need a bit more editing.
hannas_heas47's review
4.0
Thanks to Random House Pub for an ARC to read and review via Netgalley and librarything.
Bailey Carpenter starts out the book as a kick ass investigator but after an investigation involving a dead beat dad she is attacked and left for dead. Her ordeal is horrible but I'm left wondering if her family is worse. Both her parents are dead and she is the product of her fathers final marriage. When her father passes he leaves millions to his final two kids but not his children from other families which is strange. So after the attack Bailey is afraid of everything now and can't leave her apartment or disaster seems to strike. It almost feels like she is going crazy but she has moments of lucid clarity. She starts watching one of the neighbors that fit the description of her attacker and becomes obsessed with him.
I could not put this book down. I sat up until the wee hours of the morning just to finish it. The ending blew ME AWAY!
Warning: rape situation and disturbing scene contained in book!
Bailey Carpenter starts out the book as a kick ass investigator but after an investigation involving a dead beat dad she is attacked and left for dead. Her ordeal is horrible but I'm left wondering if her family is worse. Both her parents are dead and she is the product of her fathers final marriage. When her father passes he leaves millions to his final two kids but not his children from other families which is strange. So after the attack Bailey is afraid of everything now and can't leave her apartment or disaster seems to strike. It almost feels like she is going crazy but she has moments of lucid clarity. She starts watching one of the neighbors that fit the description of her attacker and becomes obsessed with him.
I could not put this book down. I sat up until the wee hours of the morning just to finish it. The ending blew ME AWAY!
Warning: rape situation and disturbing scene contained in book!
skiracechick's review
3.0
I could not handle this book for the first half, and kept seriously contemplating quitting it throughout. The main character was so damn annoying with her traumatized life and sheer crazy thoughts and actions, that I would turn the book off occasionally (I was listening to it on audio). It's got better in wavers, but it wasn't enough to redeem it to being a terribly worthwhile read.
teresadennis's review
5.0
Great characterization, good suspenseful writing that kept me guessing. Ending was logical.
hima's review
3.0
!!!! cw: rape !!!!
3 âď¸ oh boy. i feel like i just went through something and i literally cannot even describe what happened in my brain, except not really in a good way, but not in a bad way either? i think the author does depict baileyâs collapse into total emotional instability after her rape ⌠decently. itâs just that, like, at some point, it got sort of boring, which sounds terribleâbut i actually said âoh my godâ out loud to myself at some point bc it was REPETITIVE.
the thing is that bailey keeps doing all of these reckless and frankly unhinged things and it makes sense that sheâs doing them, but everyone around her (beyond the expected) completely enables it or doesnât question it rigorously until probably the 70% mark. the way her paranoia was written got old QUICK; every instance thatâs supposed to illustrate it goes exactly like this: âthere is a man in front of me. he has eyes and a mouth and hair. he is talking on the phone. is he the man that raped me?â the number of times she poses this question pretty much verbatim is too much. i donât know if it was intentional repetition or if it was supposed to make some kind of point but it didnât.
another thing is that i had a very hard time feeling bad that she and her brother were being sued by their half-siblings for part of the TEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS their dad left to only them bc he was a bad person and a bad father, and i got the sense that i was definitely supposed to feel bad, which made some of the plot ineffective.
AND. some of the mystery things were weird. they say that they canât get any dna bc the unidentified rapist bc he used protection but itâs also mentioned (many times) that he bit her. wouldnât you be able to collect, or at least try to collect, salivary dna from a bite mark? also the phone stuff was kinda weird bc wouldnât there be call history for incoming calls that she could check ⌠idk lol
3 âď¸ oh boy. i feel like i just went through something and i literally cannot even describe what happened in my brain, except not really in a good way, but not in a bad way either? i think the author does depict baileyâs collapse into total emotional instability after her rape ⌠decently. itâs just that, like, at some point, it got sort of boring, which sounds terribleâbut i actually said âoh my godâ out loud to myself at some point bc it was REPETITIVE.
the thing is that bailey keeps doing all of these reckless and frankly unhinged things and it makes sense that sheâs doing them, but everyone around her (beyond the expected) completely enables it or doesnât question it rigorously until probably the 70% mark. the way her paranoia was written got old QUICK; every instance thatâs supposed to illustrate it goes exactly like this: âthere is a man in front of me. he has eyes and a mouth and hair. he is talking on the phone. is he the man that raped me?â the number of times she poses this question pretty much verbatim is too much. i donât know if it was intentional repetition or if it was supposed to make some kind of point but it didnât.
another thing is that i had a very hard time feeling bad that she and her brother were being sued by their half-siblings for part of the TEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS their dad left to only them bc he was a bad person and a bad father, and i got the sense that i was definitely supposed to feel bad, which made some of the plot ineffective.
AND. some of the mystery things were weird. they say that they canât get any dna bc the unidentified rapist bc he used protection but itâs also mentioned (many times) that he bit her. wouldnât you be able to collect, or at least try to collect, salivary dna from a bite mark? also the phone stuff was kinda weird bc wouldnât there be call history for incoming calls that she could check ⌠idk lol
nlkdonahue's review
2.0
2.5 stars. Haven't read one of her books for a long time, it will be a long time before I do again.
madziorinio's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75