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A review by remivfoliage
Watching You by Lisa Jewell
4.0
I can’t help but compare this book to I See You by Clare Mackintosh due to the title of the book.
Summary: 27-year-old Joey had just moved into her brother Jack and his wife Rebecca’s house. She found herself watching her 51-year-old neighbour Tom.
I like Lisa Jewell’s writing. She’s good at telling stories. Unlike I See You, the creepiness wasn’t there, so I call this more of a mystery than a thriller.
The author is good at manipulating reader’s thoughts. We believed that it was Tom who had died in the beginning of the book. We then started to have doubts in this seem-to-be perfect character. A student called Jenna and Tom’s son Freddie even had their own detective things going on.
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In the end, we found out it was Nicola — Tom’s wife who died and she was actually a middle school bully back then. Nicola bullied Rebecca’s sister and drove her to suicide. That was why Rebecca killed her without feeling a little bit of regret.
However, from the epilogue, Freddie discovered a lock of brown hair from an envelope that his mother kept. To which I suppose it means that Nicola had probably killed Rebecca’s sister all those years ago.
Summary: 27-year-old Joey had just moved into her brother Jack and his wife Rebecca’s house. She found herself watching her 51-year-old neighbour Tom.
I like Lisa Jewell’s writing. She’s good at telling stories. Unlike I See You, the creepiness wasn’t there, so I call this more of a mystery than a thriller.
The author is good at manipulating reader’s thoughts. We believed that it was Tom who had died in the beginning of the book. We then started to have doubts in this seem-to-be perfect character. A student called Jenna and Tom’s son Freddie even had their own detective things going on.
[spoilers below]
[spoilers below]
[spoilers below]
[spoilers below]
[spoilers below]
In the end, we found out it was Nicola — Tom’s wife who died and she was actually a middle school bully back then. Nicola bullied Rebecca’s sister and drove her to suicide. That was why Rebecca killed her without feeling a little bit of regret.
However, from the epilogue, Freddie discovered a lock of brown hair from an envelope that his mother kept. To which I suppose it means that Nicola had probably killed Rebecca’s sister all those years ago.