I FLEW through Watching You - I mean, start me right off with a body in a pool of blood and some super shady characters, and I'm all in from page one! The twists, the clues, the questions in my head were flying off the pages. I felt like everyone was watching everyone! Anyone could have done this! Everyone's hiding something!
The plot of Watching You is fantastic. It's so well executed to hook you in and starts you right off questioning every single character. Joey is newly married, not conventionally though, she has only know Alfie a few months after meeting while partying in Ibiza. They've moved in with her doctor brother and his wife, and she is having a fairly hard time trying to be a grown up and make something of her life. She's got no job, no real skills, and has always just been 'wild Joey' with no real goals or ambitions.
But Joey certainly has some ambitions to get to know her new neighbor Tom, a headmaster at a local school. Tom's son, watches the town from his window, and questions the motives of this new woman on his block who has been watching his father. Jenna, a student who also lives nearby, thinks headmaster Tom has a shady past and questions his squeaky clean image. Jenna's mom is looney tunes - which makes for a fun and interesting character, and several other players in this mess of a neighborhood, add to roving uncertainty as to who is crazy, who is sane, and who is a murderer. Everyone is suspicious of everyone for their own reasons, before the murder even occurs! I LOVE when everyone appears equally batsh*t crazy and you just have no idea who killed the person introduced in the opening scene!
BUT... the clues that are dropped throughout, although cleverly weaved to reveal some really interesting stories and twists, unfortunately I think were revealed too soon. Much to quickly - and I solved the whole thing halfway into it. I still think it was a great story, but after one clue - I just predicted and anticipated everything afterwards.
There were a few minor surprises at the end, that I didn't see coming, but the whole big shocking 'who-dun-it' that I crave in stories like this, was just revealed way too soon for my taste. I wish it had been held on tighter and not so easily and quickly uncovered. A good story though - I'm happy I read it.
The plot of Watching You is fantastic. It's so well executed to hook you in and starts you right off questioning every single character. Joey is newly married, not conventionally though, she has only know Alfie a few months after meeting while partying in Ibiza. They've moved in with her doctor brother and his wife, and she is having a fairly hard time trying to be a grown up and make something of her life. She's got no job, no real skills, and has always just been 'wild Joey' with no real goals or ambitions.
But Joey certainly has some ambitions to get to know her new neighbor Tom, a headmaster at a local school. Tom's son, watches the town from his window, and questions the motives of this new woman on his block who has been watching his father. Jenna, a student who also lives nearby, thinks headmaster Tom has a shady past and questions his squeaky clean image. Jenna's mom is looney tunes - which makes for a fun and interesting character, and several other players in this mess of a neighborhood, add to roving uncertainty as to who is crazy, who is sane, and who is a murderer. Everyone is suspicious of everyone for their own reasons, before the murder even occurs! I LOVE when everyone appears equally batsh*t crazy and you just have no idea who killed the person introduced in the opening scene!
BUT... the clues that are dropped throughout, although cleverly weaved to reveal some really interesting stories and twists, unfortunately I think were revealed too soon. Much to quickly - and I solved the whole thing halfway into it. I still think it was a great story, but after one clue - I just predicted and anticipated everything afterwards.
There were a few minor surprises at the end, that I didn't see coming, but the whole big shocking 'who-dun-it' that I crave in stories like this, was just revealed way too soon for my taste. I wish it had been held on tighter and not so easily and quickly uncovered. A good story though - I'm happy I read it.