4 Stars!
Dear Diary:
I think I'm in love with my English Teacher
Everything is great in the quaint town of Melville Heights. In fact, it's one of the nicest neighborhoods around. The schools are great, the families are perfect and life is overall. There's a new school headmaster in town: Tom Fitzwilliam and he's beloved by everyone in town. He is especially adored by his neighbor Joey - or Josephine - who thinks he's the guilty pleasure missing from her life. You always hear of "neighborhood watch" but does that mean the same thing everywhere? In this town it may mean something a little different. People in Melville Heights don't necessarily watching out for you for crime but rather they're watching your every move because everyone thinks everyone else is up to no good.
Twenty years prior Mr. F was brought in on a potential homicide charge. It involved a young girl at a high school he taught at. Jenna Tripp is a student in his school in this day and age and she notices a similar pattern with her best friend Bess. Is this guy a child predator? Is he too good to be true? What is he hiding? There's a few different storylines going on at once but in the end they all end up tying together...
Overall, I enjoyed this book. The beginning 100 pages started a little slower than I'd like. Not necessarily that it took me a long time to get through the 100 pages but rather nothing really happened. It was more of the anticipation leading up to the events that kept me wondering when is something going to happen? Eventually you get to that point and BAM you get a lot at once. Some people mentioned there's a lot of characters to keep track of but I didn't have much trouble keeping track. I thought it was smart because then there were a lot of options as to who could have been the villain.
This was my first Lisa Jewell book and I'm honestly sad I waited so long to read one! I will definitely be checking out more of her novels.
Thank you to Atria Books for providing me an ARC of this book for exchange of my honest review.
Dear Diary:
I think I'm in love with my English Teacher
Everything is great in the quaint town of Melville Heights. In fact, it's one of the nicest neighborhoods around. The schools are great, the families are perfect and life is overall. There's a new school headmaster in town: Tom Fitzwilliam and he's beloved by everyone in town. He is especially adored by his neighbor Joey - or Josephine - who thinks he's the guilty pleasure missing from her life. You always hear of "neighborhood watch" but does that mean the same thing everywhere? In this town it may mean something a little different. People in Melville Heights don't necessarily watching out for you for crime but rather they're watching your every move because everyone thinks everyone else is up to no good.
Twenty years prior Mr. F was brought in on a potential homicide charge. It involved a young girl at a high school he taught at. Jenna Tripp is a student in his school in this day and age and she notices a similar pattern with her best friend Bess. Is this guy a child predator? Is he too good to be true? What is he hiding? There's a few different storylines going on at once but in the end they all end up tying together...
Overall, I enjoyed this book. The beginning 100 pages started a little slower than I'd like. Not necessarily that it took me a long time to get through the 100 pages but rather nothing really happened. It was more of the anticipation leading up to the events that kept me wondering when is something going to happen? Eventually you get to that point and BAM you get a lot at once. Some people mentioned there's a lot of characters to keep track of but I didn't have much trouble keeping track. I thought it was smart because then there were a lot of options as to who could have been the villain.
This was my first Lisa Jewell book and I'm honestly sad I waited so long to read one! I will definitely be checking out more of her novels.
Thank you to Atria Books for providing me an ARC of this book for exchange of my honest review.