I Am Watching You

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Women tend to believe all men would be happy with a purely sexual relationship, and feelings wouldn't be involved. It would have worked better if he'd given her a framed picture of the two of them, he is a photographer after all.

There was no build-up, no tension and no rush of adrenaline and the characters felt a little limp towards the end. You need to watch, you see, because it is extremely important to work out the difference between how people behave when they know they are being watched and when they don’t. The writing was so tedious it was hard not to dnf, I had to sit through an entire chapter of how to make flower arrangements and another chapter explaining why a character has a deep hatred for flies! The guilt and secrets that Sarah kept to herself about what happened to them that night were clear as day from the very beginning. In this book, almost everything happens “off-screen” so to speak, so—if you want the action this may not be the book for you.The author for this book throws out a twist that is ridiculous and you get no hint of who the killer is at all. There, in the semi-darkness, his heartbeat finally begins to settle and he sits very still on the tractor, needing the quiet, the stillness. I read somewhere that by your forties you are supposed to care more about what you think of others than what they think of you — so why is it I am still waiting for this to kick in? I usually don’t read unknown authors (especially British ones) but decided to read this under my Kindle unlimited plan.

She thinks nothing of it; until she realises that the young men are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert.The next day, the news of Anna Ballard, one of the girls on the train, missing was on the TV broadcast. It keeps you on the edge of your seat (somehow) as well as in the dark; so that you don’t know what happened until the end. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls—beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard—has disappeared. He moves the tractor across the yard again, depositing two more bales of straw alongside the others.

It’s not merely about solving a mystery of a missing girl but rather a tragedy that ties families together. The Plot (from Goodreads): Amy jumps at the opportunity when she’s offered a nannying job in picturesque West Cork. Her online books are popular, and have attracted the attention of a book publisher ( Lesley-Anne Down). With so many characters and their individual stories, there was a lot to keep track of and at times things didn't seem to fit. What I admire most about this author is her beautiful writing, spare and yet heart-wrenching, and this book combines that wonderful writing with a tense, page-turning plot.The initial premise intrigued me, too bad that Driscoll decided that instead of sticking with one character throughout which would have made the book stronger, she jumped around to four other characters. Now another thing with this one that seemed to make it a bit tougher to connect to the story for me was the way the book changes the point of view between several different characters.

Anna had met Ella’s son Luke at some kind of camp, and Tim was afraid that Anna was interested in him. Why would you put on headphones, and leave your phone where you can't see it, when you're expecting company? There was a decent amount of mystery and suspense, and I was very surprised by the ending, I never saw it coming! When she walks to get something and overhears one of the girl's having sex in the bathroom (Sarah) she gets upset that she thought they were nice girls and washes her hands of them. Covering crime for so long, she was deeply moved by the haunting impact on the relatives, the friends and the witnesses and it is those ripples she explores now in her darker fiction.

Story told primarily from the viewpoints of the witness, the private investigator, the father, and the friend. I'm genuinely salty AF right now 😒 Not only did a waste my very precious reading time on this awful book but I also broke my 2023 good book reading streak I was having! Sarah’s mother begins to raise her body from the chair but slumps back down as their heads shake a ‘no’ in stereo.