📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Watch Out for Her
AUTHOR: Samantha M. Bailey @sbaileybooks
Publisher: Simon Schuster @simonandschuster
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: April 26, 2022
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The Review 📚 Watch Out for Her
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- This is a new author to me so I wanted to give it a shot based on the really cool synopsis. Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for allowing me to read this ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- The story was told in an interesting way. Th represent, which follows Sarah and her family when they move to Toronto is told in a linear chronological way. Interspersed is the past, told from both Sarah and Holly’s viewpoints. You get to see different perspectives of the same thing: Why Holly did what she did, why Sarah is afraid of her, and what broke them apart.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- I guessed the ending about a quarter of the way through. However, if you are not as suspicious as I am, you might be shocked even if you guess some parts!
🚦 My face at the end: 🤓
💭 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Dual perspectives
- 2. Stalkers and infiltration
- 3. Dubious motives
- 4. Family
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Sarah and her family have moved away from Holly and a toxic situation. But has she been followed by her fear?
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
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📘 Summary 📚 Watch Out for Her
Wherever you go…
she’ll be watching.
Sarah Goldman, mother to six-year-old Jacob, is relieved to move across the country. She has a lot she wants to leave behind, especially Holly Monroe, the pretty twenty-two-year-old babysitter she and her husband, Daniel, hired to take care of their young son last summer. It started out as a perfect arrangement—Sarah had a childminder her son adored, and Holly found the mother figure she’d always wanted. But Sarah’s never been one to trust very easily, so she kept a close eye on Holly, maybe too close at times. What she saw raised some questions, not only about who Holly really was but what she was hiding. The more Sarah watched, the more she learned—until one day, she saw something she couldn’t unsee, something so shocking that all she could do was flee.
Sarah has put it all behind her and is starting over in a different city with her husband and son. They’ve settled into a friendly suburb where the neighbors, a tight clique of good citizens, are always on the lookout for danger. But when Sarah finds hidden cameras in her new home, she has to wonder: Has her past caught up to her, and worse yet, who’s watching her now?
A tense psychological thriller about a mother who must keep watch at all times if she wants to keep her family safe—from USA TODAY and #1 national bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey.
A spine-tingling, page-turning novel from USA TODAY and #1 national bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey, Watch Out for Her is psychological suspense at its very best—a chilling look at trust, voyeurism, and obsession in the modern age, and how far we will go to watch out for those we love.