The Watcher: A dark addictive thriller with the ultimate psychological twist

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It’s the sense of isolation and unease as Lily’s life spirals out of control, which permeate the fabric of this book creating a really different form of tension and nail biting suspense. Evan witnesses the girl being assaulted and verbally abused by her father. He hears the girl's father screaming at her about a photo, Callie's photo. The girl's father is unaware that Evan witnessed this abuse and continues to abuse his daughter. Evan takes off like a shot after witnessing that and gets Chris. They call the police and manage to stop the girl's father from abusing any further. The police arrive and arrest the father, and the girl reveals her name, Margaret. He opens the big present (which is just an empty box), and then proceeds to kill their two dogs and put their bodies in the empty box.

Quería decir gracias a la editorial Duomo por mandarme el libro que yo escogí y me siento apenada de que la reseña sea para darle esta baja puntuación pero soy sincera al compartir mis opiniones.First off, I LOVE psychological thrillers. I love any type of book that messes with my mind and confuses me. Any book that keeps me guessing, keeps me on the edge of my seat and really has me use my brain. It doesn't matter whether it's a thriller that has elements of crime or a book such as Shutter Island for example (which really is more about the main character's mental state and what he's done rather than a crime that's recently been committed and this book made me question my own sanity). The plot was so intriguing and entertaining, which is why I don’t get why people found this so average on Goodreads! Yeah, maybe the plot has been done before, but that made this no less interesting or fun to read. There were certain aspects of the story that were easily predictable, but reading them unfold made up for the fact you could guess them beforehand. He has a ton of stuff to bring home, several boxes, champagne, caviar. He’s going all out for her birthday.

This book is written in the guise of a letter from Lily to her father, so it’s written in second person.I remember thinking ‘Jeez, these people have actually gone through this. This actually exists in the world,’” Dumezweni said of her initial reaction to the story. This is an easy-to-read thriller, but somehow I just never really got into it. Lily wasn't a very real character to me, and some of the things she did seemed very random (I didn't understand why she suddenly went round to the murder victim's house in the middle of the night, for example). By the end of it, I couldn't remember who all the different suspects were, there were so many of them, and I wasn't that interested in who did it. But if you want an easy read, it does hold the attention. The blurb puts it perfectly. “…Martin Gregory is either lost in a dark maze of madness and horror, or is frighteningly sane.”

A couple’s dream home turns into a total nightmare in Netflix’s The Watcher. The limited series, from creator Ryan Murphy, is based on a true story that is almost too horrifying to believe. Lily wants to narrow this gap. She is a people watcher of extremes and has created names and even woven lives around many of the people she knows only by sight. It becomes clear that despite her accurate record keeping and obvious intelligence, she is perhaps not the most reliable of narrators.Here, there is none of that. Right up until the end I didn’t know if Martin was genuinely crazy or whether this whole series of events was dreamed up by Somerville. It’s never explained and I sure didn’t get any subtle clues either way. Perhaps they were there, perhaps not. Maybe it is up for the reader to decide exactly what’s going on, and different people will have different interpretations on what actually happened. And isn’t that a great thing? Ross Armstrong has penned an original thriller with spot-on social commentary and a main character with a remarkably strong voice. A debut that shows much promise. As she begins her quest to meet and talk to her neighbours she displays an erratic side to her personality, heedless of her own safety she makes ill-judged decisions and when she sees something which really worries her, followed by a sudden death she is convinced is murder, she rushes headlong into a self-destructive investigation which is bound to end badly. This was a really fun book to get carried away with, totally unputdownable! I’m certainly going to keep my eyes peeled for more of Armstrong’s writing in the future. Despite not being made aware of the original events, Farrow said she was told she would be part of a "Ryan Murphy project" and that she would be taken "nowhere she'd ever been before."