Momma Says 3 out 5 stars
Watching You is well-written in third person POV. It does fall into the Crime Mystery genre, although I would consider it more a Crime Drama for the most part. Other than the occasional bit of language, I found nothing that would be inappropriate for any age.
*Review copy courtesy of NetGalley.
As I said, Watching You is well-written and the scenes are quite descriptive, but the pace is almost agonizingly slow in the first half of the book. There is a mystery to solve, but other than the creepy emails and thoughts of the Watcher, it seemed like a lot of random conversations that led nowhere.
The pace does start to pick up some a little more than half-way through the book, and things gradually start to come together - and I do mean gradually. The problem is it was just a little too late at that point.
For me, the appeal of a mystery is trying to suss out the clues to solve it before the big reveal. A few of those clues along the way might've helped with making this reader want to keep reading rather than set it aside for a bit. That was the biggest issue, it was just entirely too easy to set it aside when I came to the end of a chapter.
We do get quite a bit about the main character's (Tyrone Swift) personal life. Sadly, I became more interested in where that was going than in the actual case he was working.
On a positive note, the pace does pick up and there is a fair bit of action in the last few chapters.
If you enjoy Crime Dramas, you may like this one a bit better than I did. It is available in ebook and paperback formats at Amazon, and it's listed in Kindle Unlimited. (Link below.)
Watching You
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