280 reviews for:

Watch Your Back

Tate James

4.38 AVERAGE

avielle's review

4.0

Spicier, ending makes me want to read on. Ashley is scholarship student studying for masters at new college. Her new step bro Nate and his 3 friends Royce, Carter and Heath.are part of a secret society. She finds a journal depicting terrible events that war. Against society but she is thrust in anyway. This book gets into hypno events like murder where they donโ€™t realize what theyโ€™re doing and no one is exempt and no one is safe.
adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

4.5โญ๏ธ - 3๐ŸŒถ - 5๐ŸŽค
(Full cast audiobook)
โ˜† Bully vibes
โ˜† Why choose
โ˜† Secret society
โ˜† Taboo romance

When I tell you I was not prepared for that ending? I am *shook*. Absolutely wrecked. Emotional damage levels: catastrophic. Tate James really said โ€œOh you thought you were safe? Cute.โ€

This one leaned plot over smut, which surprised me. Donโ€™t get it twisted, the spice is there, but it takes a backseat to the chaos and secrets. The real magic is in the characters. The nicknames, the banter, the way each of them shows love in their own messed-up, deliciously unique way. Ugh, my heart.

The spicy bits? Not top tier. But honestly, I was too busy clutching my headphones and screaming at the cliffhanger to care.

So should you read it? Absolutely not. Save yourself. Except actually yes, go read it, because you need to suffer with me.

Favorite quotes:

You're my obsession. Every minute you're not touching me, heart aches. I love you so much, it literally hurts sometimes.

Heath snuggling me like I was little spoon. The fucking audacity. I am not little spoon!

Squirrel, if you don't get in the damn car in the next 10 seconds, I will bend you over the hood and fuck your ass right here in broad daylight while all the nice people passing by watch.

I'm so sorry, Ash. I'm so fucking sorry I can't be what you deserve.
challenging dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

asta97's review

4.0

Enjoyed but not as much, she keeps acting like being in love with 4 boys is normal and doesnโ€™t get why theyโ€™d be a bit reserved. Ending is insane though
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bookishnai92's review

5.0
adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes

That ending is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS! 
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amybosica's review

5.0
dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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bubblewombat's review

3.75
dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

Things are heating up!!! By which I mean, what the helly was that cliffhanger Miss James??? Did I think the story would go there? Not in my wildest dreams. I don't know what's real anymore. Send help.

This series is getting better and better, I'm so excited for the third book and hate that I have to wait a month for it to come out ahhhhhh!!!

We got some relationship development between Ashley and the guys, and we finally saw Roycey in action, yup he's definitely my second fav alright. Carter is still first, Heath and Nate still battling for third, but depending on how that ending goes, Nate might keep last place.

I think it's hilarious how terrible things happen, and they're only worried about potentially sleepwalking, but people getting run over by cars? Fine. Someone committing murder? Also fine. But sleepwalking is where we draw the line.

And yes, there is a reason for that, but they just ignore things that happen to people around them in a "well, that's life" way. It's actually how one would expect out of touch rich people to act, so it's not that surprising.

I wish we had more mystery to go with the smut. Because so far in both books, the biggest chunk of it was saved for the ending. There are tidbits here and there as they're investigating, but I'd say Watch Your Back was more about the five of them bonding than anything else.

Either way, I need You're Next now, please and thank you.

3.5/4?
dark emotional relaxing tense medium-paced

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๐—ฅ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†โ˜† 4.5/5

This was another crazy cliffhanger, my mind is spinning!! It looks like I don't have to wait tooo long but still. What the helly just happened? This is sooo good and I cannot wait for the author to make it all make sense again haha. Love these characters and how they are growing closer. Also, narration of the audiobook is sooo good.

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes