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5.0
Cassie Woodson is an attorney that has had a recent fall from grace after an "incident" caused her to lose her job at a well-respected law firm. After realizing she needed to get a job in order to pay her bills, Cassie accepts a job as a temp for another law firm. Her role is to review documents to determine if they are responsive for a specific case. While reviewing documents, Cassie comes across a private email between one of the partners of the firm, Forest Watts, and his wife, Annabelle. All it takes is just one look and Cassie is hooked on their love story. So begins her obsession and her transition from fantasy to reality.
I love that this book is a bit creepy, but in a good way. 5 stars!
Thank you to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for an advanced copy of the book.
I love that this book is a bit creepy, but in a good way. 5 stars!
Thank you to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for an advanced copy of the book.
brooke_review's review
5.0
As creepy as stalker novels are, they are a lot of fun to read, and if you haven’t gotten your fill of voyeuristic tales through Caroline Kepnes bestselling You series, Lindsay Cameron is here with Just One Look, her suspense debut which tells a stalker story from the female perspective. If you love getting into the heads of characters and prefer them to be completely unhinged, then Just One Look needs to go straight to your TBR list.
Cameron’s narrator Cassie has stalker fodder literally handed to her by way of her new temp job. Staffed at a prestigious law firm, it is her role to click through emails, determining if they are relevant to one of the firm’s cases. If she comes across an email that does not belong in the review, she is supposed to weed it out. However, when she comes across some intimate emails between one of the firm’s partners - Forest Watts - and his wife, she does the exact opposite. She becomes obsessed, hoping and praying that more of Forest’s emails will land in her review.
The more she gets to know Forest through his correspondence, the more she wants to take the place of his wife, Annabelle, in his life. Cassie uses the information she gleans from Forest’s emails to get closer to him, innocuously showing up at places she knows he will be and surreptitiously inserting herself into his life. With a plan as brash and daring as this one, Cassie knows that she is playing with fire, but she will literally do anything to become the next Mrs. Watts … anything.
When it comes to the entertainment factor, Just One Look takes the cake! I love psychological suspense novels such as this one, that showcase a person’s thought patterns and explain their motives for behaving the way that they do. Additionally, I thought that Cameron was clever in writing the stalkerish Cassie into a temp position at a law firm where it is literally her job to read other people’s emails, essentially spying on them. Just what secrets about us do our inboxes contain? Apparently enough to fuel the evil intentions of those nefarious enough to cast their eyes upon things they were never meant to see. As you’ll observe through the neurotic Cassie, it doesn’t take much in the Information Age to track down anything you could possibly want to know about a person.
Read Just One Look if you love suspense thrillers told from the guilty party’s POV. This book will appeal to readers of Caroline Kepnes’ You series, as well as those who like books like Chris Bohjalian’s The Flight Attendant, which feature professional females who DON’T have it all together.
Cameron’s narrator Cassie has stalker fodder literally handed to her by way of her new temp job. Staffed at a prestigious law firm, it is her role to click through emails, determining if they are relevant to one of the firm’s cases. If she comes across an email that does not belong in the review, she is supposed to weed it out. However, when she comes across some intimate emails between one of the firm’s partners - Forest Watts - and his wife, she does the exact opposite. She becomes obsessed, hoping and praying that more of Forest’s emails will land in her review.
The more she gets to know Forest through his correspondence, the more she wants to take the place of his wife, Annabelle, in his life. Cassie uses the information she gleans from Forest’s emails to get closer to him, innocuously showing up at places she knows he will be and surreptitiously inserting herself into his life. With a plan as brash and daring as this one, Cassie knows that she is playing with fire, but she will literally do anything to become the next Mrs. Watts … anything.
When it comes to the entertainment factor, Just One Look takes the cake! I love psychological suspense novels such as this one, that showcase a person’s thought patterns and explain their motives for behaving the way that they do. Additionally, I thought that Cameron was clever in writing the stalkerish Cassie into a temp position at a law firm where it is literally her job to read other people’s emails, essentially spying on them. Just what secrets about us do our inboxes contain? Apparently enough to fuel the evil intentions of those nefarious enough to cast their eyes upon things they were never meant to see. As you’ll observe through the neurotic Cassie, it doesn’t take much in the Information Age to track down anything you could possibly want to know about a person.
Read Just One Look if you love suspense thrillers told from the guilty party’s POV. This book will appeal to readers of Caroline Kepnes’ You series, as well as those who like books like Chris Bohjalian’s The Flight Attendant, which feature professional females who DON’T have it all together.
shellysbookcorner's review
4.0
Thank you Random House for my review copy.
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Why I liked this book:
Short chapters.
Unreliable narrator which I loved.
Ending that caught me by surprise and made my jaw drop.
I listened to the audiobook while I read and the narrator did a great job bringing Cassie to life!
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Why I liked this book:
Short chapters.
Unreliable narrator which I loved.
Ending that caught me by surprise and made my jaw drop.
I listened to the audiobook while I read and the narrator did a great job bringing Cassie to life!
eherold's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
catreader18's review
4.0
Cassie is a lawyer without a job and must temp to make money. She ends up temping at a law firm and quickly becomes obsessed with one of the lawyers.
The thrills keep coming with this book. You quickly learn Cassie is not a normal girl. I never expected the book ending but thought it was perfect. The story is told from Cassie’s POV and you really get into her mind.
The thrills keep coming with this book. You quickly learn Cassie is not a normal girl. I never expected the book ending but thought it was perfect. The story is told from Cassie’s POV and you really get into her mind.
katekate_reads_'s review
2.0
How much can you learn about someone if you have access to their entire email inbox? Private messages with their spouse, restaurant reservations, order confirmations - it’s amazing how many details are right there in your inbox.
Cassie has a new job as a temp lawyer at a firm that is doing some document review. Her job is to sort through all the flagged documents to see which are relevant to the case. But when it turns out one lawyer’s whole email inbox was flagged - she starts to learn more about him and insert herself into his life.
This was a really interesting premise and for the first half I was hooked. However the second half and especially the ending really lost me - it was too over the top.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the advance reading copy.
Cassie has a new job as a temp lawyer at a firm that is doing some document review. Her job is to sort through all the flagged documents to see which are relevant to the case. But when it turns out one lawyer’s whole email inbox was flagged - she starts to learn more about him and insert herself into his life.
This was a really interesting premise and for the first half I was hooked. However the second half and especially the ending really lost me - it was too over the top.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the advance reading copy.
bookedonbooks2020's review
4.0
Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron is a page turner of a thriller. Other reviewers noted the similarities to "You" and I have to agree. It had me on the edge of the page, ready to turn to find out what happened next. Similar to Joe Goldberg, Cassandra Woodson is a character I found myself rooting for, with some shame. Being nosy is a slippery slope and can lead to a tailspin of obsession.
Thank you to Ballantine and NetGalley for allowing me to read an ARC of this book.
Thank you to Ballantine and NetGalley for allowing me to read an ARC of this book.
jillsta's review
4.0
This was fun...and cringy. I wanted to yell, "No girl, don't!" a million times.
rerwern's review
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Boy howdy was I NOT rooting for this protagonist. The catalyst for the story is much less dramatic than the novel lets on in the beginning. This book was stressful.