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With My Little Eye by Joshilyn Jackson

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fiction_addiction_1994's review

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dark mysterious tense slow-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

1.0

TW: Stalker, IVF infertility/ miscarriage, Rape (mentions)
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First, let me thank NetGalley for letting me read for an honest review 
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•What did I think of this book? (Mult POV)
I hate giving bad reviews but i pride myself on honestly.. So, I don't know what I expected but this was not it. This was full of side characters and too many details. I haven't had the pleasure of reading a book where the main character is an actress.. honestly, she couldn't have made poorer choices if she tried. Move cross country to rid a Stalker fine, okay.. but imagining it's an ex and moving to his city? And not taking better measures to ensure her family's safety? The name given is "Marker Man".. I didn't care for this read it picked up at for a moment but altogether predictable. 
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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

SYNOPSIS: 

Meribel Mills is an actress, who had some fame in the nineties, and a single-mom. She begins receiving creepy letters from a dangerous stalker, and over a year, the stalker’s behavior escalates. She moves herself, her daughter, Honor, and their dog, Gumball, from LA to Atlanta for a fresh start. Meribel took a part as a character in the second season if a popular show “The Spirit of the Thing”, which was filming in Atlanta. Will she get a fresh start in Atlanta, or will the stalker persist?

MY THOUGHTS
  • This is the second book I’ve read by Joshilyn Jackson. I previously read “Mother May I”, and I thought “My Little Eye” was better than “Mother May I”
  • This was a gripping, terrifying book, and I loved it. It was fast-paced, and I enjoyed it. I liked the ending as well.
  • I enjoyed how Jackson structured the book. The story is told from multiple perspectives of different characters.
  • Even with all the thrillers I read, I kept wondering, “okay, who’s the bad person? who’s good? who do we trust?”, while reading it.
  • I really enjoyed how Jackson wrote Honor’s character, who is portrayed as Autistic, intelligent, funny, & kind.
  • I thought this book raises a lot of good themes and questions, such as..
    • How often do we treat celebrity’s lives as non-human juicy topics or gossip?
    • Police tend to not take stalking seriously, until something violent has happened.
    • We do “micro-stalking” everyday on social media.
  • There’s a lot to explore in this book, and I didn’t think it was the run-of-the-mill “beautiful woman being stalked” story.

TL;DR: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Fast-paced, well-written, gripping thriller. Deeper than your run-of-the-mill “beautiful woman being stalked” story.


Thanks to William Morrow and NetGalley for this digital ARC in exchange for an honest review. It's due to be published on April 25, 2023.
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