A review by missbeccadawn
Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron

3.0

Oooo, this one was fun. As soon as you pop into Cassie's mind, you know you're in for a ride. She's clearly suffering from declining mental health and begins to stalk her sort-of-coworker, Forest with nods to an 'incident' in her past. As things unravel, you're sometimes cringing for Cassie, sometimes rooting for her (like Joe in You, almost). This is more fun than it is realistic, but I did feel that the author did a good job of making the setting happen. I totally believed in this drab temp job with the shitty boss, the flippant coworker, the menial work.

I do think you need to suspend some disbelief in this story, and that was what took me down a star in rating this. I'm all for an unbelievable thriller, but some thrills seem to be for shock value and not because it makes sense. The end of the book left me feeling kind of like, 'oh... really?' Nosing around in Cassie's thoughts was wild (

Spoiler

like when she shot herself with an epi pen just to feel what Forest would feel like during an attack, that was a fun one

) but I felt living through her experiences was almost interesting enough to justify the book. The epilogue was fun, though, so bonus points there.