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A review by marilynw
Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron
4.0
Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron
Disgraced lawyer, Cassie Woodson, spent five years on the top floor of a law firm until she bombed out spectacularly, all documented by TV and internet videos, as she was led out of the law firm, by the police. After long months of barely moving off her couch, she's had to take a temp job doing point and click grunt work in a tiny, windowless room, with seventeen other nameless temp workers. Above her on the 30th floor is the life she used to lead and when she latches emails between one of the hot shot lawyers, to his wife, Cassie is moonstruck by the romantic exchanges. When she realizes that the couple may be estranged now, she sets her sights on Forest and she's not going to let go.
Cassie is mentally unstable, having lost people dear to her, first when here mother left due to depression after Cassie's birth. Cassie can't let go of the failure to be what her mother wanted her to be, and she considers the leaving of other people in her life as her fault, too. This is very book smart woman whose emotional state makes her a very weak woman. She knows she needs a man in her life, the right man, and in Forest she has found her...stalking victim...ahem...perfect man. Cassie is really good at what she puts her mind to and she soon has a bulging folder of information on Forest and his ex wife.
Cassie would be a lot better at all of this, her job, her everyday life, her stalking, if she had more confidence in herself. But that's not Cassie, she always has her doubts, her feelings of not being worthy, her deep shame for being marched from her job in disgrace. She has to remake her self in so many ways that she's always on the verge of making a mistake, forgetting her lies, and exposing the shambles of her life. Obsession is a scary thing, but Cassie lives for her obsession.
I felt bad for Cassie while feeling scared of her, at the same time. She'd be one of those really, really scary psychos we read about in novels if only she wasn't such a screw up, if only she had more faith in herself. But instead, she will get so close to her goal, only to mess things up and almost lose hold of Forest. But there is something else going on and if only Cassie wasn't so focused on catching Forest, she might be able to see that he has secrets of his own. I was transfixed while also wanting to be out of crazy Cassie's head.
Publication: July 27th 2021
Thank you to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine and NetGalley for this ARC.
Disgraced lawyer, Cassie Woodson, spent five years on the top floor of a law firm until she bombed out spectacularly, all documented by TV and internet videos, as she was led out of the law firm, by the police. After long months of barely moving off her couch, she's had to take a temp job doing point and click grunt work in a tiny, windowless room, with seventeen other nameless temp workers. Above her on the 30th floor is the life she used to lead and when she latches emails between one of the hot shot lawyers, to his wife, Cassie is moonstruck by the romantic exchanges. When she realizes that the couple may be estranged now, she sets her sights on Forest and she's not going to let go.
Cassie is mentally unstable, having lost people dear to her, first when here mother left due to depression after Cassie's birth. Cassie can't let go of the failure to be what her mother wanted her to be, and she considers the leaving of other people in her life as her fault, too. This is very book smart woman whose emotional state makes her a very weak woman. She knows she needs a man in her life, the right man, and in Forest she has found her...stalking victim...ahem...perfect man. Cassie is really good at what she puts her mind to and she soon has a bulging folder of information on Forest and his ex wife.
Cassie would be a lot better at all of this, her job, her everyday life, her stalking, if she had more confidence in herself. But that's not Cassie, she always has her doubts, her feelings of not being worthy, her deep shame for being marched from her job in disgrace. She has to remake her self in so many ways that she's always on the verge of making a mistake, forgetting her lies, and exposing the shambles of her life. Obsession is a scary thing, but Cassie lives for her obsession.
I felt bad for Cassie while feeling scared of her, at the same time. She'd be one of those really, really scary psychos we read about in novels if only she wasn't such a screw up, if only she had more faith in herself. But instead, she will get so close to her goal, only to mess things up and almost lose hold of Forest. But there is something else going on and if only Cassie wasn't so focused on catching Forest, she might be able to see that he has secrets of his own. I was transfixed while also wanting to be out of crazy Cassie's head.
Publication: July 27th 2021
Thank you to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine and NetGalley for this ARC.