A review by mehsi
It's Watching by Lindsay Currie

2.0

This was OK at points, but *sighs* also a disappointment. The ghosts were great, the haunting was spooky and I loved how it followed the kids, the cemetery was interesting/spooky, I loved there was a bit of history, the epilogue fab. But the kids I didn't like (lying to their parents, holding a sleepover when the parents think that the kids are somewhere else), making dumb decisions, not thinking about checking further or maybe expanding their search to libraries/museums/historical societies, some weird things that didn't make sense like our MC saying she almost wanted to call her uncle to get away from the house while she knows the ghost is STUCK TO HER and her friends. I didn't understand why she was reacting to the sayings her friends made, those are just normal sayings (and no I am not an old grandma, I am still young). How the kids got stuck on one clue and just never thought about anything else. How someone 12 years old didn't think for herself that love is love but remembers it as something that her parents have said many times, with how many books there are out now with LGBT+ kids this stood out. These kids ORDERED ubers like water, not to mention how did these drivers even accept the kids? They are 12, if I was an uber driver I would definitely first want to see an adult before allowing them in the car. Also, I found it hilarious that Alisson was all teary-eyed because she checked the countdown that Josie kept from her, do these kids not know to count anymore? You have until midnight at a certain date, you can count right? I was just laughing at this point. Sorry. Also Janessa, who the fuck enters a home without permission????

Such a shame. Lindsay Currie is normally THE person to go to for spooky MG horror and this is her very first book (been reading her books since The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street) that I didn't like at all. I hope her next spooky book is better!

Longer review to come in May/June.