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desiree930 's review for:
I See You
by Clare Mackintosh
This is my first Clare Mackintosh, and I have to say, I’m a little underwhelmed?
To begin, I was listening to this on audiobook. I do not recommend this. The voice actor doesn’t do anything of note to change her voice for different characters, and they aren’t distinct enough to differentiate on their own. Zoe’s chapters were written in first and Kelly’s were in third, but they sound so similar I kept mixing them up. Also, I would implore the author to invest in a name book. There were so many characters in this book with similar sounding names: Kelly, Cathy, Katie, Kathryn; Matt, Megan, Melissa; Nick & Neil. Lexi & Lucinda...there were times it just got confusing. So I switched partway through to the physical copy, and that helped.
One of my main gripes about this is that I didn’t really like the Kelly chapters. It’s funny, because I enjoy television shows about cops and solving crimes and whatnot, but I don’t like reading about it. The author tries to give her some depth in the subplots involving her sister and her problems at work, but I just didn’t care. Every time we switched to her chapters I would wish we were back in Zoe’s chapters. It felt like Kelly’s chapters kind of stopped any momentum this story had going for it.
As far as the end and the reveals...I was again, underwhelmed. The first big bombshell wasn’t something I’d specifically guessed, but I did suspect that this person was being used in this scheme unknowingly.
However, the second twist, which is what I’m assuming people are referring to when they talk about ‘OMG THAT ENDING’ was something I’d guessed about a hundred pages in, and nothing that happened after that point deterred me from that guess. If anything, it reinforced it. So when it happens, yes, it’s creepy, but I wasn’t shocked.
To begin, I was listening to this on audiobook. I do not recommend this. The voice actor doesn’t do anything of note to change her voice for different characters, and they aren’t distinct enough to differentiate on their own. Zoe’s chapters were written in first and Kelly’s were in third, but they sound so similar I kept mixing them up. Also, I would implore the author to invest in a name book. There were so many characters in this book with similar sounding names: Kelly, Cathy, Katie, Kathryn; Matt, Megan, Melissa; Nick & Neil. Lexi & Lucinda...there were times it just got confusing. So I switched partway through to the physical copy, and that helped.
One of my main gripes about this is that I didn’t really like the Kelly chapters. It’s funny, because I enjoy television shows about cops and solving crimes and whatnot, but I don’t like reading about it. The author tries to give her some depth in the subplots involving her sister and her problems at work, but I just didn’t care. Every time we switched to her chapters I would wish we were back in Zoe’s chapters. It felt like Kelly’s chapters kind of stopped any momentum this story had going for it.
As far as the end and the reveals...I was again, underwhelmed. The first big bombshell wasn’t something I’d specifically guessed, but I did suspect that this person was being used in this scheme unknowingly.
However, the second twist, which is what I’m assuming people are referring to when they talk about ‘OMG THAT ENDING’ was something I’d guessed about a hundred pages in, and nothing that happened after that point deterred me from that guess. If anything, it reinforced it. So when it happens, yes, it’s creepy, but I wasn’t shocked.