SuperWendy ,
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Wendy out here making friends and alienating people. I finally read When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole. Y'all, it did not go well https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2024/06/review-when-no-one-is-watching.html @romancelandia

peachfront ,
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@SuperWendy @romancelandia

eh, i thought it was a lot of fun-- psychological/domestic suspense is supposed to be about terrible people doing terrible things to the point where it goes completely over the top

if you don't like the genre, it makes sense that you wouldn't like the book

i know there is the BWWM romance element but i didn't go in expecting it to be a romance so maybe that's why i enjoyed it more?

Jaycee ,
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This novel felt like it was in the same genre/vein as Sorry to Bother You, which was even more over the top, but had similar themes. It is the kind of thing that has a very specific appeal, and if you aren't in the mood/prepared it is not going to work at all

peachfront ,
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@Jaycee @SuperWendy @romancelandia

makes sense-- i was very much IN that mood at the time, i was reading a ton of books in that general genre of creeping paranoia + home ownership battles/neighborhood battles & that's probably why it got recommended to me...

many are set in the burbs or else London, i loved the Brooklyn setting!!!

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