It's Friday . . . time to share book excerpts with:
- Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.
- The Friday 56 hosted by My Head is Full of Books,
where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an eBook), find
one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.
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Page 56: ". . . I don't know what precipitated this change, what's finally made him really listen when I repeated yet again that I can't handle everything regarding childcare and housekeeping on my own. I hope it's not guilt . . ."
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My thoughts: I'm several chapters into the book and it's a definite page turner so far. The author is slowly revealing information about a prior relationship between a young family and their babysitter that didn't end well. Something led to a dramatic parting--in fact, the family has moved clear across the country. But what happened and why is there such an unsettling sense of unfinished business between them?
Each chapter, told in the alternating voices of the mother and the babysitter, takes the suspense to new heights. I'm intrigued by each development and eager to find out how the story ends.
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From Goodreads: Wherever you go…she’ll be watching.
Sarah
Goldman, mother to six-year-old Jacob, is relieved to move across the
country. She has a lot she wants to leave behind, especially Holly
Monroe, the pretty twenty-two-year-old babysitter she and her husband,
Daniel, hired to take care of their young son last summer. It started
out as a perfect arrangement—Sarah had a childminder her son adored, and
Holly found the mother figure she’d always wanted. But Sarah’s never
been one to trust very easily, so she kept a close eye on Holly, maybe
too close at times. What she saw raised some questions, not only about
who Holly really was but what she was hiding. The more Sarah watched,
the more she learned—until one day, she saw something she couldn’t
unsee, something so shocking that all she could do was flee.
Sarah
has put it all behind her and is starting over in a different city with
her husband and son. They’ve settled into a friendly suburb where the
neighbors, a tight clique of good citizens, are always on the lookout
for danger. But when Sarah finds hidden cameras in her new home, she has
to wonder: Has her past caught up to her, and worse yet, who’s watching
her now?
A spine-tingling, page-turning novel from USA TODAY #1 national bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey, Watch Out for Her
is psychological suspense at its very best—a chilling look at trust,
voyeurism, and obsession in the modern age, and how far we will go to
watch out for those we love.
