Review: The Watcher Girl - Minka Kent

Review: The Watcher Girl - Minka Kent - May 2021

A thriller author that I have been enjoying is Minka Kent and The Watcher Girl was another great twisted story by her. The book starts with Grace who was adopted as a child and felt that she never fit in with her family, especially since her adoptive mother ended up in prison for murder and that she learned that her nanny as a child under a pretense there to take Grace as her own. The Watcher Girl is a sequel tale but can be read as a stand-alone as I haven't read the first but was able to catch the gist of the story. In this book, Grace has returned home after eight years away and has the feeling and desire to make things right with Sutton. However, when she gets to her hometown and meets Sutton's new wife and daughter, things are a bit off as it looks like Sutton is abusing Campbell. As the book goes on, we read as this weird obsession starts to form with Grace and her saviour complex and Campbell with her abused wife complex, and Sutton with this controlling attitude. But is all that it seems? The Watcher Girl was a great thriller but does show readers that you can never judge a person by their outlook as what's on the outside could be entirely different on the inside if you scratch beneath the surface. I have to admit, I was hoping for a little bit more on Grace's biological mother and would love to see a story about her and what she went through as that sounds like it could make a good romantic suspense / edgy tale in itself.

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