Review: Watch Me by Brenda Novak

Posted September 8, 2008 by Casee in Reviews | 1 Comment

Genres: Romantic Suspense

Watch Me

Teenagers Sheridan Kohl and Jason Wyatt were parked at the lake in Whiterock, Tennessee, when a stranger wearing a ski mask shot them both. Sheridan lived but Jason died—and the stranger was never caught. Even though Sheridan’s family moved away right afterward, she’s never been able to put the crime behind her.

And now that someone doesn’t want her to come home.

Because of a new development in the case, Sheridan returns to Whiterock. But when she’s attacked a second time, it’s only because of Jason’s stepbrother, Cain Granger, that she survives—and Cain’s the last person she wants to face. If not for their history, if not for her, Jason wouldn’t have been in that parked car.
Cain knows that whoever killed his brother probably isn’t a stranger at all. But figuring out that person’s identity is easier said than done—especially since the killer seems to be taunting them both:

Watch me.

So what I thought was going to be a trilogy, is actually turning into a series. Shocker. At least it’s a series that I am interested in reading more about. Trust Me remains my favorite book in the trilogy series. I did like Watch Me better than Stop Me.

Watch Me opens up with Sheridan Kohl being buried alive. It’s hard to beat a beginning like that. I was immediately pulled in. Sheridan has no idea who decided to kill her, but she knows it has something to do with why she came back to Whiterock, Tennesee. Fifteen years after the tragedy that caused Sheridan’s family to leave Whiterock, she has returned, determined to finally find out who shot Jason and why. Sheridan has always felt extremely guilty b/c the only reason her and Jason were together that night was to make Jason’s brother, Cain, jealous. At 17, Sheridan had no idea that her childish actions would cause the death of someone she liked.

Cain Granger has no idea what he will find when he follows his dogs into the forest surrounding his house. He certainly didn’t expect to find Sheridan Kohl, the girl that he has never been able to forget. Driven by a need he can’t explain, Cain offers to take care of Sheridan after she leaves the hospital. It isn’t long before both Sheridan and Cain realize that her returning to Whiterock has made someone nervous enough to kill.

While there were parts of this book that I didn’t like, overall I really thought it was good. I liked reading about a loner like Cain accepting that he was in love with a girl that he should have never let go. The book was so convoluted with people that could have been the killer, that it was relatively easy to figure out who the real killer was. Even for me.

I didn’t like Cain’s stepfather and wish someone would have put him out of his misery. Anything that went wrong in his life was b/c of Cain. That got old really fast. I was happy that he wasn’t happy in the end, even though his unhappiness came at a high price.

4 out of 5.

This book is available from Mira Books. You can buy it here or here in e-format.

Other books in the series:

Trust Me Stop Me

Read my review of Trust Me here and Stop Me here.


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