Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
on February 1, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic, Fiction / Thrillers / General
Pages: 368
Format: Audiobook
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Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender. In the suffocating darkness, the mother struggles to remain calm, to plan. Should she search for a weapon or attempt escape? But then she catches another glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once she knows her situation is even more dire than she’d feared, because she knows exactly who he is—and what he wants.
Nightwatching is not your typical home invasion story and it turned out to be nothing like I expected. This enthralling story had me on the edge of my seat in suspense. But not only is it a high stakes thriller, Nightwatching is also a complex story that’s centered around how our culture easily dismisses women as liars or dismisses them as crazy. The story also touches on the internal struggle of guilt that moms face every day. The author did an amazing job setting the stage for a home invasion. We all lock our doors at night for a reason. We all want to be and feel safe in our homes. What happens when that sense of safety is destroyed? What happens when you have young children with you? How hard and fast does your heartbeat as you can hear someone walking around your home? This book was oozing with tension, dread, danger, and fear.
I rated this 3.5 stars. I for one had no idea how this one was going to end, the characters were well drawn, shockingly so at times, but I really enjoyed this creepy yet wonderfully atmospheric storyline that gives new meaning to the term ‘twists and turns’!
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