When No One is Watching

I finished this book this morning, still sort of sleepless from nightmares last night and crying about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With the big reveal of the fact that a group of high powered white people had been kidnapping Black people to steal their home and do medical experiments on them it seemed laughable at first. Yes, this is fiction but is it really believable?

But that's my privilege to forget (willingly? perhaps) that things like this, even if not altogether at the same time, have happened in the U.S. and still happen now. Hysterectomies are being performed on migrant women without their consent, unscrupulous real estate firms and fraudsters work to take homes from disenfranchised communities, redlining, medical experimentation. It goes on and on.

ended up DNFing this book can't give a fair review so i will leave this without a rating.

DNF! Boring! I'm more than halfway and the only threats are bedbugs and evil landgrabbers. Talk about slow burn and bellyaching protagonist!

Get out (the movie) meets something else that I don't even get. Characters are good and solid and it's scary and interesting until it isn't- the ending was a bit jumpy and rushed, it felt.

I was debating between 3 and 3.5 stars with this one.
I decided to go with 3.5 stars.

Yes!

I normally find thrillers absurd, and sometimes I really don't care for the tropes. Like toxic female friendship. I didn't have to worry about that here. It all might seem incomprehensible, but what happens in this book, well, there's historical precedent. It isn't as far-fetched as one would like. It was stressful, mortifying, depressing, even sociologically scary. And it was so good. This is a grade-A thriller.

The book was slow paced then 2/3 in everything got intense... Basically how thrillers are.... Very educational and brought to light a couple of things. Would recommend and be patient with it.

3.7