Title: Nightwatching

Author: Tracy Sierra

Genre: Thriller

Publisher: Viking

Publication Date: 8th February 2024

Rating: 4.5/5

Cover:

Summary:

There was someone in the house.

Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. Then 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…

In that split second, she has three choices.

Should she hide? Should she run? Or should she fight?

Review:

I’ve been hearing great things about Nightwatching so my expectations were high and happily, I can confirm it is just as full of high stakes, nail-biting tension as I’d hoped. Perhaps unwisely, I read this mostly at night, alone in my house, and it had me jumping at every shadow and at any hint of noise. The first half of the book especially is almost unbearably tense and will undoubtedly shred the nerves of any reader. Nightwatching is also deeply compelling and harrowing in terms of themes such as loss, gaslighting, fear and the fallibility of memory. It makes you question everything and everyone as a truly terrifying ordeal turns into an anger-inducing aftermath as our main character is made to feel that she is unstable and dangerous. It is a dark and unrelenting read which I could not put down. I would highly recommend this to any thriller readers and I will be extremely eager to read whatever this talented author writes next.

★★★★.5

Thank you to Netgalley for my e-copy of the book. My review is entirely my own honest opinion.

Buy the book:

Amazon

(As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases – at absolutely no extra cost to you!)