Zoe hasn’t had the easiest start with relationships, having been married and divorced with two teenaged children and now living with Simon, a man whom she has brought in to live with her and her and her kids. Considering all that she has gone through she still comes across to me as being naive and trusting.

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I See You uses an exaggerated situation to remind us of the risks we might encounter in our everyday lives. The paranoia and anxiety increases as Zoe goes from being unsure if she has anything to worry about to feeling hunted. It's an unsettling reminder to stay alert, trust your intuition, and be aware of your surroundings. Whether you like this one will depend on what you want out of your thrillers. My feelings for I See You are similar to my feelings for David Bell's Since You Went Away. I tend to prefer investigations or sociopaths over the parenting of teenagers, but there are always exceptions! This book was entertaining and I suspected almost everyone at one point, but I didn't feel like I was at the center of the action. A and D are collaborating on an artistic book. E and B agree privately that the project is “awful” but that A and D “need the confidence” it is going to give them. “Log VI/Everybody” is set during its launch party. One way this chapter extends the novel’s range of desubjectifying techniques is to present the party’s attendees as a list of statistics. Of the New Yorkers, we read, 69 “live below 14th Street,” 18 “on the Upper East Side,” 42 “on the Lower West Side,” 36 “on the Upper West Side,” etc. Verbal exchanges are presented in fragments, as snatches of overheard conversation, but also broken down as percentages: “36% of the women talked more to women than to men”; “14% made an effort to meet specific people it would be advantageous to know”; “47% spoke to former lovers.” The movement of people through the room is described purely visually—as if caught by accident in the lens of a camera. Grater, Tom (May 14, 2018). "First look: Helen Hunt horror 'I See You' completes cast, shoot underway (exclusive)". Screen Daily . Retrieved March 9, 2019.

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AND Claire you delivered my lovely friend.... with THAT twist. That's the best part... well played well played! But has it ever occurred to you – even once – that perhaps it is we ourselves who are being minutely observed? And not with the innocent, idle curiosity that motivates our own secret scrutiny, but with psychotic, intense focus. So Zoe sees herself in a newspaper ad. A rather suggestive one. Those around her, including the police, dismiss it as coincidence. But then other women appear and the coincidences pile up and we are off to the races…

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If it's just the two of you. Just you, and whoever's behind you. Whoever is chasing you. How fast could you run then?" I See You is a novel you can breeze through easily in an afternoon. The first chapters were a bit on the rough side with too many unnecessary tangents from main character Zoe's point of view. However, that may have been intentional. Zoe wasn't supposed to be exciting. She was supposed to be a mundane, dull, average woman going about her day-to-day life. It was when Zoe got thrust out of her comfortable world into a whirlwind of panic that the story began to shine. There's diversity of personalities in the characters. Kelly is an interesting police officer - with he own set of issues-on the London transport. and Zoe's boyfriend Simon has been grouchy lately, and resentful of her ex-husband (Justin and Katie's dad). All the dialogue in the book is transcribed without attribution or commentary. Each chapter is presented as a numbered “Log” followed by letters indicating the primary characters who feature in it. In “Log VII/B (and A),” B tells A that when she was modeling, she “never felt real” but rather “like something whipped up for the occasion, something disposable.” During the conversation, B tries to seduce A, but A reacts angrily: “I don’t expect that crap from a woman.” The adverb “angrily” is mine, for such qualifiers or framings are incompatible with the formal organization of the book, which scrupulously excludes any viewpoint or sentiment that does not originate with a character. Later, B sits in a beauty parlor under a mud mask and tells a woman she doesn’t know that “she has secret sessions in front of the mirror where she makes herself ugly.” Beauty and ugliness are among the many categories of judgment that the book refuses to endorse.Firstly, I loved Clare's first book a fantastic first novel, the second keeps to the same standard.