Thanks to Lynne Lee and Amazon Publishing UK for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Would you know if someone was watching you?

In the dark days since the sudden death of her surgeon husband, Julia’s main worry has always been Tash. Her student daughter was broken—she worshipped her father. But six months on, Julia thinks the light is returning. She is about to find out that she’s wrong.

When she saves the life of a boy who’s been hanging around her beach cottage, the questions start. All she has to go on is the butterfly tattoo on his wrist, but who is he? What was he doing there? And why was her late husband’s watch in his bag? Julia wants to believe it’s a casual theft, but an ominous arrival in the post confirms her suspicion that there is more to it than meets the eye.

As Tash remembers a string of strange incidents she had previously brushed off, Julia realises they are both being watched. Someone’s been toying with them, trying to frighten them, but why?

Determined to protect her daughter, Julia races to discover the boy’s identity. But what she doesn’t realise is that the truth is right in front of her. Will she see it before it’s too late?

This one was very enjoyable and I couldn't put it down!

Julia's husband is dead. It was unexpected, leaving her reeling and her daughter, Tash, broken. She had always been a daddy's girl. What the daughter doesn't know is that Julia and her husband had planned on divorcing before his untimely death.

Beginning to see the light, the two spend some time at their beach cottage. That's when things begin to happen.

Julia spots a young boy peeking into their cottage. When she approaches him, he takes off running, and falls leaving him with serious injuries. Being a doctor, she saves his life. But what she discovers leads to a lot of questions.

Why was he watching them? Why does he have her husband's watch in his bag? Julia wants to believe it must have been a simple theft .... but an ominous arrival in the post confirms her suspicion that there is more to it than meets the eye.

The storyline is mysterious, a little scary, with deftly drawn characters. There are chapters told by an unknown person, leaving one to wonder what was really happening.

Many thanks to the author / Amazon Publishing UK / Netgalley for the digital copy of this psychological thriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

Would you know if someone was watching you?
When she saves the life of a boy who’s been hanging around her beach cottage, the questions start. All she has to go on is the butterfly tattoo on his wrist, but who is he? What was he doing there? And why was her late husband’s watch in his bag?
Julia races to discover the boy’s identity. But what she doesn’t realise is that the truth is right in front of her. Will she see it before it’s too late?
I find it little bit creepy and strange but very interesting and exciting. The writing was very good.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of the book

The twists kept coming for this book! I enjoyed the way it kept me guessing... but it quickly became a bit of a joke and I found myself totally disbelieving anything that was happening. It was fun and twisty but not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination.

What a terrific read! I was hooked from the beginning. Julia, the main character, is a physician who lost her husband. She comes upon a boy who is near her home, injured and saves him. What happens after is a lot of lies, love and betrayal. And I couldn't be happier! Throw in a few twists and call it a day! Loved it!

This story was slow in the middle and hard to get sucked into. Once the twist was revealed, it was easier to grow fond of the boy! Overall it was good but not a book I would recommend,

A gripping psychological thriller that had me guessing and second guessing for most of the book.
I had no preconceptions or expectations from this book but absolutely loved it. I’m now on the look out for more from this author.

This is the story of a strong, well rounded and intelligent doctor grieving for her dead husband while maintaining a loving and optimistic relationship with her daughter. Julia, in Wales in her solitude, saves a young mans life who fell while running from watching her home. The story is told from two points of view, Julia and that of a moth. Yes, a moth. The moth, gives us some indication and misdirection on their real identity. The good doctor and her daughter are in danger. Suspicious after finding a connection between the young man and her husband, she knows she needs to unravel the knots in the past. I really didn’t guess the outcome so the ending was powerful and suspenseful.

Three stars for the book that kept me going, I really wanted to finish it. However, at the end of each chapter from Julia's point of view there was a chapter about moths. These two storylines were confusing, and the addition of every second chapter rather annoying.

Add to that the twist at the end of the book revealing the storyteller that is obsessed with these creatures... this storyteller being referred to as being mentally unstable, I'm not very happy with this. I think of the mentally ill as instigators behind plots of whodunnits, thrillers, mysteries as being passé.


Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of the book.

Can You See Me opens like a familiar scent of cookies wafting through empty halls of your childhood home. A bittersweet memory of something lost, and the acknowledgement of moving on. Julia has recently lost her husband and she and her daughter Tash are moving on, tragically interrupted by a sudden turn of events when a strange young man need saving.

It is a brilliant book which managed to throw a good few red herrings at me - not at all an easy task. Lynne Lee opens a whole new world of introspective into a mind of a person broken by the world around them and a series of awful mishaps in the system, fluttering by the reader like the soft wings of a moth. It's always there and comes together in a lovely conclusion.

This was a pretty good twisty thriller that I liked. It was am enjoyable read and I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in a good thriller you can be surprised by.

This is about a woman that lost her husband and her only concern now is about protecting her child. When she thought she didn't have to worry about anything other than her child things started happening. One day she met this boy hanging around her cottage and she chased after him and he ended up in an accident falling over the cliff and she saved his life and she realized that the boy had her husband's watch which led her to discovering things about her husband. Realising that she she was being watched and the answers was basically right in front of her eyes.

I gave this book 3 stars because to me it was a good story but there was a lack of connection to the characters. The characters was just not reachable enough to form a humanly connection and the reveal coming down to the end was not really surprising. It all made sense it was kind of creepy the way the mysterious person was into Mott's and the way the main character which is a mother knew the different types of moths also.
It was really hard to get through with this book I pushed through in other to give this review instead of dnf'n it but in all it was a good story but not a story for me.

I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

It took me a little while to get into this book. I didn't love it at the beginning. It did start to catch my attention towards the middle. The twists were good, and I did enjoy them a lot. Some of the events are REALLY creepy! The moth chapters were really weird.. They gave me the heebyjeebys.

I really wish we had gotten to know Julia (the main character) a little bit more. I think that is why I had such an issue getting into this book. I like to relate to the main characters and I just didn't feel connected with her at all.

Overall, this was a good and creepy thriller. Thank you to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for this review copy.

This was a fascinating thriller that kept me up past my bedtime. Excellent character development along with a twisty story. Highly recommended.

Thank you to Netgalley and Amazon Publishing UK for this advanced reader copy. I had a difficult time coming up with my rating for this review. Can You See Me did have some great thriller moments and finally when I was about 60% through I felt the urge to keep reading, but I really struggled to connect with this one.

Can You See Me is about a women named Julia who notices a stranger hanging around her cottage. As she goes to confront him he takes off, ending up in a near fatal accident. This mysterious boy has many secrets and when Julia notices that he has her late husbands watch, she knows that things are just beginning and that her husband is some how connected to this boy.

I gave this one 3/5 stars since I had such a tough time getting into this novel. There were some good twists like you’d expect from any thriller, but I did find the ending pretty predictable once some information was revealed. Maybe I’ve just been reading too many thrillers lately 🤷🏻‍♀️ If you’re someone who doesn’t read a ton of thrillers and can hang on through some slower chapters this may be a good read for you!

Julia Young is a doctor and is staying for a few days at her beach home in Wales. Her professor husband, David, died from a stroke about six months ago. Shortly before his death, they had been planning to get a divorce. However, their daughter, Tash, is now a freshman at university and they didn’t want to upset her so they had been holding off telling her.

Coming up from the beach, Julia sees a young boy hanging around her cottage. When he spots her, he starts running and she chases him. She wants to know what he is doing on her property. At the top of a cliff, he falls and tears his femoral artery. Julia stops the bleeding and is soon rescued by a helicopter to take the boy to the hospital. The boy is in critical condition for severals days as they try to locate his family.

The police finally find that the young boy is Kane whose single mother has multiple sclerosis and will have difficulty caring for him. But Julia remains concerned for Kane and can’t stop wondering why he was hanging around her house.

When some creepy events occur, Julia is unsure if someone is playing games with her or truly trying to frighten her.

The book has separate chapters written by an unknown person or thing about moths. This totally gave me the creeps because I cannot stand moths! They freak me out! Of course, I’m sure it was written to that way to frighten the reader. Well done at that, author.

As creepy as it was for me, the moth chapters seemed to be the most compelling and informative parts of the book which is why it earned 4 stars. Julia didn’t necessarily appeal to me and I found a lot of the book to be not that great. Crazy people do crazy things.

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This book was just OK for me. It centers around Julie, a doctor and recent widow who sees someone suspiciously hanging around her cottage, chases him, and ends up saving his life when he falls off a cliff during the pursuit. She wants to make sure he is OK, but other events occur to make her realize that there is more to the story than she initially thought. Julia's daughter Tash is a secondary character in the story, and I liked the interactions between them,

I couldn't really get into this book for a couple reasons. One was that I never felt like I really got to know Julia- for example, she alludes to issues in her marriage before her husband dies but doesn't go deep enough into them for me to get a feel about where she is coming from. Secondly, there are chapters written from the perspective of the unknown villain throughout the book that focused on different types of moths- while an original concept, I could not get into those chapters, having no real interest in moths and also not really knowing what the person was talking about in some of the verbiage within those chapters. I felt like this diluted the overall story a bit, and slowed it down. And thirdly, while I didn't see the twist coming in terms of who the villain was, I feel like it's because it was implausible that this person would be the villain, and I was left not really understanding why this person had focused their hatred on Julia to begin with, as well as why there were no hints given throughout the book to make this make sense.

Overall, this is an original story and there is some mystery involved, but it wasn't my favorite read. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to preview this ARC of Can You See Me by Lynne Lee.

Right when Julia and David were on the cusp of ending their long term marriage, David has a stroke and dies. This is devastating to their daughter Tash and confusing for Julia to process. But life is going to go from sad to strange when Julia finds a young man on her property who ends up in the hospital after a nasty fall that injures him severely. Who is he, why was he in their home, and are they in danger.

Written in two different voices, secrets are slowly uncovered about these seemingly simple family. It seems that there are strangers that are very familiar with them, and do not wish them well.

I enjoyed the atmosphere and foreboding of the story, as well as the subtlety. The characters were written well and the story was compelling. My biggest complaint is probably the speed, it moved just a bit too slow, it was easy to fade out and then pick right back up without missing much. The ending didn't quite stick like I was hoping either, but it was still worth the ride.

Twists and turns aplenty in this entertaining a quite dark read. Enjoyed to plot and have to admit did not see the ending coming, no spoilers here. Well worth a read, I recommend it!

Can You See Me is a fast paced, intelligently plotted story that kept me guessing until the end. There were plenty of twists and turns and I though the character of Julia was interesting and well developed. Recommended!