"Someone is Always Watching" by Kelley Armstrong is a thrilling suspense novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. The story follows the lives of a family in a small town, who become the targets of a stalker who is watching their every move.

As the tension builds and the threats become more sinister, the family members are forced to confront their own secrets and past traumas. The novel delves into themes of trust, betrayal, and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love.

Armstrong's writing is expertly crafted, with well-drawn characters and a tightly woven plot that keeps the reader guessing until the very end. The novel explores the dark side of human nature, and the ways in which our past can come back to haunt us.

Overall, "Someone is Always Watching" is a gripping and suspenseful read that will appeal to fans of psychological thrillers. Armstrong has created a masterful work of suspense, with a satisfying and unpredictable conclusion. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a page-turner that will keep you guessing until the very end.

4.5 stars - Blythe witnesses her friend have a mental breakdown and murder the principal, but the next day her memories are spotty, and everyone seems shifty. And really, who can you trust when you can’t even trust yourself?

This was such a fun read, and it gave me so much more thematically than I was expecting. I found the cast of characters to be interesting, and I got sucked into their world. Everyone had a backstory, and the cracks in the friend group made it all the more interesting. As the book progressed, it took some turns I didn’t see coming, and it really delved into the threads that make us who we are as people.

Thank you to Kelley Armstrong, Penguin Random House Canada/Tundra Books, and NetGalley for the advanced digital copy in exchange for my honest review. This book is out now, so go pick up a copy!

This one got to me, I'm not going to lie, it freaked me out and had me questioning every time I had that feeling of what might be a memory but not quite remembering.

Blythe, Gabrielle, Tucker, Tanya... they're all students at the same private school owned by the company where all of their parents work, sounds convenient right? Well for these kids there's so much more to it than that.

Part of a program they never signed up for they have to work together to figure out what happened to Gabby that made her snap, where she went, and how to keep it from happening all while trying to stay alive and out of jail.

Twisted and dark with a story that drew me in all while keeping me guessing this book quickly showed me why people kept telling me I need to read Kelly Armstrong.

Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada Tundra Books and NetGalley for providing an advance digital copy of this book, I have voluntarily read and reviewed it and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

SOMEONE IS ALWAYS WATCHING by Kelley Armstrong is a contemporary, young adult, psychological, suspense thriller focusing on the small town of Darlington Hills and a research facility owned by CMT.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from first person perspective (Blythe Warren) and several third person omniscient perspectives SOMEONE IS ALWAYS WATCHING follows in the aftermath of the so-called suicide of the local high school principal but from the outset everything is spiralling out of control, memories are erased, and the truth is definitely stranger than fiction.

Our heroine, sixteen year old Blythe Warren, is worried that something has happened to her best friend Gabrielle, who prior to the apparent suicide of the high school principal was on the verge of an emotional breakdown. Blythe had followed Gabrielle to the principal’s office but her memory of what happened or why is non-existent except for small flash-backs that do not make sense. As Blythe’s memory begins to reveal something more sinister at work, her group of well-connected and close knit friends begins to unravel a secret closely connected to the CMT Research Facility, where all of their parents work.

Blythe, along with her sisters, and friends all attend a private and prestigious STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) school, sponsored by the local CMT Research Facility but all is not well within the student body when Blythe begins to receive messages from an unknown sender, and encoded emails reveal an long term experiment that went horribly wrong.

SOMEONE IS ALWAYS WATCHING is a story of power and control, secrets and lies, murder and mystery, memories and madness, twists and turns where nothing is as it seems, and people are not whom they claim to be. Kelley Armstrong invites the reader into a psychological thriller, an intense story of mystery and suspense wherein it takes a group of sixteen year old high school students to break through the veil of power and control. The thought-provoking premise is dark, gritty tragic and dramatic; the characters are flawed, broken and easily manipulated.



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Blythe and her friends are very close. They almost have to be since they attend a very small and private school for kids of a tech company. After a violent act causes a rift between two in their group … their group dynamic changes … and then Gabrielle is discovered with their dead principal and doesn’t remember what happened. Each of them is starting to have strange memories resurface and they question everything about their families. Which memories are real and which are not? Who can the friends trust?

Someone is Always Watching is a stand-alone mystery that was a little slow in getting started but kept me reading once it took off. Readers must suspend disbelief because although this is not technically sci-fi, there are some scientific/technical things happening that can’t happen right now (or can they?). Armstrong has written a strong young adult mystery that is relatively easy to read without any red flags for cautious readers. A good read but not to be rushed to the top of a TBR list.

I binged this one in a single evening, it was SO addictive. Someone is Always Watching by Kelley Armstrong is one of those books you should go into with zero pre-knowledge, but I can tell you:

- It’s a fast-paced young adult thriller that doesn’t pull its punches
- There are conspiracies and hidden agendas and tragic backstories everywhere
- I loved every one of the characters, the teens are smart, funny, capable
- Every time I thought I knew what was going on, it changed

It's a fantastic, twisty, character-driven thriller and an incredibly fun read.

Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada/Tundra Books and Netgalley for my review copy of this book.

At the beginning, this appears to be a novel about a group of entitled, well-off teens who attend a private school sponsored by their parents' work - and it is. But it is also much more. CMT is a research facility - and it's research focuses on the children of their employees. But what happens when the research subjects discover the experiment?

This novel weaves back and forth between multiple characters, as it builds up to its climax. It is a psychological thriller that uses a potential development in the science of psychology as its basis, and as such, delves into what the basis of personality truly is. Along the way, it deals with discovering one's sexuality (or lack of interest in such), relationships with peers and parents, and PTSD. Recommended for high school and adults.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book was soo strange and twisted but yet soo good. I really enjoyed it. But I didn't like the ending I was just expecting more. I feel like it was kind of rushed. I loved all the twists and turns and how you got to understand every characters point of view. The book was very well written and I love the cover, it fits the story perfect. It was a pretty good read.

Thank you to @netgalley and @penguinrandomhouse , @tundrabooks Books for giving the chance to read and review this book.

3.5 upped to 4
Kelley Armstrong usually writes gripping thriller and this was the first YA I read written by her.
It's a good story but a bit predictable even if I appreciated the revelation and how the different parts made sense.
I think I'm not the right target.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

*3.5 stars*

This book was well written with really great character development. It's full of twists, and turns ... and lies!

The reveal of everything was definitely the best part. Specifically how the groups truths are connected and what their real stories even are, as there were definitely some major and unsuspected surprises. Once the truths were uncovered, things made complete sense and pieced together smoothly.

The only fault, in my opinion is the ending. I just think it reads/feels as if it was missing something, as if there could've been more to the finale. Overall this is an interestingly easy YA psychological thriller.

I usually like Kelley Armstrong. This is my first YA book and I think it will be my last. It was OK. It was predictable. It was shallow. It had nothing to really pull me in. And I swear I've seen this movie or read this book before. It just tickled the back of my mind the entire time. I finished it but I don't think I want to see these characters again.

Admittedly, this is my first Armstrong book.

I'm not sure if it's because of it being a YA novel, or the overall book itself, but it didn't quite hit the mark for me. I found it difficult to connect with the characters, and some parts of the book were a bit all over the place.

I won't count other books from her out because this had excellent potential, it's just not a book that I would read a second time.

“Someone is always watching” by Kelly Armstrong is a great psychological thriller that falls more into the YA category. I received an arc of this from netgalley and I’m super thankful I got to read this. The story takes so many twists and turns that you don’t see coming and the character development is great- Kelly did a great job as always at making her characters relatable to the readers in some way. If you’re looking for a good thriller, I highly suggest. I did give a 4/5 because I feel like there is some gap in the plot but I am also a harsh reader. That may be something someone else doesn’t pick up on! Completely loved this thought and looking forward to reading more by this author In the future.

I've not read Kelley Armstrong's YA thrillers before (they're scattered among my TBR, so that'll happen one day). I've read her adult thrillers, her adult mysteries, and I can honestly say this did not measure up to them. Not because of the YA factor, but because there wasn't anything about these characters (outside of Tucker) that I really cared about.

We start with a fairly large cast of characters - Blythe, our lead; Sydney, Blythe's sister; Tanya and Tucker, not-quite-friends-with-Blythe, siblings; Gabi, friend; Devon, former friend; Callum, potential love interest; and Andre, bland as plain toast.

While we spend much of the story in Blythe's POV, we bop around to many other POVs through the story - particularly Sydney's, Tanya's, and Callum's. While there are some aspects that surprised me, I felt like I knew more than the characters sometimes - though I also feel like half the fun was seeing the characters meander through what they know and what they don't. However, despite all that, I just didn't feel like I got to know the characters well outside of their one thing that defines them through the story and that was disappointing. Additionally, I feel like there was a lot that was left unexplained, or up to us to imagine, which is fine, to an extent, but it cut down on the world building as well.

The one character I absolutely loved was Tucker. Every moment he comes up in the book, I liked him more and more (save for one). He believes strongly in boundaries and consent - part of that is his history, and part of that is his rehabilitation - and it's clear throughout the book that her cares so much about Blythe and his friends. It was interesting reading about a character navigating anti-social personal disorder, but I don't know how that rep holds up (as I don't know much about it or know anyone with it).

Kelley Armstrong fits diversity in well throughout the book, and the mystery kept my attention well; but, while her characters are usuly very strong, the characters in this book just felt flat to me. All in all, this story was a page turner, but probably not one I'll remember in the long run.

Rep: ace secondary, lesbian secondary

TW: body shaming, murder, violence, blood, injury detail, gaslighting, sexual abuse, pedophilia, kidnapping, forced captivity, fire/fire injury, gun violence, religious bigotry, lesbophobia; mentions suicide, drugs

Plot: 4/5
Characters: 2/5
World Building: 2/5
Writing: 3/5
Pacing: 4/5
Overall: 3/5

eARC gifted via NetGalley by Tundra Books via Penguin Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review.

I got a free e-arc through Netgalley, this in no way affected my review.

I remember Armstrongs’ books from when I was a teen, but this didn’t completely hit the mark like it used to do.

It’s very clear from the start what the plot will be and I pretty much immediately knew how this book would turn out. There were a couple of things that did surprise me, but they were few.

The characters were also a bit too two-dimensional in my opinion, especially the secondary ones.

I only rated this book so high because I did enjoy the writing style, which made this a very accessible book.

I’ve been a fan of Kelley Armstrongs work for years. My favorite trilogy as a kid was The Darkest Powers. I use to reread it every few years with my sister. So I was overjoyed to receive this arc.

I would say 3.5 stars on this only because at times it was easy to guess the direction it was heading and the overall plot line. But it was still enjoyable and had me entertained the entire time. Almost like I was already rereading the book at some points. I think this would be a fantastic read for someone who hasn’t read much of this genre and wants to start and see how it goes! It’s a simple read with a satisfying pay out at the end.

"Do you want to do something bad?" The sentence that started the book, the sentence that started it all. I love a good YA thriller and this was a good one. This psychological thriller is told from multiple perspectives as we explore what happens when good intentions lead to unforgivable consequences. While I enjoyed the read, it didn't really go as in-depth as I would have liked. The plot had so much promise, but it came across as a surface-level overview. I would have loved to know more about the experiments and the community created around them. With the concept presented, I think I wanted more of a dystopian feel. The book definitely started off strong but then plummeted and I started to lose interest. When the book did pick back up, chaos ensued through the end. This is my first book by this author, but I will definitely read more.

Kelley Armstrong is my favorite author. This is a standalone YA thriller featuring a group of teens who attend a private STEM high school.

When one of them starts acting erratically the rest go on a hunt for the truth. Friendships are tested. Memories are questioned.

This book is creepy and mysterious and there is some romance. Overall it's a fascinating read.

I've been slowly but surely getting into YA thriller/Myster and Kelley Armstrong did not disappoint! I truly was immersed into this world and had thought the book was going into a different direction than what it did! I honestly couldn't figure out the culprit up until it was advised whom it was! Looking back Kelley left great Easter eggs to help the reader figure out who it was! If you're looking for your next thriller read, look no further!

Unfortunately I will be reviewing this one as a DNF @ 38%. Normally I LOVE Armstrong's books, but this is her first YA offering I've read, and I have to say I didn't care for it at all. I don't think her voice slows down for younger readers at all - she needs to stick to adult fiction. All opinions are of course my own. Thanks to Armstrong and the publisher for the chance to review - I'm definitely not giving up on Armstrong, but I am giving up on this book.