With My Little Eye is a thriller centered around a small-time tv celebrity with a stalker. Meribel Mills is an upper 30s (Hollywood-age, lower 40s biological age) semi-famous actress with an adopted 13 year old daughter Honor, who moved to Atlanta Ga to escape a determined stalker.

The premise of the story is interesting and I like the characters, especially Honor, but there are some ridiculous plot points that make it a three star read for me. Still enjoyable and sometimes funny, but a couple of twists that were over the top. The ending also seemed abrupt.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and HarperCollins for a digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

After I got a feel for the varying POV, this ended up being a great thriller! Stalker thrillers can be somewhat predictable, but this one had a phenomenal plot twist!! I am so glad I stuff through the challenges of the first 1/4ish of this one because the second half was worth it! Thanks for the ARC in exchange for this honest review.

Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC of this thriller. It was a 2 star for me, I found it to be a little boring and honestly I think it was because it had too much going on, I often found myself wanting to read other things. If this wasn't an ARC, I would have DNf'd before 50%.

I tried as hard as I could, but I just couldn't get into this one. At all.

I didn't want to give up on it, I genuinely did want to find out who the stalker was. But I found myself just skimming the pages, trying to extract relevant information in a sea of non-relevant story. The whole time I couldn't figure out at all why she could even think it might be her ex-husband. His role in the story wasn't necessary at all. When I did find out who the stalker was, I just sighed. It was so underwhelming in comparison to the amount of story I had to get through to get there.

The characters weren't compelling in any way. I wasn't rooting for any of them - and side stories for a few characters just went off the rails.

There was alot going on in this book, so how was I so bored by it?

Safe to say, I sadly won't be recommending this book.

I started off really liking this book. We follow Maribel who used to be on a tv show and had to leave LA to get away from a constant stalker. She wanted to keep her daughter(Honor ) safe. They move to Georgia I believe and she is starting to settle in when she notices someone watching her from a park by her house.

Then she keeps finding more things that signify her stalker is either there or knows where she is. I dnf'd this book at about 40% I like the concept however I felt the delivery could have been better. It was kind of slow even though a lot was happening it wasn't surprising or keeping me interested at all. It was putting me in a reading slump unfortunately. Maybe the audiobook would help bring it to life possibly. I may try in the future but not at the moment.

I appreciate the Arc copy from Netgalley.

With My Little Eye was a good thriller. Kept me guessing throughout. But maybe it was too much going on at the same time? It all came together in the end tho. Although that ending seemed very rushed and left me wanting more answers. Solid 3 stars.

Thank you William Morrow and Netgalley for the ARC of this book. Unfortunately it was a DNF at 21% for me. Normally if I can make it a quarter of the way into a book, I’m invested enough to power through. But the writing in this was all over the place and really didn’t work for me, and the POV switches were very confusing. I just didn’t care enough about the mystery to finish at this time.

I normally loveJackson's books, especially her thrillers. But unfortunately this was a DNF @ 20%. There were too many extraneous details that added nothing to the plot and I was bored out of my mind. I'm hoping her next one is better.

Yikes. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book this bad. 😐

It would almost be a mercy to not remember this book in the future because I have a feeling this book is going to stick with me for a while and not in a good way.
I mostly enjoyed Mother May I so I requested this because I thought I’d get another reading experience similar to that.

Sometimes Jackson’s writing is so all over the place I don’t entirely know what she’s trying to convey. Maybe this is because I read an ARC but the writing was terrible. Someone has some hefty editing with this book before publication.

The POVs also drove me bonkers. I was having trouble keeping them together since each chapter wasn’t labeled with the POV and you had to read a little bit to understand who was talking. What made this so confusing was that Cam and Cooper were so similar that I kept confusing them, especially without a headlined POV. And don’t even get me started on them talking about the previous relationships and marriages and our MC talking about hers. Too many irrelevant relationships to keep track of.

The daughter has a best friend whose mom is kind of crazy and dramatic and she plays such a useless role in this story that I’m not sure why she was really brought up at all. Same with the MC’s ex-husband. It added pages to the story without any sustenance.

There are many stories happening at the same time that you have to keep track of and by the end, most aren’t even relevant to each other. There was just wayyyyyy too much going on.

Mother May I was good but my biggest complaint was the POV confusion in that one too. I own Never Have I Ever and will give that a try but if I don’t give it at least 4 stars this probably isn’t the author for me.

A big thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for a complimentary copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This book will be published on April 25th, 2023!

With My Little Eye is a decent thriller and definitely kept me guessing as to who the 'bad guy' was. I enjoyed each twist as well as the interplay between the characters. I think everything could have been pushed a little further, a little creepier in many regards, but overall a strong showing in this genre.

Note: I received a free ebook copy of With My Little Eye from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

If you like stalker thrillers, I think you'll find this one enjoyable. I did get confused with the changing chapters and POVs and they weren't titled so I was wondering if it was just because this was an ARC or not. I hope for the published version they change it.

I am a big fan of Joshilyn Jackson, but this book was shockingly a struggle for me to get through! I especially loved Mother May I, and found it to be uniquely terrifying & unpredictable. With My Little Eye had many different characters and did not feel like a cohesive story to me. I wasn't very invested in the characters, nor did I really connect with where the story was going. I really had a tough time keeping interested in this one. Hopefully, I will be able to enjoy Jackson's future books like I have loved her past ones!

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for granting me access to With My Little Eye. Unfortunately, this one didn't work for me. I was intrigued by the premise but the execution was a miss. I didn't connect with any of the characters, there were many subplots, and the ending left me with several unanswered questions.

Meribel Mills, an actress, with her daughter Honor move to Atlanta. Meribel has a stalker and he has followed her to Georgia.
This book has a lot of twists. An excellent read.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC and to the publisher William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Meribel is famous. Crazy fan things happen all the time but when she starts receiving threatening letters from a fan who wants her all from himself, she tries not to immediately panic. When they become more graphic and hostile then things around her house seem different or smell different, she decides it's time for she and her daughter to move from LA to Atlanta.
It takes no time for her to get the eerie sense that she's being watched or followed and when the letters start again, addressed to her new home, then packages start to arrive she's terrified. She starts to become suspicious of every man in her life and watching her daughter closer. Who is lurking and who isn't who they may seem?
This was a little slow for me at times but had a lot going on with some of the characters and their relationships. It ties together fairly well at the end and was not what I expected to happen.

“With My Little Eye” by Joshilyn Jackson was an edge of your seat story that kept you guessing all the way though.
Maribel has someone watching her, so she packs up her and her daughter and moves to a new place. As she begins to make friends with the people in her building she feels the strange feeling that her stalker is close to her. As the story unfolds more secrets come to light.
This story was an interesting story that you didn’t want to stop reading. Would highly recommend.

I was able to read this book early thanks to NetGalley. I enjoyed Joshilyn Jackson’s last two books, but this one felt incomplete and not as tight a story in comparison. In fact, it felt like she had two distinct ideas for psychological thrillers and mashed them into one. As a result, some of the characters were particularly dry and not well developed. I appreciate the main character POV, and her daughter’s POV, but beyond that, chapters with other characters’ points of view were a slog, even just icky at times. The end was quick and just left me hanging. Sadly more like 2.5 rounded up to three, but I’d read this author again. I think it was a victim of cramming too much in, and separated would have been better realized, so I have hope for her next novel. #netgalley

Where this stalker-plot thriller starts and ends is both predictable and a completely wild ride. My favorite part was the neurodivergent teenage heroine whose POV really takes off in the second half. I did a double-take at the plot twist and had to read the lines a few times to be sure I'd caught it, but wow! I think this book will be a great fit for some and not for others; check content warnings.

Meribel, an aging actress who is being pursued by a stalker, decides to move from CA back to her home state of Georgia in an attempt to get away from the stalker she has named Marker Man due to his use of scented markers in the letters he sends her. She connects with her male neighbor, reconnects briefly with her ex husband and has an ex boyfriend who decides to come for a visit, all resulting in several possibilities for how and why her stalker has found her so quickly in her new home and city.

Fast paced and twisty. You won't see the end coming!

This was a DNF for me. I was really looking forward to this book as I loved her previous one. I got 20% in and just couldn’t do it. It was too slow for me and the characters just fell flat.