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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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Meribel Mills. a film and TV actor, has moved from LA back to her hometown of Atlanta to escape a stalker, raise her adopted daughter, Honor, and work on a on TV drama. There are numerous men and women who are suspect and on Meribel's radar who could be haunting her: Cooper the new neighbor; his ex girlfriend, Meribel's ex-husband; her new sex interest, Cam; possible the homeless young woman who befriends her daughter? Armed with a gun and murder techniques she learned in her films, Meribel feels confident she can protect Honor and herself. Honor is a well-developed character that is the observant and steady constant in Meribel's life.

With My Little Eye fits the current trend in light thriller books that read like a script for a Netflix series.

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Thank you to the publisher, the author and NetGalley for this ARC! This book was really enjoyable, but it did get confusing in some parts….I would be willing to read more from this author.

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Another hit from Joshilyn Jackson! It may be my favorite book from her so far! Meribel is an actress, single mother to Honor and has a stalker. They move to Atlanta to get away but it isn’t far enough.

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Meribel moves to Georgia with her daughter from LA all the way to escape from an obsessive stalker. She has no clue as to who could be that stalker and now every man in her life from her ex-husband to ex-boyfriend to current neighbor seem like a possible candidate for that stalker. There are multiple storylines which make readers think like they could be connected but end up being completely irrelevant which just made it like unnecessary buildup that led nowhere. Having enjoyed the author's previous book, this felt slow and the twist at the end wasn't great either. I wished there was more detail and better closure to multiple pieces that needed more addressing.

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With My Little Eye was my first book by Joshilyn Jackson. It had great promise. The beginning was a little slow but about the middle it really picked up and had me invested.
Meribel is a well know actress that has moved from LA to Atlanta to get rid of a stalker. Her daughter, Honor, adopted and on the spectrum, I immediately fell in love with.
There were a few characters that I feel could have been left out as they really made no impact on the storyline. The ex for sure.
While I was highly anticipating finding out the “who done it”, I feel like the ending sort of fell flat. There could have been an epilogue or another character or two to really finish this up nicely. It left me with a lot of other questions.

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow/Custom House for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

To be published: April 25, 2023

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Very lifetime movie-esque! I really really liked the first half of the book but the ending fell a little flat. Would still recommend for sure though! Solid 4 stars!

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I enjoyed the first half of this book so much, but didn’t feel like the ending completely delivered. However, I was totally invested in the characters and loved them, so it’s kind of a conflicting review for me. This is kind of like a Lifetime movie, and if you go into it expecting that, you will enjoy this fun stalker thriller.

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Enjoyed this book. It was a little slow for me at the beginning but once we really got into the story, I couldn't stop reading.
Was not expecting the end. Would have liked a bit more at the end. But other than that, it was a good book.

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I really enjoyed this one! It started out a little slow but about a third of the way in it really picked up and I finished the rest of the book almost in one sitting. The twists were perfectly timed and I found myself always wrong with my guesses. The only thing is I wish we would have found out the true identity of “marker man” and his reasons for stalking Meribel instead of the abrupt ending. But overall I really enjoyed this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow and of course the author, Joshilyn Jackson for the advance digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

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All I can say is wow. I could not put this book down! I had to know what was going to happen to Meribel and her daughter as her stalker got closer and closer. A great read.

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This was such a dark story, and I kept thinking it would get better. Sadly, it didn’t. It just didn’t hit the mark with me.

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With my little eye was a fast paced speed read book for me, multiple character points of views and some great twists. There’s been lots of stories about stalkers and this one is different creepy yet wait a second . Great read! I do love the way Joshlyn Jackson’s book titles are weird little catch phrase nursery rhymes!

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As always thank you netgalley and the publisher for thos arc copy of the book. This book didnt give me enough it just didnt do it for me it was a slower thriller. I was hoping it would be a little more fast pace and was thinking there was going to be more things happening in this book then what there was. Its not what im looking for in a book but i do think overall it was ok thats why i gave it 3 stars

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