A young mother held captive with her children in an isolated house in the middle of a snow storm. Can she keep her children safe and escape the 'the corner' OR is this just all part of an over active imagination fuelled by the isolation and creepy house?
I managed to read this all the way through but did struggle at times. It kept me guessing and parts were creepy but I did find some of it quite far fetched and I found myself wanting the storyline to be sped up a bit in parts.
Overall still a good creepy read.

This book was wonderful! Captivating and enthralling. Kept me on the edge throughout! Really original too. A solid 5/5!

How best to describe Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra? Psychological Thriller? Yes. Suspenseful? Yes. Claustrophobic? Yes. Creepy as hell? Definitely.
The tension mounts chapter by chapter, but midway, Sierra moves the goalposts and you are left thinking "hang on, what's going on here?" Then, as we reach the final third, it all starts to make sense again.
We learn some of the heroines background throughout the story. These tend to break the tension, but can be a little annoying when they crop up just as things are getting interesting.
Not one of the characters in this book has a name. This should have been irritating, but I became so invested in the story, I stopped noticing.
Thanks to Netgalley, Viking Books UK and Penguin Random House for the eARC in exchange for this review.

This book starts with a mum who is home alone with her children. She wakes up in the night to find an intruder in her upstairs hallway.
She manages to grab her children and hide away from ‘The Corner’

I found the first part of the book a bit confusing and struggled to get into it.
I found it dragged out a bit until the mother managed to leave and get help.
It picked up a bit after that and became more interesting.
Overall I give this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Thank you to Penguin UK and Viking UK for an advanced reading copy of this book.

This is a brilliant thriller. Keeps you on the edge of your seat. The story line, which is seen through the eyes of a mother (with a complicated back-story) who is alone in a remote house in winter with two small children, takes on almost a dreamlike quality. We cannot be sure if she is experiencing reality or is suffering from prior events. The plot is very well constructed and with all loose ends tidied up; this page-turner makes for a very a very satisfying read. One of the best I have had from NetGalley - so many thanks

A fast paced chilling thriller! I really enjoyed this book. I picked this one up as I was looking for something different and this one surely delivered. The author created incredible suspense, and anxiety. I really felt for the mother and her children and could put myself in their shoes, wondering what I'd do in a similar circumstance. Thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for an early copy of this book.

Utterly menacing. A story of such a diabolical, otherworldly villain that it made my skin crawl reading about him. But is he real or just a figment of our heroine's imagination? Alone in a creaky old house, cut off in a snowstorm, the scene is set for some seriously scary happenings. The writing has a Stephen Kingishness about it - most notably the inner dialogue and the repetition of word play. This is used to great effect to build a human character struggling to survive a living nightmare. The whole read was creepy. I loved it & I'm excited to see what the author has in store for us next

Sharp little thriller

Initially I was somewhat confused for the first couple of chapters, perhaps this was the author's intention given the rather chaotic scenario: the ghostly figure appears walking through the house, daughter, son and items being directed to a hiding place. That being said I quickly warmed to the heroine who is mistreated by both her father in law and to some extent her husband.
The plot centres around a mother who is forced to protect her children against an intruder during a blizzard. Her escape and attempts to get the police on side are both traumatic and frustrating, I too questioned her psychological state. Is it all in her mind or was there really someone in the house. This is helped largely by to her internal critical voice. In essence Sierra does a great job in creating and sustaining suspense throughout the book with many surprises along the way

Thank you NetGallery

I have seen many reviews for this book, all saying how amazing it was and giving it high marks and I’m sure it does and will appeal to plenty. Unfortunately that doesn’t include myself.

It took me a bit to get into it properly, it was very slow and overly descriptive and veering off into the past far too much, with not much happening in the present, other than a mother hiding with her two kids from an intruder.
Eventually it did pick up, once she left the house to get help and I found it easy to read and I was invested in what would become of them all.

However, once she was in hospital, I slowly lost interest again and skimmed quickly over the last half of the book. A bit of a rushed anticlimactic ending I felt too. As ever Thank you to NetGalley and Pamela Dorman Books for the ARC in return for an honest review.

A very well written haunting, heart-stopping story from the very beginning. Can you imagine the terror of someone watching you and the entering what should be the safety of your home? Definitely not one for reading alone in bed! Excellent!

Absolutely terrifying from the first line to the last. I gulped it down, scared to stop, scared to carry on. Just scared! Blimey. This author knows how to create tense and pace and wrap it up in beautiful prose. What a book!

Very gripping, very creepy. I found the reveal of all the coincidences (esp the husband's death) a bit too neat, but it was a very addictive read!

Wowee, my heart is still racing after finishing this book. This had me so gripped I could not put this book down. Such a fantastic plot that is going to leave me looking over my shoulder forever!! A absolute must read!

Horrifying from the first strange noise, the anxiety intensifies as the mother tries to protect her children from the stranger in the house. With a snowstorm complicating any chance of help arriving or of escape the stress levels in the book escalate quickly and things become more and more confused as the mothers sanity is brought into question.

Do not read alone in the dark!

Finished reading five days ago and haven't stopped thinking about it since. I thought NIGHTWATCHING was going to be a white-knuckle survival thriller—which it was!—but I wasn't expecting the nuanced portrayal of trauma, the exploration of a complicated marriage, and the deep psychological dive into what it means not to be believed.

Genuinely frightening, and genuinely moving, this is surely going to be the biggest thriller of 2024.

This is a thriller you really don’t want to miss. It starts with six words you never want to read if you are alone at home and then it had me in it’s grip, heart racing, missing tube stops, up late to finish. Marvellous. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Very cleverly done, the start with the family hiding, hearing the intruder, was like a scary movie, and then as the story unfolds even I began to doubt if the intruder was real or imagined. But the suspense just keeps going until the final, doubts made real and heart rate returning back to normal. Definitely one I’d recommend, with thanks to Penguin and Netgalley for letting me read this.

A really gripping thriller. A mother and two children are stuck at home alone during a blizzard, or they think they are
Full of suspense and tension, this was a real page turner, with a totally shocking ending.

Th ank you to Net Galley, Penguin and Tracy Sierra for an advanced copy of this book

What an interesting book! I found it kept me going and I just wanted to know more. I enjoyed this book. Thank you to the writer, publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review it.

This book starts with a mum home alone with her two children when she sees an intruder. I found this really easy to get into and didn't want to put it down! The descriptive writing really makes you feel like you are right there with them, super tense and nervewracking. Nightwatching switches from current day to the past, I did find myself speed reading the latter, eager to get back to the main story. It leaves you constantly questioning what is true and who, if anyone is lying! I loved the twists and felt really satisfied by the ending.
I can't wait to read more by this Author.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for sending me an advance reader copy of this book.

The book starts suspensefully with a mother and her two children home at night when an intruder breaks into the house. Finding a hiding place in the remote old house, terror increases as the stranger purposefully searches and begins making threats.

The writer skilfully gets inside the main character, a mother desperately trying to protect her young children from the monster roaming her home. You feel her anguish as she tries to conceive plans to escape. There are flashbacks to her past which add depth to the story. Graphic descriptions of the old isolated house and its snowbound surroundings are gripping, ramping up the tension.

The first few chapters steadily outline the story, but it seemed a while before the plot moved on. And I would have felt more empathy if the characters had names, rather than being referred to as mother, husband, son, daughter. It was have made them seem more realistic.

However, this is a dark, gripping psychological thriller, making you question whether the mother is telling the truth, is someone watching the family, and what led to her husband’s passing. This debut novel is an incredibly compelling atmospheric thriller, well described, but too slow paced for me.