There are so many things I didn't like about I See You and nothing I liked. To start, all the characters are super annoying, most of all the main character Zoe. She is the most paranoid and hysterical character I've ever read. She is constantly jumping at the smallest thing, having the hairs of her neck tingling, freaking out, crying, thinking everyone is looking at her and following her. Reading her first person narrative is exhausting and exasperating. Her paranoia also includes the people around her, especially her daughter. Zoe is needy and clingy with her child, freaking out just because her daughter (who's 19!) is dating someone.
The detective in charge of this case, Kelly, is also unlikable. Kelly constantly badgers her sister about a crime that happened to her sister many years ago. She brings it up and is offended when her sister indicates that she doesn't want to talk about it and prefers to move on. It's like the crime happened to Kelly, from how traumatized she acts.
Even though this is supposed to be a thriller, I feel like the majority of time I'm just reading about the daily domestic dramas and inconsequential disputes of these people and their silly supporting characters. This goes on and on, completely killing any momentum in this book.
The thriller itself falls pretty flat too. The scenarios depicted in here are just outlandish and logistically could not happen in real life. If someone is bent on being a stalker, there are a lot easier ways to stalk someone every day than via the crowded subway. Also, it's not very scary, since the victim can just take a slightly different way home, or go at a different time, or sit in a different spot and all this would be avoided.
Once we get to the ending, it isn't that interesting or inventive. It feels like the author randomly pointed at a character and said "you're the bad guy!" If the bad guy was anyone else, the rest of the story could have been exactly the same. And after all that, the ending doesn't even wrap up everything, as if the author is angling for a sequel.
Sigh. I expected so much more from this book based on its positive reviews, but ultimately it disappointed me from beginning to end.
Readaroo Rating: 1 star
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