Title: EYES ON YOU
Author: Kate White
ISBN: 978 0061 5766 38
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 320
Source: Private Copy
After losing her on-air job two years ago, television host Robin Trainer has fought her way back and now she’s hotter than ever. With her new show climbing in the ratings and her first book a bestseller, she’s being dubbed a media double threat.
But suddenly, things begin to go wrong. Small incidents at first: a nasty note left in her purse; her photo shredded. But the obnoxious quickly becomes threatening when the foundation the makeup artist uses burns Robin’s face. It wasn’t an accident—someone had deliberately doctored with the product.
An adversary with a dark agenda wants to hurt Robin, and the clues point to someone she works with every day. While she frantically tries to put the pieces together and unmask this hidden foe, it becomes terrifyingly clear that the person responsible isn’t going to stop until Robin loses everything that matters to her . . . including her life.
Official Summary
27 March 2023
I become an instant Kate White fan when reading Have You Seen Me and I was super eager to dig into Eyes on You. This book starts a little slow and takes some time to with the build-up – but you can expect a wonderfully twisty read when you reach for this book. Eyes on You explores the rivalry and jealousy among Talk show hosts and it will keep you entertained as the women involved in this tale seems to have no limits at all.
Kate White brings her characters to life beautifully as she takes you backstage to the set of talk shows. I love the intensity of the story and how the author shares the character’s vulnerabilities. This book does not hold back and leaves you feeling part of the rivalry and ambition that drive these characters. After reading this book, you will look at talk show hosts just a little differently.
Robin Trainer has to fight her way back into the limelight but now she has everything she has always wanted. Her new shows ratings are climbing and her first book is a bestseller. Dubbed a media double threat, Robin is loving her life. Until things start going wrong. First small things start to happen, a nasty note left in her purse, a photo destroyed and creepy little gifts left in her office. Someone she works with does not like her, yet Robin is clueless about who she has offended. When things intensify Robin finds that this is more than she initially thought and that whoever is behind what is happening is not going to stop until Robin has lost everything important to her.
This book has a slow start, but once it starts to intensify you will not want to put it down. The author manages to keep you guessing even after Robin has a clear suspect and the final twist is brilliant.
I loved Robin – a successful, strong woman when the book starts, but as the story unfolds her insecurities surface and you are left seeing a woman who has not escaped the trauma of her childhood. Seeing the past come back to haunt her makes her realistic. The fact that she refused to walk away and insisted on fighting to prove herself added to her appeal.
There is something special about this author’s writing that I have not been able to find the word to express. She draws you into her story and keeps you invested as you race to the final page. I have to say, while this is a little different to the books I usually reach for, I loved every minute of reading this book.
If you are keen on a twisty thriller featuring a successful woman who is about to lose everything, then you will love Eyes on You – you can expect an entertaining read as the characters reveal their claws leaving you shocked at how far rivalry will take them.
Also By Kate White
Have You Seen Me
The key to her missing memories could bring relief—or unlock her worst nightmares.
On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives early to work in her Manhattan office, only to find that she’s forgotten her keycard and needs to have a colleague she’s never met let her in. When her boss finally arrives, he seems surprised to see her—because she hasn’t worked there in five years.
Ally knows her name, but little else, and it’s only after several hours in an emergency room and multiple interviews with the hospital psychiatrist that she begins to piece together important facts: she lives on the Upper West Side; she’s now a freelance personal finance journalist; she’s married to a lovely man named Hugh. But she still can’t recall what happened to her during the previous two days. When she learns that she’s experienced a dissociative fugue state, Ally tries to think of triggers and remembers that she’d been seeing a therapist about a traumatic event from her childhood, in which she came across evidence for a murder that was never solved.
Desperate to unearth answers, Ally focuses on figuring out where she spent the missing forty-eight hours. As ominous details of the two days pile up, so does the terrifying pressure: she must recover the time she lost before the time she has left runs out.
About the Author
Author bio from the author’s site
Kate White is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels of suspense: eight standalone psychological thrillers, including The Second Husband (June 22), and eight Bailey Weggins mysteries.
For fourteen years Kate served as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, which under her became the most successful magazine in single copy sales in the U.S. Though she loved her magazine career, she decided to leave nine years ago to concentrate full-time on another passion: writing suspense fiction.
She has been nominated for many awards in her media career, including an International Thriller Writers award. Her first mystery, If Looks Could Kill, was a Kelly Ripa Book Club pick and #1 bestseller on Amazon. She has been published in countries around the world.
Like many female mystery authors, Kate fell in love with the genre after reading her first Nancy Drew book, in her case The Secret of Redgate Farm.
Kate is a frequent speaker at libraries, book conferences and organizations, and has also appeared on many television shows, including The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and Good Morning America.
She is also the editor of the Mystery Writers of America Cookbook, as well as the author of several popular career books, including I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: How to Ask for the Money, Snag the Promotion, and Create the Career You Deserve, and the ground-breaking Wall Street Journal bestseller, Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do.
Kate, who is married and the mother of two children, divides her time between New York City and Las Flores, Uruguay.
Thank you for reading my review. I am loving Kate White and have just started Hush on Audible, so you can expect another Kate White review soon. Are you a fan? What is your favourite book? Leave a comment below. This author’s books are not easy to find locally, but her work is available on Takealot – often at a price, but if you keep an eye out there are specials on her books from time to time.
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