This title keeps you guessing for a bit. I knew one character was somehow connected to the mobster like family trying to get Becki back. But, I didn't suspect how!

Interesting read overall.

I couldn't get fully into this book and so kept starting and stopping reading this. I haven't finishedit. That said it was written well.

"𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞. 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭-𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝."
This one was a slow burner. I found the first 40% a little dull if I'm honest.
But then it really picks up. Plenty of shocks and suspense. There was also a lot going on aside from the main storyline, which made for an interesting read.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to review this.

Thankyou to NetGalley, Inkubator Books and the author, Jane Renshaw, for the opportunity to read a digital copy of Watch Over Me in exchange for an honest and unbiased opinion.
The extremely excessive bad language I could have done without. That being said, I did enjoy the storyline.

An interesting dark thrilling book that takes many turns. I struggled at some points with the language and writing sytle, but it takes many twist and turns that I kept going. Not something I think I would normally pick up but glad that I got the chance to read it. Thanks NetGalley for the ARC.

Watch over me by Jane Renshaw.
A dark and moving read. It does have a lot of bad language. I did find it slow in places. But wow didn't expect that. 4*.

This was a well written story and keeps you guessing for awhile. The only problem is the language can be hard to understand if you are not Scottish. I enjoyed the ending!

I tried my best to get into this book however I had to DNF at 20% because I found myself losing focus and the book just was not keeping my attention, I will keep this book on my shelf and may come back to visit it on a later date.

Stunning dark psychological thriller!!
Brilliant story, couldn't put it down until the ending.
Thank you NetGalley for this lovely copy!!

3 for neutral, a book that I just couldn’t get into without being confused which ultimately led me to decide I couldn’t finish. Will update if I’m able to get into, understand, and finish.

This was my first read by Jane Renshaw. I requested this book as I liked the sound of it. The premise was interesting a sounded right up my alley. Oh, boy, was I wrong. Watch Over Me, started out alright but quickly went downhill. It was very confusing and I couldn’t connect to the book or the characters. I really wanted to love this novel, but I did not like it at all. The language (constant f-bombs) - the dialogue - the slang - it was all so bad and just too much! I’m not a fan, it just wasn’t for me. A review copy was provided by the Author and Publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the author, the book, or the content of my review.

This is an intricate tale of biological and adopted families.

Social services deem the notorious criminal family the Johnsons unfit to look after little Beckie after her mentally ill mother commits murder. She is removed from her biological family and subsequently adopted by Flora and Neil, however it is not a case of happily ever after. The Johnsons are enraged by Social Services assessment and vow to do anything to get Becki back whether by legal or non-legal means..

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, the sections written from the prospective of Lorraine Johnson using her Scottish slang was a little difficult at first but didn’t detract from the storyline.

Many thanks to the publishers and netgalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Holy Moly! Learn another curse word, would ya? Seriously, this book could've had more of an impact if I didn't get distracted by the continuous use of one word in particular. Now, I don't get offended easily, and the use of that word didn't offend me here, but good grief, after the oh, 200th time I read it, it started getting a bit distracting. Finally, I used that handy little magnifying glass to search it, and I got 500 hits. One word used 500 times in a book that is just over 400 pages. No other way to look at it, it's repetitive. Then we have the Scottish slang written into the story with a glossary at the end of the book. That was odd to me, but it didn't bother me like the repetition already mentioned. The story is a bit of a slow burn with some interesting twists. Truly, it's not a bad read, but it didn't wow me like I was hoping either. I would caution to be aware of the language, and if you have a problem with suspension of disbelief, I would move on because this does require a fair amount of it. In the end, I'm on the fence about the story and the author, so I'm not sure if I'd read a future book by Jane Renshaw or not.

Really wanted to enjoy this book but sadly I just got too confused from the very beginning. Didn't really get the dialogue. Gave it a go but sadly not for me.

Thank you Inkubator Books and NetGalley.

Flora and Neil are delighted when they are given the daughter they have always yearned for. Through a closed adoption Becki is removed from her family the Johnson's and into home of Flora and Neil. The Johnson's are an extremely dysfunctional extended family with a criminal background and are accused of neglect of Becki. However they are desperate to get their little girl back and Flora and Neil face life where at times they need to go into hiding, as well as having to watch over their shoulders as the family stalk them.
Alongside this, the case originally presented by the social worker is called into question when it surfaces that she may be responsible for hurting Becki herself.
I found this book initially quite slow and difficult to read at times when told from the side of the Johnson family, strong Scottish dialect as well as some strong language. However loved the twist at the end of this book.

This book just wasn't for me. The speaking style and the slang wordsreally turned me off and made me not want to finish it. I gave up pretty quickly.

I was given this book by NetGalley for an honest review -
Becky was taken from a bad home situation and adopted by Ruth.
Ruth worried about the adoption as she had issues from her childhood she was afraid would come to light.
Becky's parents don't want to loose her and they stalk Becky and her new family.
Follow along and be shocked as they devise new ways to ruin or change Becky and her new families lives.

This book makes you have to suspend your belief a little but the way it is done was amazing! I was expecting a little more typical thriller but realized quickly it was darker than i imagined! The author really makes you care about the characters like they are apart of your life. I was dying to know what happened to them and how the story would play out so I finished the book in one sitting. !

This is a macabre, twisted story of what should have been a happy ending. Flora and Neil, a decent hardworking couple adopt a child Beckie. The birth parents are violent, crazy, and unstable and the child was rightly taken from them for her own safety. Happy ending? Oh no, not going to happen. That’s just the beginning of fresh abuse as they want Beckie back and will stop at nothing to make that happen. Really fast-paced, twists and turns and a rush to read how it all turns out!

Thank you NetGalley and Inkubator Book for this eARC. This was the story of a little girl born into a low-class, dysfunctional, criminal family called the Johnsons. She gets taken away by Social Services and gets placed into a new family. The Johnsons cannot go anywhere near Beckie, the adopted little girl. But Lorraine, the grand-mother, the brain of the family ends up retracing Beckie and her adopted parents and that’s when the story gets intense.

As intense the plot was, it was a nightmare to read through the Johnson scenes and that Scottish slang. I literally had to read out loud in order to understand the dialogues. Beside that, the plot was strong, well thought out and the characters complex. My favorite character was by far Beckie, a little toddler with a doomed future but, thanks to her adopted parents Neil and Flora, her maturity, her intelligence, and her sense of observation, she turned into a bright young lady. Definitely the star of the book!

If you like psychological thrillers, this is a book I recommend.