Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for providing this book, with my honest review below.

Watch Us Fall was wild, morphing from an eerie missing person’s case and study in female friendships into a tense look at a women whose demons define her and fuel her obsession.

The story starts off running (literally) when Lucy’s roommate Addie, a ‘Sweetie’ a term used to describe the quarter of old Georgetown dorm mates turned best friends, tells Lucy after a returning from her run with bruises that her attacker looked just like her boyfriend Josh. Fairly quickly after that Josh goes missing and since he is the son of a deceased senator and presidential candidate it’s a big deal in D.C. We get to see Josh’s perspective in the months and days leading to his disappearance alongside Lucy’s in the present - though Lucy is a haunted woman who reflects on her family and friendships and the part Josh was playing in them.

It’s hard to outline exactly what happens here without giving it away, suffice to say this is melancholic, eerie, and disturbing in a way you won’t even realize until you’re near the end. More than a mystery, this is a window into someone’s mind who doesn’t invite visitors.