"When Maddy Wight is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr. Angela Reynolds, she thinks it might just be her chance to get her career back on track. She travels to Angela's remote estate in the Scottish Highlands to hunker down and learn everything she can. But the deeper she digs, the more elusive the doctor becomes. Is there more hidden beneath the surface of the kaleidoscopic beauty industry than Angela wants to reveal? Sharing the estate is Angela's enigmatic business partner Scott, whose ...
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"When Maddy Wight is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr. Angela Reynolds, she thinks it might just be her chance to get her career back on track. She travels to Angela's remote estate in the Scottish Highlands to hunker down and learn everything she can. But the deeper she digs, the more elusive the doctor becomes. Is there more hidden beneath the surface of the kaleidoscopic beauty industry than Angela wants to reveal? Sharing the estate is Angela's enigmatic business partner Scott, whose mercurial moods change as quickly as the conditions on the darkening moors outside. Confined to the glass-walled house, Maddy can't shake the feeling of being watched. As objects go missing, handprints appear on the windows, and a stranger lurks in the grounds, she finds herself drawn ever closer to Scott. Returning to London once the book is finished, Maddy is excited for their future together. But her dreams are shattered at the book launch when Angela learns that Scott has leapt to his death from the Scottish cliffs"--
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Eye of the Beholder is billed as a reimagining of Hitchcock's Vertigo, and as someone who is not familiar with this story, I was intrigued to read more.
Maddy has travelled to a remote estate to visit renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr Angela Reynolds, who has commissioned her to ghost-write her new book. However, when Angela leaves her there alone and refuses to answer basic background questions, Maddy realises that she may have more on her hands than she realises.
Looking at the synopsis of Vertigo with the knowledge of hindsight, I would say that this follows some of the same themes and has a few of the same character names. This is very much a different story though and I enjoyed the foray into the ideas of beauty and society's perception of cosmetic surgery. The ending twist would be more obvious if you know the story, but I think it was fairly predictable anyway and I guessed what was going on very early into the novel. It was still fun to read though, the mansion in the middle of the Highlands made for a great setting for a thriller, with Maddy trying to learn about the backstory of Angela, the introduction of the mysterious Scott and creepy alarm system with things being misplaced, moved and lost throughout.
I did think that the relationship between Maddy and Scott seemed to move very quickly - it made the spiral into obsession and depression from Maddy in the present timeline feel a bit unrealistic. There's a lot of action in the later half of the book though and I did find it gripping - actually finishing it all in one sitting!
Overall, Eye of the Beholder is a gripping thriller, but it is a little predictable at times, even if you don't know anything about Vertigo. Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster UK for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.