by K. Webster
First published 2017
He never paid attention to Violet before. Then one day he does, and something in him locks on and will not let go. He catalogs the gold threads in her brown hair, the small crease that forms between her brows when she frowns, the exact route she walks to the same market every Saturday morning. He learns the sound of her breathing. He learns it up close, lying silent beneath her bed while she sleeps above him. He arranges his days around her schedule, her habits, the particular way she organizes her closet. He tells himself she is perfect. He tells himself she is his. Violet does not know any of this yet. The narrator of Notice, K. Webster's 2017 dark romance, is a man who has crossed every line and drawn new ones to justify it. The tension here is not whether he will act. It is how far he will go, and what happens to Violet when his obsession stops being quiet. This is a story that stays close to a deeply unsettling point of view and does not flinch. Readers who are sensitive to extreme sexual content, violence, or obsessive stalker behavior should consider carefully before picking it up.
Genres: adult, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-thriller, dark-romance
Vibes: claustrophobic, disturbing, intense, obsessive, unsettling
Tropes: obsessive-love, stalker-protagonist, unreliable-narrator
Period: 2017
298 pages · Paperback · K. Webster
Content warnings: sexual-content, violence