alyssa cole when no one is watching review

People are disappearing and both Sydney and Theo encounter strange things happening in the night.

Also, as it turns out, the girl Sydney assumed to be Theo’s girlfriend, is actually his ex it’s complicated.Īs they dive into their research, events in the neighborhood are beginning to snowball. Theo’s persistent though and in a sort of dorky, yet charming way, he works his way through Sydney’s defenses and into her life.īefore she knows it, the two of them are working together on a daily basis. Sydney can see it happening around her, changing everything. Wealthy people swooping in and taking over urban neighborhoods raising home prices, tax assessments and rents for all, thus displacing the long-term residents in the process. As Sydney sees it, him and his Lululemon-loving live-in girlfriend are part of the problem. She doesn’t really trust him, or understand what his motives may be. She’s hesitant to accept help from Theo at first. A new neighbor, Theo, who just moved into the brownstone across from Sydney’s offers to be her assistant. Help comes in the form of a most unlikely source. It’s a big task, however, and she can’t do it all alone. With encouragement from her neighbors and friends, she begins to research the events and people she would like to cover. Sydney decides to create her own, truly historic, walking tour of the neighborhood. It’s hard to understand the history of a place while simultaneously ignoring the people who have lived there for generations. While on the tour she quickly realizes that the community she has lived in her whole life isn’t being represented. She’s a history buff and is curious to find out what the tour guide will cover. Needing a distraction from her life, Sydney Green, decides to take one of the over-priced historic walking tours of her Brooklyn neighborhood.

Alyssa cole when no one is watching review