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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
***** I received this book as a free audiobook from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
How important is sight? When all sight is gone people have different ways to correct it. However, some technology could be used in bad ways! Even in murder!
This book has a very futuristic feel. It is a mystery that looks at sight and how it can be manipulated. It was a very different type of book than I typically choose to read.
As I am reviewing the audiobook, I will mention the narration was easy to listen to.
How important is sight? When all sight is gone people have different ways to correct it. However, some technology could be used in bad ways! Even in murder!
This book has a very futuristic feel. It is a mystery that looks at sight and how it can be manipulated. It was a very different type of book than I typically choose to read.
As I am reviewing the audiobook, I will mention the narration was easy to listen to.
4.5/5, but given a 5 because an average of 3.61 is far to low for this book.
This book reads like a movie. The world building felt very similar to Minority Report.
I could easily picture someone like Idris Elba in the lead role. The pacing, the story, the characters are all very cinematic.
My only real complaints were it was a bit slow out of the gates, and I'm not sure that I really believe that the character who provides the twist towards the end could actually pull it off. The ending was also a bit abrupt.
With that being said I would totally dive into another novel based in this world.
This book reads like a movie. The world building felt very similar to Minority Report.
I could easily picture someone like Idris Elba in the lead role. The pacing, the story, the characters are all very cinematic.
My only real complaints were it was a bit slow out of the gates, and I'm not sure that I really believe that the character who provides the twist towards the end could actually pull it off. The ending was also a bit abrupt.
With that being said I would totally dive into another novel based in this world.
3.5 stars
This was a very unique dystopian/post-apocalyptic story. Everyone in the world lost their vision in recent years but only some people were given devices/implants that allow them to approximate sight. In this backdrop, detective Mark Owens investigates a murder that hits close to home on more than one level. The suspense built from the start, with a well-crafted resolution at the end.
My main complaint about the book (aside from the narration) was that it served two masters— explaining the setting/world building while also investigating the murder mystery. It flipped back and forth a lot and was at times difficult to adjust with the transitions.
*Thanks to Minotaur Books and NetGalley for the advance audio copy for review.
This was a very unique dystopian/post-apocalyptic story. Everyone in the world lost their vision in recent years but only some people were given devices/implants that allow them to approximate sight. In this backdrop, detective Mark Owens investigates a murder that hits close to home on more than one level. The suspense built from the start, with a well-crafted resolution at the end.
My main complaint about the book (aside from the narration) was that it served two masters— explaining the setting/world building while also investigating the murder mystery. It flipped back and forth a lot and was at times difficult to adjust with the transitions.
*Thanks to Minotaur Books and NetGalley for the advance audio copy for review.
What if the next pandemic meant the entire population went blind? That is exactly what happened seven years ago – it took a matter of months but then it was complete darkness. Even babies were being born without their sight. Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding, but he lost his wife. The world adapted by creating a device called a “vidder” which allowed people to see via an implanted device. Since the device came out criminals have been complaining they couldn’t see the suspect, or their device blacked out, but no one has every believed them, including detective Owens. That is until he sees it as well. As Owens heads down the rabbit hole, he wonders if he will be able to figure this out when he can’t even trust himself.
This book was fun and held my interest. I didn’t really enjoy the pacing at the beginning as I felt like it was building rather slowly, but then it picked up towards the second half. I didn’t want to put it down as I wanted to know what happened. Besides the pacing this story worked really well. It was an original plot and the twists were enjoyable.
Special thanks to @netgalley and the publisher @stmartinspress for my advanced e-arc in exchange for an honest review. This one isn’t out until next April 4th but start preparing for it now. It’s a real page turner.
This book was fun and held my interest. I didn’t really enjoy the pacing at the beginning as I felt like it was building rather slowly, but then it picked up towards the second half. I didn’t want to put it down as I wanted to know what happened. Besides the pacing this story worked really well. It was an original plot and the twists were enjoyable.
Special thanks to @netgalley and the publisher @stmartinspress for my advanced e-arc in exchange for an honest review. This one isn’t out until next April 4th but start preparing for it now. It’s a real page turner.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
This book takes absolutely ages to get going and the set up takes nearly half the book .The bits I was most interested in were the effects of the blindness epidemic on the population ,once they had their electronic vision back life seemed much as normal and was far less interesting .
It’s a rather blokey book lacking much by the way of character development which is what I enjoy in a novel even a sci fi of dystopian book
The author has a clear easy to read prose style
The story picks up once the narrator takes off his video vision and there are some exciting sections towards the end just as I was tempted to give up on the book
I read an early copy on.NetGalley uk The novel is published in uk on 4th April by Little Brown Book Group Uk
It’s a rather blokey book lacking much by the way of character development which is what I enjoy in a novel even a sci fi of dystopian book
The author has a clear easy to read prose style
The story picks up once the narrator takes off his video vision and there are some exciting sections towards the end just as I was tempted to give up on the book
I read an early copy on.NetGalley uk The novel is published in uk on 4th April by Little Brown Book Group Uk
Thomas Mullen is an author I’d never come across before, but his other books have gotten rave reviews. And this one had an intriguing premise: imagine a world where in the course of a few months, every human being is blinded. (That’s a lot easier to do now after the COVID pandemic.) The next step is a little bit less plausible: imagine that scientists come up with a way, using a device implanted in your head, to allow people to see again.
That’s implausible not because scientists can’t create amazing solutions, but because of the very possibility that such devices, connected to the net, could be manipulated. And that’s the heart of this imaginative science fiction / police procedural set in the near future.
A device that not only replaces your vision but “enhances” it by showing you the nearest restaurants, the local weather and so on is almost certainly going to be used for evil purposes. And it is.
I won’t give the main plot line away — suffice it to say that this is a well-crafted, gripping novel with characters that have some genuine depth. The author has taken a sci-fi premise and run with it, imagining all the issues that would come up in such a world. A world, by the way, that I would never want to live in.
Riveting thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in suspense. Several years ago everyone lost their sight but technology has made it possible to see again. That is, until someone starts hacking into that technology to commit murders. The suspense and real life potential for this made the plot believable. Interesting read. Definitely recommend! Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read an advanced copy!