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Jade’s Rating: 4.5 Stars
Jade’s Review:
“It happened so quickly Cayce only experienced the event through instincts, like an animal. The flash was so bright, Cayce gasped, squeezing his eyes shut. The scent of ozone filled the air. Hair stood up on the back of his neck, tickling. The rumble of the thunder deafened, so loud and close it drowned out his scream. And the sharp break of the tree branch above his head was akin to the crack of a whip.”
For starters…such an awesome cover! Having a good cover is so important. I would buy this book just because the cover is so cool.
(I’ll just go ahead and warn everybody right now…I can’t seem to write a review without giving away spoilers so be ye warned: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD!)
I enjoyed this book. I always forget how thrilling and suspenseful thrillers and suspense novels can be (LOL) until I read one again. This was another book that was hard for me to put down, especially after Luke was kidnapped. Will he be rescued…or will he be killed just like the two girls? Edge of your seat stuff here, guys.
We have Cayce D’Amico – father to seven-year-old Luke, waiter, just your ordinary, average guy who happens to be gay – who gets hit in the head with a tree branch during a nasty storm. Immediately upon waking, he knows things about people that he shouldn’t know and he can see visions. Classic ordinary guy turns psychic plotline.
What I appreciate the most about this book is the internal struggle we see in Cayce as he battles with himself about his newfound power and what he should do about it and how he should use it. The visions keep him up at night. He doesn’t want them, he wishes they would go away, and he begins to avoid sleep in an effort to avoid these visions he doesn’t want. Yet he feels something like responsibility to try to help the families of the missing girls since he has seen where their bodies are buried. He tries to go to the police, and like a rational person, the detective on the case doesn’t believe him. At best, he isn’t believed; at worst, he’s a suspect, called the devil, and such things. He can’t carry on as if all is normal. It affects his job, his parenting, his entire life. It’s this ability and the story in the newspaper about him which leads the killers to kidnapping his son, and he reacts like any terrified parent. His struggles, his fears, all of it is portrayed realistically and well.
Want to know the character I disliked the most in this book? It wasn’t either of the killers. I actually sympathized with Ian and Myra. (It doesn’t make what they did any less wrong, of course, but I understand them.) No, it was Sarah D’Amico, Cayce’s mother, who really grated on my nerves. She criticizes practically every single thing Cayce does and then she allows her grandson to do something so ridiculously stupid. She is the reason he was kidnapped. What kind of a grandmother is she? *rant over*
If I had one criticism…and it’s not really a criticism, I suppose, as much as a personal preference… it’s that there are so many different characters’ POVs used throughout the book. We have a lot in Cayce’s POV, some in Dave’s, some in Luke’s, some in Myra’s, some in the murdered girls’, and some in Detective Simmons’s POV. It’s kind of like when you watch a show like CSI where they show you in the beginning what happened from the victim’s POV, and then you follow the detectives/agents for the rest of the show while they try to solve it. Except that we get the POV of the psychic that nobody trusts along with the unambitious reporter and a cameo of the detective and even the victims pop in once in a while. There was just a lot going on, but the overall writing style flows well and makes it an easy read.
If you enjoy nail-biting suspense and edge of your seat action, with a little romance thrown in, give Third Eye a try. Well worth the read.
*I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
