I See You: The addictive Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

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This is a psychological crime thriller, and for someone like me, who loves psychological thrillers but isn’t a huge fan of crime and police procedural, I think this had the perfect balance. It's called retinitis pigmentosa and it's genetic, even in your case, where no one in your family has it. Essentially, the photoreceptor cells in your retina, the ones that turn light into electrical impulses for the brain, are dying." Maybe you're all better at guessing who culprits are, but I'm SO happy I didn't figure it out. That killer twist in the last chapter made it all worthwhile. I'll just say this... you think you know someone....but DAMN............ and DAMN...... (I watch the ID channel... Investigation Discovery which is basically a crime/thriller tv channel for those of you that don't know.... and this really reminded me of something that you would see on there).

Thank you to Netgalley and Little Brown Book Group for my ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review* Not the weirdly upbeat delivery ("So, guess who's going blind?"). Not the made-for-TV-movie approach ("There's something I need to tell you; are you sitting down?"). Not the downplayed, bratty teen approach ("So my eyeballs are rotting. Whatever."). All the ways bum people out. The more you blink, the longer we're here." She pointedly squirted fresh goop on the torture device and reinserted it onto the surface of my eye.

Prepare for tears. Gifts of talismans. Sudden and impassioned religious gestures such as the laying on of hands and benediction with holy water. None of this is likely to make you feel better. It may, in fact, freak you the hell out, and cause you to determine that this news is the kind best kept private. Just be sure you know what you're getting into. You may find yourself a grown-ass woman in a disguise holding a mobility cane. Stranger things have happened. Nodelman, P., & Reimer, M. (2003). The pleasures of children’s literature (3rd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Okay, listen," he said, sitting next to me on the edge of the bed and putting his hand on my arm. "You're great—" ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority) (2020a). Australian curriculum: English. Retrieved from: https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/english/. Accessed 25 August 2020.

Greg and Spitzky are informed that Gordon is pushing for a mistrial in light of a new abduction. They go to speak with Tommy Braun, one of Gordon's two surviving victims, but he becomes hysterical when he sees them. Was this a getting-to-know-you game? How much information was I supposed to offer about my childhood interests? Would he be inquiring next about my favorite ice-cream flavors? The disease usually begins by destroying your rods, responsible for night vision and peripheral vision, which explains you bumping into things and your trouble at nighttime. The degeneration of the cones, which are responsible for central vision, typically comes later on, though how much later depends on the individual patient." However...all my complaints about her first book, are gone in this one. I found this book a little more tangible to connect with and more plausible. It doesn't take many trips to the doctor to learn you can't believe them when they feed you that line. The electrodes didn't hurt exactly, but they were bulky and heavy and caused me to blink involuntarily. This was unfortunate—and a serious design flaw, I decided—because every time I blinked, the electrodes would pop out. Then the nurse would sigh in a castigating way and reinsert them, first covering the lenses with goop, whose purpose, I guessed, was to help transmit the electricity from my retinas. This goop made my eyes tear incessantly, which made me blink, which started the process all over again.I turned my head to the right and there, a few feet away, was Dr. Hall's big, meaty paw waving its sausage fingers. There is, of course, a whole cast of characters. Melissa, Zoe’s next door neighbor and best friend whom she has relied upon since the kids were little. Zoe’s kids, Katie a 19 year old with acting aspirations but not a lot of common sense and Justin, Katie’s older sibling who seems to have turned the corner after being in some trouble as a younger teen. Matt is Zoe’s ex-husband who stays very involved with his kids and seems to be the good one that got away. The story alternates between Zoe Walker's personal life (first person) and PC Kelly Swift's investigation (third person), with occasional interludes from a potential stalker (second person). Sunderland, J., & McGlashan, M. (2012). The linguistic, visual and multimodal representation of two-Mum and two-Dad families in children’s picturebooks. Language and Literature, 21(2), 189–210. It took me a little while to get into, yes, as I found the main character (Zoe) to be...less than endearing. If anything, I worried that I'd not like the book simply because I found her to be overly whiney. Thankfully, that clears up as you really get into the intricacies of what's going on.

The short chapters written in italics throughout the story were rather creepy and gave me the heebie-jeebies. At nineteen years old, Nicole C. Kear's biggest concern is choosing a major--until she walks into a doctor's office in midtown Manhattan and gets a life-changing diagnosis. She is going blind, courtesy of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and has only a decade or so before Lights Out. Instead of making preparations as the doctor suggests, Kear decides to carpe diem and make the most of the vision she has left. She joins circus school, tears through boyfriends, travels the world, and through all these hi-jinks, she keeps her vision loss a secret. this is a fun thriller, but it requires the reader to accept its premise without questioning its logic, and to suspend disbelief like a mofo. if you can do that, you'll have a good time. if you cannot, this is not the book for you. A] deliciously creepy tale of urban paranoia.”—Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10The whole thing was a massive waste of time. There was nothing wrong with my vision apart from near-sightedness; my regular ophthalmologist, Dr. Lee, had said so before she referred me here, "just to be extra sure." It had seemed like a fine idea at the time, but that was before I'd pissed away the better part of a summer afternoon in a waiting room. Boyle, M., & Schmierbach, M. (2015). Applied communication research methods: Getting started as a researcher. London: Routledge. Naidoo, J. C. (2008). Opening doors: Visual and textual analysis of diverse Latino subcultures in Américas picture books. Children and Libraries, 6(2), 27–35. Temple, C. A., Martinez, M., Yokota, J., & Naylor, A. (1998). Children’s books in children’s hands: An introduction to their literature. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

There's diversity of personalities in the characters. Kelly is an interesting police officer - with he own set of issues-on the London transport.I liked Kelly. She reminded me a bit of Havers in Elizabeth George's Linley and Havers series -- well meaning and smart, but often overly eager. There were lots of times during this book I felt I was reading a book written by someone who hadn't written before, the writing was amateur and the dialogue unbelievable in places. Koss, M. D., Johnson, N. J., & Martinez, M. (2018). Mapping the diversity in Caldecott books from 1938 to 2017: The changing topography. Journal of Children’s Literature, 44(1), 4–20. I found the descriptions of child abuse unnecessary and gratuitous and in my opinion, sometimes hinting at things is preferable for a reader than minute details of abuse.