Second Sight: Another Lesson in Mediocre Murder 101

Second Sight By Beth Amos

Overall rating: This book is a lesson in mediocre murder mystery101.

Have you ever got tired of reading the same sort of books all the time and just decided to grab a random book out of blue because you just wanted a change? Okay. Maybe not all of you. But I’m sure some have. This time around it was a mystery/paranormal/thriller called Second Sight By Beth Amos.
The write up on the back of the book was awfully vague. It was it was about a journalist Marlie Kaplan who lost her sight in a accident and the goes through a new sort of surgery to get her sight back. Yet she sees what no one else can, yet despite that, she jumpstarts into her career and get involved in a mystery. See what I mean. It’s really vague, and sadly the book was just about as exciting as the write up.

After the surgery Marlie finds that she can see auras. She can see color around them to tell if their sad, happy or just evil. Also after gaining her sight back, she witnesses a murder. It ‘s the murder of a woman she used to work with before she lost her sight.

So earlier I said that it’s a mystery paranormal thriller. Well that’s what it’s cataloged under at the local library, but you might as well ignore the paranormal part. The aura bit is mentioned in a couple chapters and then is completely forgotten making the concept meaningless to the story. Then the thrill can just be forgotten all together. This, is in fact one of the most boring mystery I ever read.

Overall the book is a who done it? Was it her ex husband? Was it the governor she’s doing the story on? Is it the cop who seems to be crooked? It’s the basic formula these books typically follow. But this one is so predictable, that this author should just be embarrassed to have this in print. I knew who it was at the half way mark in the book.

The good. I really can’t say anything good about it. When she went blind, I thought there would be real drama. But it just jumps to after the operation. The operation said a computer chip was put in her head? Now how exactly would make some one see? Well it seems no one in the book knows. The auras could of led us to something interesting rather than just filler for the book. After she got her sight back her husband is trying to legally take custody of her daughter away and there’s real distance between her and her daughter . Perfect formula for some drama to make you understand and care about Marlie. But just like the auras, it’s mentioned once and then never again, like it never happened. And the murder, you know after you read one even similar to this, you read them all. It’s mediocre murder mystery 101. When I read one of these, I want twists and turns, and things I can’t see coming. This didn’t do that.

I can’t really recommend this to anyone unless you like things like Nancy Drew and Murder She Wrote. And the worse thing about it, the book tries to sell it self as something dealing with the paranormal. Call me a geek, but I think when they put that that in the book, it should hold a purpose of some sort to the story. But the again, I just might be too much of nerd, and am letting it bug me too much. So Second Sight gets ¼ smoothie. Lowest rating so far. Worse than Jumper 3. That’s pretty bad.

¼ of smoothie out of four

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