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I’m looking forward to telling you my thoughts on this story.

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My Review

I like a strong female protagonist and though Emma is only 10 years old, she’s a smart, tough, young lady.

She’s had to be. The psychic abilities she inherited from her grandmother have shown her visions of a horrific killer. A killer of young girls.

Emma’s teacher, Christina, overhears her tell a friend about her visions and turns to Detective Hank Apple for help. The situation is dicey as they have a romantic history that ended badly. She’s trusting him to handle Emma with kid gloves while not letting the parents know what they are up to.

Emma’s father wants to hear nothing about her abilities and her mother is for the most part indifferent, so Emma puts her trust in Christine and Hank to protect her from the killer, who is now coming for her.

Even without the psychic elements in this story, it would be a hair raiser. There’s nothing more evil than a killer of children and I thought Emma was very brave and resourceful. She was believable and endearing. A wonderful character.

Hank and Christine were a mess. They’d had a previous relationship that ended when Christine found him in bed with another woman. His claims that it was all part of his job didn’t fly with her and she dumped him.

Now that they are working together to protect Emma from the killer, they stumble over each other, denying the sparks that still ignite when they are together. I was worried they wouldn’t pull it together before someone else got killed.

I like flawed characters. We all are in some way and it makes the story more real. Just like Emma’s parents are flawed. You’d think they would be more worried when the killer tries to abduct her and fails. Yet, they still stay in their home, along with Emma.

 That added to the suspense as the killer was now focused on Emma. He had to get her before her visions revealed his true identity. He would be coming back.

I watch a lot of suspense and thriller movies, so I could almost visualize the story as it played out. It was chillingly executed and kept me rapt to the final page.

4 STARS

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I Can See You

“Emma stuck her face to the window to watch the rain. Lightning in the background drew a fiery specter in the sky while her eyes traced the water droplets running down the pane like tears.” Emma Willis is ten years old and has a secret. She not only inherited her grandmother’s power of sight, she can accomplish much more. Like most children without siblings growing up amongst adults, she is precocious yet at times lonely. When a murderer is loose in Newark, a maniac with a thirst for killing little girls, she begins to understand why her Granny Dottie called her sight a curse. She will need all her powers to catch a killer and help the people in her life: Detective Hank Apple, her teacher Christina Tyler, and her little family of three. Only … the madman knows who she is!

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Author Joss Landry