Book Review: The Silence In Her Eyes by Armando Lucas Correa.
Thank you to Atria Books/Simon & Schuster Canada for the physical ARC copy of this book.
Book Synopsis
This fresh take on classic psychological suspense centers on a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered.
Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn’t been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she’s blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice.
She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond her longtime housekeeper, her doctor, and her elderly neighbor. That all changes when Alice moves into the apartment next door and Leah can immediately smell the anxiety wafting off her. Worse, Leah can’t help but hear Alice and a late-night visitor engage in a violent fight. Worried, she befriends her neighbor and discovers that Alice is in the middle of a messy divorce from an abusive husband.
Then one night, Leah wakes up to someone in her apartment. She blacks out and in the morning is left wondering if she dreamt the episode. And yet the scent of the intruder follows her everywhere. And when she hears Alice through the wall pleading for her help, Leah makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength, and ultimately her sanity.
My Thoughts
The short chapters in The Silence In Her Eyes made this book a relatively quick read for me. I felt like there were a few times where the story dragged a bit and what was happening didn't add much to the overall novel and kind of took me out of the reading.
The writing had me believing one thing when something completely different was happening. The twist was pretty good, even though I did have an idea of what was going on.
There were some parts of the book that I wasn't sure how they fit in with the rest of the novel. This book did have me turning the pages and the short chapters kept the pace moving along.
It took a bit for me to get used to the descriptions of what the protagonist was seeing and I felt like sometimes this was a bit more description than what was needed for the reader to understand what things were like from the protagonists perspective. I also felt the book jumped around quite a bit and this affected my ability to get immersed in the narrator's POV and the writing.
Overall, a satisfying read and the twist and how the author revealed it had me bump the book up a bit in my rating.
My Rating: 3/5
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Book Details
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Publisher: Atria Books.
Publication Date: January 16, 2024
Genre: Thriller. Mystery. Suspense. Psychological Suspense. Mystery Thriller. Adult. Fiction.
Edition: Hardcover.
Pages: 272.
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