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Think what you see is what you get? Better think again.
Waking up is the pits when you come to in a hospital with a broken arm, a colorful assortment of abrasions and contusions, and a face swathed in bandages. It’s even worse if you can’t remember what hit you.
The bad and the ugly are crime reporter Amanda “A.J.” Gregson’s business. But learning she had a ringside seat for an explosion that killed two agents of the Continental Intelligence and Investigative Service (CIIS), incinerated an entire block of warehouses, and did so much damage to her eyes they had to be surgically removed? Well, that gives the darker side of life a whole new meaning.
Haunted by elusive nightmares, A.J. waits for her transplant and struggles to remember the events leading up to the fateful night of September 4, 2075. Weeks crawl by without a glimmer, before memory finally floods back the night before surgery, every detail brutally clear.
The explosion had been the work of the Ferrymen.
“The Ferrymen. My not-so-magnificent obsession for more than a year. Only a cataclysm could have made me forget. I guess you could call them hitmen. You could also call Einstein a math whiz. Think ruthless. Think unstoppable. Think killers so proficient ‘caught the ferry’ was fast replacing ‘bought the farm’ in common usage, and you have the Ferrymen in a nutshell.”
The transplant surgery goes off without a hitch—welcome news, because A.J. is raring for a rematch with Hell’s Boatmen. But contrary to popular belief, what you see isn’t always what you get. Take her new eyes, for example. Those baby blues may look perfectly normal, but they possess a power that turns her world upside down—the power to see into the hidden dimensions of the human heart.
When the Sight unmasks the mastermind behind the Ferrymen, the unveiling is as stunning as it is unbelievable. The revelation sets her on course for a second head-collision with evil. Will she survive the final encounter?
My Review:
As far as genres go, Amanda's Eyes is right up my alley. It's set in the near future (so it's a feasible reality to me), has a touch of paranormal and a LOT of mystery and suspense. However, I wasn't expecting it to grab me by the throat and keep me in its clutches! Amanda's Eyes opens with AJ in the hospital, in pain, blind and with amnesia of how she got there. Kathy DiSanto makes it so real and so terrifying that I was afraid to close my eyes at night, in fear I'd never open them again (since I don't live in 2075 doctors can't grow me new eyes yet!)
The story speeds along, with AJ being protected from the Ferrymen while busily trying to hunt them down at the same time. To top it off she discovers that her new eyes allow her to see people's true personality, their inner hatred and despair. Will AJ expose the Ferrymen before they hunt her down and make her one of their victims? It ends rather abruptly, but otherwise it was an amazing read!
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Award-winning author Kathy DiSanto wrote her first novel in 1997. That year, she published two romances with Bantam’s Loveswept line. One of them, For Love or Money, won a 1997 Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award.
In 2012, Kathy self-published two futuristic thrillers. Amanda’s Eyes is a near-future paranormal thriller and the first novel in a series featuring crime reporter A.J. Gregson. Why Live? is stand-alone dystopian science-fiction.
Thanks to her day job as a communications specialist with a major university, Kathy has written more than two hundred features for print and the web.
She is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Alliance of Independent Authors, the Independent Author Network, the Independent Author Index, the Indie Writers’ Network, and World Literary Cafe.
When not writing, she takes brisk walks with Molly and Lucy (her rescue dogs), reads, and indulges in her latest hobby at the firing range.
I received this book to review through Beck Valley Books Book Tours, all the opinions above are 100% my own.
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ReplyDeleteHi, Sonya! Meant to stop by earlier, but the day kind of got away from me. But I finally got a chance to take a breath and thank you for taking the time to read and review AMANDA'S EYES! Can't tell you how happy it makes me to know you enjoyed the book!
ReplyDeleteawesome giveaway!! thank you :)
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Amazon book description, The Ferrymen are hit men, or so she thinks at first. We don't know yet if she survives the final encounter.
ReplyDeleteThe Ferrymen are hit men or so she thinks at first. We don't yet know if she survives the final encounter.
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