Lilibet Bombshell's Reviews > The Silence in Her Eyes

The Silence in Her Eyes is a thriller novel with a female protagonist that has a visual impairment casually known as motion blindness. She can’t see movement. She can only see things that stay still. Think of her eyes as a camera shutter.

While this makes for one heck of an interesting approach to a thriller novel, it’s a shame author Armando Lucas Correa (making his thriller debut) isn’t a more practiced thriller author. If he were, this novel might have been heaps better than it was. In its current incarnation, it was rather boring.

For a very short book (272 pages), I expected a great deal of suspense hemmed in by a brisk pace, an economy of words, and a completely tense atmosphere. Instead, this book feels uneven. It feels like this book solely exists so the author could write the ending (which is one heck of an ending, but still).

A book should feel like a journey. Instead, what we have here is an author’s first attempt at thrills and chills where it seems like there were two salient parts that had to be in place and then the author just wrote everything else around it.

You might like it. I feel like it’s going to be one of those books where it’ll depend on the reader. But it wasn’t for me.

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