Review: Dark, thought-provoking, and original
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2013
This is a really good book. I was eager to read it after seeing the author's YouTube video describing what the book is about. Even with nearly 500 unread books on my Kindle, I decided to download this one and I have to say I'm pleased I did. I enjoyed it. I liked the idea behind it, and the way it is written really brought the characters to life. I could almost believe these were real people.An Eye For An Eye For An Eye (the title itself also caught my interest!) is about Simon Moralee. He has a gift. He can touch a dead person--a person who has been murdered--and immediately see in his own mind the killer's face. His gift has become useful to the police in solving crime. The country, the world even, described in Marc Nash's book is not as we know it now, it's different, has been changed. I think it's set in a time in the future. Moralee's gift has gone some way to changing the way the country deals with crime. It's a very grim environment described in this book.Simon Moralee lives a privileged life in the ravaged country. He has minders. He is under constant surveillance, for his own protection. His life, however, has never been at risk. Things change when one day he attends an alleged murder scene and is unable to see the killer's face in his mind. Has he lost his gift? The situation goes from bad to worse when we meet the character Harding. He is gifted too, in a different way, and the novel takes a disturbing twist.This is dark fiction, the subject matter is not pleasant, but I enjoyed reading it because it is quite original and told in a thought-provoking way.Be warned, this is literary fiction and the author seems to have scoured the dictionary for many uncommon and rarely used words. You may find yourself looking for a dictionary quite often while reading it. I did!I will be looking out for more of this author's work. An entertaining, if somewhat dark read.