Close Your Eyes is a mystery and the start of a series featuring an interesting and unusual protagonist. Kendra Michaels was born blind and got her sight restored at age 20. She's also incredibly observant and inquisitive and uses those skills both as a music therapist for troubled kids and as a detective.
In this novel, she's helping find a serial killer. Then things get even nastier.
The first quality a suspense novel like this should have is to keep you turning the pages and Close Your Eyes does this very well. It's also well-written and the characters are reasonably well-developed (especially compared to some other suspense novels). But there are some problems. The biggest one is that it isn't entirely clear that a person who was born blind could learn to see at age 20. The research isn't too encouraging and this isn't even discussed. But there are some more minor ones (e.g. who wears a leather jacket when it's 110 degrees?).
Still, I enjoyed it and will probably read more in the series.
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