A riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about the ways our perceptions of reality can be manipulated.
Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people’s brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to hack it and change what people see?
Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens doesn’t believe her―until a similar murder happens in front of him. With suspects ranging from tech billionaires to anti-modernity cultists―and with the bodies piling up―Owens must conduct an investigation in which he can’t even trust his own eyes.
Thomas Mullen, the acclaimed author of Darktown and The Last Town on Earth , delivers an unputdownable crime novel about one man’s search for truth in a world of surveillance and disinformation that’s all too recognizable.
BLIND SPOTS
Thomas Mullen
I’m here with another thriller for Thriller Thursday, this time it’s a futuristic sci-fi thriller with BLIND SPOTS by Thomas Mullen.
Imagine a world where a pandemic renders everyone blind. Called The Blinding, it’s trouble for everyone but especially for the police officers who were made to protect the community.
There were many things created to adapt to being blind and Vitters is one of them. Vitters are attached to everyone’s temples, created to help people see.
But now there is a killer on the loose using the technology of the vitters to make him or her invisible. An invisible killer is a nightmare for police officers and soon the killer starts to rack up victims. A murderer hiding in plain sight.
The first couple of chapters of BLIND SPOTS are disorienting and there is too much information given at one time. There is a world that the author has to build that is similar to our world but impacted by something that is hard to grasp and even harder to articulate. Somewhere amid that is a mystery to solve.
It might have been too much to bring to fruition.
I got hung up on a few details that are minor and don’t interrupt the story. After the first few chapters, everything slowed down and started to make more sense. The whole effect felt inconsistent, and I came away with a mixed reading experience.
I gave BLIND SPOTS three stars, and I would try a Thomas Mullen book in the future.
Blind Spots is available now where books are sold.
Thank you to Netgalley, Macmillan Audio, and St. Martins Press for the advanced copies!
BLIND SPOTS…⭐️⭐️⭐️
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