I Can See You

By: Karen Rose

Narrated by: Elisabeth S. Rodgers

Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times best-selling author Karen Rose delivers her latest pulse-pounding suspense novel, in which the line between the virtual world and everyday reality blurs when it comes to murder.

Eve Wilson's face was once scarred by a vicious assault. Terrified and ashamed, she escaped to the online realm, where she could choose the face she allowed people to see. Years later, her outer scars faded and inner scars buried, Eve has fought her way back to the real world and is determined to help others do the same. Now a graduate student moonlighting as a bartender, Eve researches the addictive powers of online communities. When her test subjects begin turning up dead as a result of apparent suicides, she doesn't know where to turn.

Homicide detective Noah Webster is one of the few people who believe the victims are connected murders. Eve becomes Noah's online guide and realizes that the handsome detective may have secret scars as painful as her own. As Eve and Noah chase a killer who is always one step ahead of them, together they try to overcome the tragedies of their pasts and learn to trust again. But they soon discover that danger is much closer than they think.

©2009 Karen Rose (P)2009 Hachette

completely formulaic and banal

To make things worse, the language is painfully clich?d. I mean, a computer could have written this with more style. Sadly, I was crossing the Pacific and had this audio book and the airline magazine, so I listened as long as I could stand it. The airline magazine was better written.

This book has it all - and that's not good

A local ladies' magazine profile of a handsome police officer sets off a melee of murderous envy and other mayhem ensues. A serial killer with a sick alcoholic mother - actually an abundance of alcoholic mothers here, a scarred but resilient victim/crimesolver, a cop with a family killed in an auto accident struggling to learn to love again and falling in love with pivotal person who keeps supplying information. (Although you would imagine that this would keep him off the case or at least cause him to postpone the relationship until after the case is solved, these people don't seem to care - I am supposing because without them together, there would be no sex scenes.)

I could have written this, and I imagine you could've too. There is not even a brilliant solution - someone finally checks up on something fairly obvious. I bought it for a long book for travelling - not for brilliant literature - but it was over-dramatically read and formulaic to the point of silliness.

Although the length and the online gaming idea may be tempting, I recommend you avoid this book unless you have never read a modern murder mystery before.

This is my opinion and i'm sticking to it

It normally doesn't take me long to finish an audiobook. This one took me a long while, for the reason because it was too long to hold my interest, and it was just too long for this type of story line. I had to force myself to finish it.

Don't get me wrong, I usually enjoy a Karen Rose novel, but this one was built on pity. I am as empathetic as the next person but the self pity in each character in this book really started to grate on my nerves. This book just needed more suspects, more chase, more mystery. definately MORE MYSTERY. And less personal sad stories. The narrater got me through the book. She was preetty good. This is my opinion and i'm sticking to it