All Seeing Eye

De: Rob Thurman

Narrado por: Jeff Hoyt

The New York Times best-selling author of the Cal Leandros series delivers a bold new supernatural thriller where one man’s extraordinary abilities come with an equally phenomenal cost.

Picking up a small, pink shoe from the grass forever changed young Jackson Lee’s life. Not only did its presence mean that his sister Tessa was dead - murdered and stuffed in the deep, black water of a narrow well - but the shoe itself told him so. Tessa’s death triggers an even more horrific family massacre that, combined with this new talent he neither wants nor can handle, throws Jack’s life into a tailspin. The years quickly take him from state homes to the streets to grifting in a seedy carnival, until he finally becomes the cynical All Seeing Eye, psychic-for-hire. At last, Jackson has left his troubled past behind and found a semblance of peace.

That is, until the government blackmails him. After Jackson is forced to help the military contain the aftermath of a bizarre experiment gone violently wrong, everything he knows about himself will change just as suddenly as it did with his little sister’s shoe.

And while change is constant...it’s never for the better.

©2012 Robyn Thurman (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Thoroughly enjoyed!

This book was on sale so I bought it and I am glad I did. It was very good and I enjoyed it. It delves into the spiritual and I thought that was really cool. The main character, Jackson, is a snarky, unwilling psychic, who had a terrible childhood. HIs psychic gift is anything but a gift to him and it gets him into an interesting situation.

Annoying antihero.

All Seeing Eye was a slow to develop story with so much exposition that by the time any action started I hardly cared. The story was told in first person and clumsily tried to sound colloquial by using slang, wisecracks, and sarcasm. This had little effect. I never believed the main character, and I found him annoying (the narrator only made things worse). In my opinion, the world created in this story felt artificial and flimsy.

Characters Unlikeable, Story Good

On the surface, this book should have been perfect for me. A mystery. Powerful and emotional story. Elements of the supernatural.

However, the main character is relentlessly sarcastic and smart ass. The author explains this trait, so it is reasonable to think that someone might be this sarcastic after such terrible experiences and such a burdensome "gift." But I just loathed listening to the main character's dialogue. I stuck with it, because I wanted to find out who the bad guy was, but it was a painful experience.

I think Rob Thurman could have communicated an equally unhappy and jaded character without this extreme number of smart-aleck comments.

An "All nighter" for sure.

The author is very inventive. I can't wait For his next book. keep the All seeing eye.

Dark non-supernatural supernatural story...

I was quite surprised at how much I liked this book. It is quite dark and it isn't full of various supernatural beings trying to have sex with each other (what you usually find in this genre). It actually felt more like a mystery than an urban fantasy, or ghost story. Actually, it wasn't a ghost story at all, and barely an urban fantasy... there are no special abilities here, other than those of the main character, and the only other 'oddity' in the setting was the technical capability that caused the 'mystery' in the first place (so, in many ways, it is closer to sci-fi supernatural than fantasy supernatural).

The characters are extremely well-drawn (well, the main ones anyway), and we like the good guys and we even understand the bad guys, to a point. I almost hate to say it but I was surprised to find out it was a female author (though that explains the very fully fleshed main character). Yes, that is sad, but the bulk of the women writers I read in this genre are always going on about who is wearing what, how hot a particular man is, and discussing the color and movement of characters' eyes. None of that here - just a dark story with a sad premise and a satisfying conclusion.

The narration is very good. There isn't any sex or swearing, but there is some violence, though it was not extreme. I looked for more books by Thurman when I finished this one.