I See You

By: Mary Burton

Narrated by: Bailey Carr

Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

A cold case heats up in this gritty, suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.

FBI special agent Zoe Spencer uses skeletal remains to recreate the faces of murder victims through sculpture. Though highly scientific, the process is also sensitive and intimate; she becomes attached to the individuals she identifies, desperate to find justice for each.

As Zoe examines old remains, she sees a teenage girl looking back at her - the victim in a cold case from over a decade ago. Zoe wants nothing more than to tell this young woman’s story and to bring her killer to justice.

Zoe’s case leads her to the victim’s hometown and to homicide detective William Vaughan, Zoe’s on-again, off-again lover. As the two become more involved in the case, they quickly realize that it isn’t as cold as they first believed: someone’s still out there hunting women. And with more women gone missing, time’s running out. Can they work together and stop this madman before he kills again?

©2019 Mary Burton (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Okay, but kind of weak

Story was predictable & hard to get into. Found myself having to rewind to listen to parts that just would not hold my attention.

Narration was a big downer for me. The male voices sounded like someone reading to children to demonstrate "this is what the big strong man sounds like" and the women either sound like Nurse Ratched
or simpering ingenues. Okay if you're looking for something to pass the time with, but I wouldn't spend a credit on it
again.

Too many names to remember

Good read but towards the end there were so many diff characters that I couldn't keep up with who was whom. maybe narrow down the # of characters & plots.

The narrator ugh

Great story if you can tolerate the narrator. The men sound like they’re being squeezed to death while the women sound like a teenager is reading it. Loved the story!

Story ok

I liked most of this story except for the explicit intimate scenes between Spencer and Von. It bordered on smut / romance novel material. Luckily I could fast forward through those sections of this story.

Inflection of narrator

It took me forever to finish this one. Narrator was great until she attempted to do another voice and then everything sounded like a come on. It was her inflection and it was on the end of each sentence. Just had to write this review so I would remember the narrator.

Strange Use of Names

The story was good. But most of the time the 2 main characters were referred to by their last names - even during intimate moments. Then, on occasion, the female lead was referred to by her first name but the male was still called by his last name. Weird.

Ok Story. Very Realistic Ending

2.75

The mystery was fine but the pacing was a bit off at times bc IMO the MCs didn’t have much chemistry. This would have been fine except Zoe makes a 180 degree emotional turn that felt out of the blue & unearned. Additionally bc the story wants to keep you guessing, there’s a bit too many flashes that didn’t add intrigue to the story for me.

The ending bumps the rating up for me bc it speaks to the fact that certain demographics are always valued more and get away with more, while others get thrown away for the slightest offense bc “they’d end up in prison anyway” and are seen as less than human.

Great book

Very good Mary Burton is a awesome author.
She kept a secret all the way till the end

Overall, a good thriller

An FBI profiler/reconstructionist who teams up with a local police detective to solve a decades old case, and a related missing persons case. Good story.

Good, not as good as the usual Mary Burton book

I’m not sure if I’m just too used to Burton’s writing style, or if she was unusually predictable this time, but I guessed the killer early on. It really took me out of the story and made it frustratingly predictable. It was still entertaining, but without a good twist like I’ve come to expect from Burton.

*spoilers* (I’ll try to avoid spoilers by not naming the killer or giving details, but if you read much of the book, you’ll likely know who I’m talking about.)

I spent most of the book waiting in increasing frustration for the protagonists to even consider this person as a killer. Yet even when Burton gave hint after hint and wrote that Zoe had noticed things off in the character’s behavior, the FBI profiler protagonist was unbelievably oblivious to the possibility that this person could be a killer. Just the protagonists discussing this person as a possible suspect and then dismissing them in favor of another character would have made the whole thing a little more believable, but that never happened.