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SIGHTED: The Gift
I'm Lindsay, and I'm a teenage visionary with a few big problems. My mother is way overprotective. My best friend is an airhead. My boyfriend joined the Army.
And I can see murders before they happen.
At the age of eight, I realized that I'm a visionary - that I'm "sighted," as my mom calls it. She tells me I need to learn how to manage my ability. She insists that it's a gift.
That's so not true. I think she's just trying to make me feel better about it. I mean, I already have enough to contend with. Like surviving the continuing drama that is my best friend Sara, and finding the time to be with my boyfriend Scott, all while trying to get myself graduated from my small-town high school so I can go to college and have even more to contend with.
My visions of grisly deaths - past, present, and future - kind of complicate things, especially since I'm still learning how to handle them. Every now and then, I see them wrong.
So while Mom calls it my "gift," I disagree. If this is a gift, then I'd like to give it back.
And I can see murders before they happen.
At the age of eight, I realized that I'm a visionary - that I'm "sighted," as my mom calls it. She tells me I need to learn how to manage my ability. She insists that it's a gift.
That's so not true. I think she's just trying to make me feel better about it. I mean, I already have enough to contend with. Like surviving the continuing drama that is my best friend Sara, and finding the time to be with my boyfriend Scott, all while trying to get myself graduated from my small-town high school so I can go to college and have even more to contend with.
My visions of grisly deaths - past, present, and future - kind of complicate things, especially since I'm still learning how to handle them. Every now and then, I see them wrong.
So while Mom calls it my "gift," I disagree. If this is a gift, then I'd like to give it back.
128 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 20, 2018
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May 24, 2020
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Not great. Halfway through, the narrator/MC says something along the lines of “I know this sounds trite.” And I thought I was being punk’d! The entirety of this book is annoyingly trite. And just....not great. The romance is lame. The suspense is boring. And the MC’s ability has been done before—nothing new or exciting there...
And can I just say how irritating and presumptuous it is for authors/publishers/whoever makes these decisions to split a normal-sized book into three or more smaller books in order to make more money? I’m tellin’ ya right now—I’m not giving you my money...unless it’s REALLY good (and this book just didn’t do it for me).
Not great. Halfway through, the narrator/MC says something along the lines of “I know this sounds trite.” And I thought I was being punk’d! The entirety of this book is annoyingly trite. And just....not great. The romance is lame. The suspense is boring. And the MC’s ability has been done before—nothing new or exciting there...
And can I just say how irritating and presumptuous it is for authors/publishers/whoever makes these decisions to split a normal-sized book into three or more smaller books in order to make more money? I’m tellin’ ya right now—I’m not giving you my money...unless it’s REALLY good (and this book just didn’t do it for me).
December 20, 2019
Wonderful. A great read.
April 28, 2019
Lindsay is a teenage visionary with typical teenage problems: An overprotective mother, a best friend who's kind of an airhead, and a boyfriend who joined the Army. And oh, by the way - she can see murders both well before and long after they're committed.
The main characters, Lindsay and Sara, are best friends who are more like sisters. The book begins with their first meeting, then moves quickly through their childhoods, high school, and the angst of teenage first love. That's when the story takes a sudden turn into paranormal suspense, as Lindsay's visions get more vivid and terrifying. But Lindsay is young, naive, and still learning how to manage her "gift." She misunderstands her visions, which leads to a final scene that caught me totally off guard.
Sighted: The Gift is Book One of a series (the author's website says Book Two is coming out any day now).
The main characters, Lindsay and Sara, are best friends who are more like sisters. The book begins with their first meeting, then moves quickly through their childhoods, high school, and the angst of teenage first love. That's when the story takes a sudden turn into paranormal suspense, as Lindsay's visions get more vivid and terrifying. But Lindsay is young, naive, and still learning how to manage her "gift." She misunderstands her visions, which leads to a final scene that caught me totally off guard.
Sighted: The Gift is Book One of a series (the author's website says Book Two is coming out any day now).
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