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Farsighted (2012)

by Emlyn Chand(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Blue Crown Press

series

Farsighted

review 1: I loved the premise of a hero being blind. This is not a disability you can "overlook" when it comes to heroism. So it was with anticipation that I started this read. My two issues with an otherwise great read was when Alex, our blind hero at the age of 16 decide to lift his hand against a woman. This woman being the mother of his friend so to add insult to injury she is an older woman.This could have been used well instead not one grownup says a word over his actions. Instead his father tells him to "Stop this". and that is the end of that. This scene did not go down well with me.The story itself is a very good read. At the end, I felt the story rushed and not logically or well explained as to the how and when of Dax and the final confrontation but this was nothing ... moreother than a distraction.All in all a good read for the YA market.WaAr
review 2: Alex Kosmitoras is blind. When he starts his sophomore year, he ends up in a fight with his personal jock-bully, Brady. Life gets even more difficult for him when he starts having visions, truly strange moments where his other senses pick up scents and sounds that don’t belong in his current real life.Alex finally meets some friends at school who are no less weird than him. Simmi, a girl who smells of an almond bar, is a psychic by touch. Shapri, the daughter of the local mystic — who incidentally has a shop right next door to his mom’s flower shop — doesn’t believe in any of that “psychic mumbo-jumbo.” Unfortunately for her, she can speak to the dead, even though she denies that the people she speaks to are deceased. While Alex tries to live as normal a life as possible, his strange visions cause him to act out in school and be further ostracized by his other classmates.Things get even more difficult when he starts seeing visions of a man, Dax, hurting or potentially killing Simmi. In order to save her in some distant possible future, Alex starts taking psychic lessons with Miss Teak, Shapri’s mother, who owns the psychic shop next door. The three friends embark on a journey to save Simmi’s life from the mysterious Dax.I’ve never read a book with a blind narrator before, and the way Chand goes about it is brilliant. Although I was of the thought that it would be a huge negative to lose my eyesight, because Alex has lived with it his whole life, it doesn’t seem different or noticeable to him, and therefore also does not to the reader. The descriptions of the other senses are just as enticing as descriptions of sight can be, especially when it comes to Alex’s love interest.The interactions between Alex, Simmi, and Shapri feel slightly awkward at some points. This early on in the series, I’m not sure if that’s because they’re awkward teens in high school, haven’t fully come to grips with their powers and what it means to each other, or if the dialogue is just awkward. Fortunately this wasn’t a big issue, because the book had a lot of action, which was written wonderfully. Seeing each character flesh out and start to master their abilities was fun and rewarding. However, some of Alex’s actions actually instilled fear in me for what he might do with his abilities. He ends up beating the hell out of a guy that he thinks deserves it, and it was a startling scene that made me realize he has a long way to go with learning control and responsibility for his power.Although Farsighted felt brief, I believe it serves as a great introduction to the world of psychics that Emlyn Chand created. It has suspense, romance, and a little bit of high school drama. It is also worth noting that this is Chand’s first published novel — and a great breakout book it is. I can’t wait to see where she takes these characters and their powers. The adventure will continue in books two and three of the Farsighted series, Open Heart and Pitch. less

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