A Note About Point of View

I'm reading an unusual book that I discovered via my Book Lover's calendar. (And, by the way, if you are ever looking for a gift suggestion for a bibliophile, the Book Lover's calendar is a terrific idea!) But while this particular book started out very promising, I was soon disappointed.

That's because, although the book was written from a first-person point of view (that would be when the protagonist uses 'I' and 'me'), the main character can see into the thoughts of everyone else.  She has the knowledge of an omniscient narrator, yet she should not be able to see into anyone's thoughts but her own.

All of this ESP-style knowledge would be fine if the main character's name was Sookie Stackhouse, the mind-reading vampire dating waitress of the Charlaine Harris novels, but this is a work of realistic fiction, and there is no mention of how the main character knows what she knows.

Why the author was allowed to get away with the POV shift puzzles me since I would have thought an editor (or even an agent) would have spotted the problem straight away.

The other mystery regarding this book is whether or not I'll bother to finish it or simply move on to something else.