The Witness

The Power #2

by Jesse Harris

McKenzie Gold gets entangled in a string of babysitter murders when her special psychic power allows her to see through the eyes of the killer

136 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 25, 1992

Reviews

[Alex (The Bookubus) · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Witness is the second book in The Power series following teenage psychic, McKenzie Gold. In this story she has a vision of a murder, which she believes must be related to a string of babysitter murders in the local area. She goes to the police but not only do they not believe her, they act like she's a suspect! So Mack and her best friend Lilicat must try to figure the case out by themselves.

I really enjoyed this story although unfortunately the ending was a bit of a letdown and then everything wrapped up really quickly. Otherwise, this was a quick and fun read with some great suspense.

[Blake · Rating 3 out of 5]

(FYI I tend to only review one book per series, unless I want to change my scoring by 0.50 or more of a star. -- I tend not to read reviews until after I read a book, so I go in with an open mind.)

I'm finally going through my physical library owned book list, to add more older basic reviews. If I liked a book enough to keep then they are at the least a 3 star.

I'm only adding one book per author and I'm not going to re-read every book to be more accurate, not when I have 1000s of new to me authors to try (I can't say no to free books....)


First time read the author's work?: Yes

Will you be reading more?: Yes

Would you recommend?: Yes


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How I rate Stars: 5* = I loved (must read all I can find by the author)
4* = I really enjoyed (got to read all the series and try other books by the author).
3* = I enjoyed (I will continue to read the series)
or
3* = Good book just not my thing (I realised I don't like the genre or picked up a kids book to review in error.)

All of the above scores means I would recommend them!
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2* = it was okay (I might give the next book in the series a try, to see if that was better IMHO.)
1* = Disliked

Note: adding these basic 'reviews' after finding out that some people see the stars differently than I do - hoping this clarifies how I feel about the book. :-)

[Joshua Gregory · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was very fun and spooky! A girl has a mysterious power where she can see things before they happen or while they’re happening. I found this book to be better than book 1 in this series, the possession. The murders and vision sequences were well spaced out in this book which was great! However it felt like Harris couldn’t be bothered to integrate a proper killer into the book. Like why is the killer just some random we of the street called Joseph.

[Nattie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good. I liked this one better than the first. There were some flaws. I continue to feel like the author's writing style is on par with things I wrote when I was 11, which is not a good thing, and I hate the nickname Lilicat with all my soul.