What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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From the Corner of His Eye
SOLVED: Adult Fiction
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SOLVED. Adult Thriller. Kid gets his eyes surgically removed but he still can see. [s]
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No way is it YA, but "From The Corner Of His Eye" by Dean Koontz matches in many respects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_th...
Sue wrote: "No way is it YA, but "From The Corner Of His Eye" by Dean Koontz matches in many respects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_th......"Thank you so much! I didn't really know what to put as genre haha sorry about that.
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Kris wrote: "This doesn't sound like a children's book."Changed the title to "suspense".
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[Spoiler ahead... and TW: short mention of r*pe]
It's about a little boy who was born gifted. He knew how to walk, read and talk way earlier than normal. When he is around 3 years old he gets some kind of eye illness, and gets his eyes surgically removed. He gets artificial cristal eyes.
A few years later he can suddenly see.
At some point he befriends a girl, I think they are neighbours. And they both can see and hear other alternative universes.
Within the first few chapters there's one adult male character (the antagonist) who is a doctor, maybe a gynecologist, and he rapes one of his female patients. He goes on a hiking trip with his wife (newly weds) and he pushes her over a railing from top of a lighthouse, maybe? When he sees that she is dead he starts vomiting.
There's an investigation and again is mentioned that he vomits whenever he thinks about the murder. The detective (¿?) has this habit of fidgeting a coin between his fingers, this coin can disappear and later it's discovered that the detective can send things to alternative universes.
The antagonist knows somehow that there's a kid who will be his doom, and so he starts searching for him (the "blind" kid, main character of the book).