His books are hugely popular in Germany and France, so I’m hoping they will break out here in North America after this release. New Zealander Cleave literally writes ‘edge-of-your-seat’ scenes, in fact it felt like I was watching a movie at some points because the descriptions were so vivid and believable.
There’s quite a few points of view churning around in this book, so there wasn’t a great deal of introspection from each character, but quite frankly, I didn’t really miss that, I was more eager to make my way further into the plot than analyze each character’s motivations. I also groaned out loud at some of the more violent scenes-if I was watching this in a movie, I would have definitely closed my eyes at these parts! The twists are shocking, I didn’t see any of them coming, and I literally gasped out loud at some of them. Once you are able to suspend your disbelief at the coincidences, this story just rockets along at an unbelievable pace. Now, Joshua is experiencing strange dreams where he can see the victims of the aforementioned murderer, but he can also see his Dad’s last few moments as well. Unfortunately, there’s a (somewhat difficult to believe) mix-up at the hospital, so Joshua receives one of his Dad’s eyes, and one of the killer’s eyes. In a seemingly positive turn of events, we learn that the dead cop is a foster dad to a blind boy named Joshua, and his last wish was to give Joshua his eyes so he could gain his sight through a new surgery that makes this possible. One of the dead guys is a cop, and the other is a murderer and psychopath. There’s two murders within the first ten pages of the book, so we don’t get much chance to settle in before the violence starts. Ooooookkkkaaaayyyyy-do you ever read a scary story and think “what happened to that author in his/her life that gave them the inspiration to write such a dark book?” That is exactly what I was thinking when I read A Killer Harvest by Paul Cleave, because this novel scared my socks off!
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