Truesight

I am an adult who sometimes reads young adult science fiction(example: I really like the Haddix "Shadow Chldren" series).These books can be very well written and interesting.The premise of this book was original, and I enjoyed it up to a point, however several things interfered.I am a sighted person. So I would like to hear in this review page, the reactions of people who are blind, who read this book.Does the author have any experience with/did he talk with any blind people before writing this book?The book made it sound as if the people of "Harmony" needed a lot of help to do many things: including advanced technology.I think they could have easily evolved over time their own ways of doing things that did NOT depend at all on outsiders from Earth: they would have been highly motivated to do this since they distrusted/disliked outsiders so much.I agree with other readers that it was unrealistic for the main character to suddenly be able to understand facial expressions,or even to understand colors (the author mentions "gray" in one early passage) or even what color was. I think it might have been more like in the film "At First Sight": where he had to LEARN how to interpret what he was seeing.That being said, I found the idea of the book very original:the characters were all well drawn and complex: and I cared about them. I wanted to read more once I finished it: I wanted to find out more about what happened to the people of "Harmony" and to Jacob.

I did like the book a lot in the beginning. I couldn’t stop reading it. Around 100 pages I lost all interest in the book. In the end the book got my attention back, but not as strong as I was hooked in the beginning.

The first few chapters are boring but as you get further into the book it gets intense and fun to read. I recommend this to those who like mystery

Truesight is the first of an awesome trilogy! (See "The Seer" and "Otherspace" for the rest of the trilogy.) The author helps you see things in a new way with this world of people who have no vision. I know I'll always like the books better, but I still want to see this as a Hollywood movie! It's as creative as Avatar, and way more creative than most of the movies they are putting out these days.

Well written and enjoyable. My 12 year old and I read this book and discussed the plot and characters. What fun!!!

I love the basis of the story, however I did have a bit of trouble staying with the story because it seemed to ramble on a bit. To be completely honest I do have to say it was very well written.

GREAT BOOK. I kept being shocked. It really left me thinking. Ready to read the next one!

I like this I gave it 5 star rating Books a million and Amazon Barnes and noble and much more should carry this.