Seven years before the story begins, the entire world was hit with a fast moving virus (“The Blinding”), resulting in complete blindness for the entire population. Millions of people died that first year due to panic and the resulting drug overdoses, suicides, rioting, and fires. The following year, Eye Tech, now the most powerful corporation in the world, introduced a cranial implant called a vidder which downloads visual information directly into the brain on what the eyes should be seeing. Blind Spots is the story of what happens when someone learns to hack the technology and can change what the wearer sees.
Homicide detective Mark Owens has
been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered and
the only witness insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens
doesn’t believe her―until he experiences the phenomena himself. No one believes
him either until they witness the same thing right before they die. Suspects
range from the tech billionaire who designed the vidder to anti-modernity
cultists. Owens must investigate them all knowing he can’t trust his own eyes. Parallel
to the murder plotline is the internal affairs investigation into the suicide
of Owens’s wife Jeanie.
The reader can’t help but draw
parallels to today’s world- the COVID pandemic, those that get vaccine and
those that won’t or can’t afford it, search engine type results, complete with
pop-ups, fake news, and corporations that hold the real power. I found Blind Spots a fascinating read.
3.89 stars on Goodreads, 4.1 on
Amazon
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