Customer Reviews

Face Blind

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
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This was a really suspensful novel! I enjoyed it a lot!

Problem:
Quoting Arlington reader: "Are you the freakin author? I find all of these reviews SUSPECT.".

NO! Raymond Benson lives in Chicago. And besides, you didn't review the book!

I just read "Face Blind" and came to leave my own 5-star review, and then saw the ridiculous review from "the reader from Illinois"--which doesn't review the book at all but rather gives a 2-star review to the "reviewer from New York." Sheesh, get a life. Did you like the book or not? I guess you really didn't read it. Anyway, I thought Benson's new book was very suspenseful. It had me up all night! I recommend it to anyone who like suspense books with strange, twisted characters.

You have reviewed EVERY Raymond Benson book out there, and given all of them 5 stars. You have written similar reviews, in PR style with lots of "quotables", for each and every book. Are you the freakin author? I find all of these reviews SUSPECT.

Benson weaves three storylines ulimately into one story. A lonely women who is unable to recognize people's faces, a struggling actor and an author caught up in a drug ring. Benson keeps you reading to the last sentence. This book maintains your interest throughout and in the end you are wanting more.

Raymond Benson has shown that he can create suspense away from his James Bond novels. "Face Blind" kept me glued to the page. The plot deals with a woman who has "prosopagnosia," or "face blindness"--this means she can't recognize faces except within the context of location or by voice. This of course leads to a lot of mistaken identity twists. What's brilliant about the story is that Benson turns this concept around and shows how other characters in the story are also "face blind" in their own way. The bad guys mistake *her* for someone they're looking for. Another creepy guy in the story preys on victim by means of medical transcription tapes, something that makes you stop and think about who's really doing that kind of work for your doctors! "Face Blind" has surprises at every turn and it would also make a great movie.