Book review: Visibility by Boris Starling
Feb. 28th, 2012 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellReasons I really liked this book:
1. It's a police procedural which turns into a spy thriller.
2. The love interest is a non-magical blind woman.
3. I can say I was reading this instead of watching the Oscars.
4. The non-magical blind woman uses a cane and is still fiery, intelligent, sexy, and has a sense of humor. . She also is not shy about telling the male protagonist when she doesn't need his help.
5. It's set in London during the Great Fog of 1952.
6. The intelligent and sexy non-magical blind woman has sex with the protagonist and doesn't die.
7. Rosalind Franklin shows up.
8. The visibility metaphor is used to very good effect without ever becoming a cliche about the relationship of vision versus blindness (ever notice how many books with words such as "blind" or "eyes" or "vision" int he title are extended cliches about blindness?).
1. It's a police procedural which turns into a spy thriller.
2. The love interest is a non-magical blind woman.
3. I can say I was reading this instead of watching the Oscars.
4. The non-magical blind woman uses a cane and is still fiery, intelligent, sexy, and has a sense of humor. . She also is not shy about telling the male protagonist when she doesn't need his help.
5. It's set in London during the Great Fog of 1952.
6. The intelligent and sexy non-magical blind woman has sex with the protagonist and doesn't die.
7. Rosalind Franklin shows up.
8. The visibility metaphor is used to very good effect without ever becoming a cliche about the relationship of vision versus blindness (ever notice how many books with words such as "blind" or "eyes" or "vision" int he title are extended cliches about blindness?).
