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In Minneapolis Eve Wilson survived the violent assault that left her face paralyzed, external scars removed by plastic surgery, and emotional wounds not healed (see DON'T TELL). She hides in the web world making friends there while working on her graduate school thesis re virtual communities can help people emotionally heal. Eve has constructed a website Shadowland to help people like her. However, some of her friends and customers in the Shadowland community commit suicide to her shock and regret.

Homicide detective Noah Webster believes a serial killer has murdered at least two people making it look like they committed suicides at work. Noah's investigation leads to Eve and her website. He soon realizes the psychopath knows the victims extremely well, which the cop thinks means Eve is on the hit list of a diabolically clever killer.

Karen Rose is gaining a well deserved reputation for great romantic suspense thrillers; her latest winner I CAN SEE YOU is a super Minneapolis police procedural that also showcases the double edged sword of on line communities. Whereas the web enables the disenfranchised to communicate with others; on the other hand the others can include sociopaths or worse. With a strong cast especially the heroine, Ms. Rose writes a terrific whodunit that provides a double edge spin to the Internet applauding the connection of the lonely one to the many but also warning these ones that predators in sheep clothing could be one of the many. This is a great poignant work.

Harriet Klausner


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I Can See You Karen Rose 9780446538343 Books Reviews

Eve Wilson is no stranger to violence, having survived not one but two brutal attacks. Heinously scarred , she hid herself from others, immersing herself into role-playing computer games, where she could have any physical feature of her desire. With the support and urging of her friends, she moves from Chicago to Minneapolis and begins to take her life back, refusing to be a victim any longer.
Surgery has repaired her most visible scars, but under the surface, she still has a wounded soul. Eve dedicates herself to helping others, beginning with a study of the habits and personalities of online gamers. When hard-core participants start disappearing, she is the first to notice the link and bring it to the attention of the police, jeopardizing her career and her life.

Homicide detective Noah Webster is a recovering alcoholic. He's been silently watching Eve, secretly interested, but unable to approach her because of his own doubts and insecurities. Now he is trying to uncover the key to connect his latest cases, all look to be suicides, but looks can be deceiving. When Eve comes to him about his latest case, they are thrown together in a twisted plot to catch a serial killer.

How can they guess the next victim when the murderer seems to be one step ahead of them? Will they catch the killer before one of them fall victim? Can they heal each others' past pains and create a future with each other?

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When I finished this book, and my husband asked me if it was any good, my answer to him was "Yeah, it was freakin' awesome!" Not the most eloquent of statements, I know, but it pretty much summed up my feelings for I CAN SEE YOU. Eve's story was everything I thought it could be PLUS.

Karen Rose did a phenomenal job creating a fascinating cast of characters. Some of them were old friends that I had met in past books, some are new friends I look forward to meeting again in future books. She holds her readers attention with her chilling plots which are easy to visualize, then she turns the suspense to tenderness, always bringing strong emotions to the surface, that tug on the heart-strings and make you want to be part of the family and friendships that emerge from the pages.
I CAN SEE YOU is a fast-paced thriller. Noah and Eve are believable, imperfect characters, that don't so much as overcome their flaws and tragedies as they learn to accept themselves and each other for who they are. I've been following Eve since she was first introduced in DON'T TELL, and was eager to see how she would be able to conquer her tragic past. I was not disappointed. I felt Noah was the perfect match for her.

Though there are other stories that connect with I CAN SEE YOU, you don't need to read them to love this. But after you read it, you will be looking for her entire back list. In the year since I've discovered Karen Rose, she's quickly become and auto-buy for me as I've scrounged up all of her books except HAVE YOU SEEN HER, which I'm currently on hunt for!!!! I CAN SEE YOU is her best one to date, I fervently await David's book, SILENT SCREAM, which doesn't come out until June 2010!

Reviewed for Night Owl Romance
Book Club Review
I CAN SEE YOU
Karen Rose

Our book club's book for April was I CAN SEE YOU, by Karen Rose. As a group, we'd not had much experience with Rose, who is apparently pretty well known. She certainly seems connected - there are blurbs on the back of the book from James Patterson, Tess Gerritsen, Lorenzo Carcaterra, and other luminaries.

Based on the title, you would expect a book about a stalker, and that's what you get. The plot can be summed up pretty easily A serial killer is stalking and killing women in Minneapolis. A new body falls every 40 pages or so. This being a serial killer, of course he leaves a calling card based on his own personal fetish he dresses the women up, leaves a pair of shoes near them, and then hangs them on a noose to make it appear a suicide. He also likes to leave windows open.

The intriguing parts of the book (which, sadly, aren't many) involve the killer's finding his victims through an online virtual reality game called ShadowLand (much like Second Life). A local grad student, Eve, is using ShadowLand to discover if introverts can develop their social skills in ShadowLand and then apply them to real life. But she breaks the double-blind nature of the experiment and learns the identities of the test subjects - so she realizes that a murderer is on the loose when she starts reading about their deaths. Of course, that makes her a target. Luckily, she works in a bar frequented by local cops, including one - named Noah Webster - for whom she has the hots, and who has the hots for her. She has a tragic past (someone tried to kill her), he has a tragic past (dead wife and child, killed in a car accident), so much of the book is spent with the two of them playing approach-and-retreat.

I realize that this review is sounding quite cynical, but there's a reason for it. As a group, we gave this one a resounding thumbs down. So formulaic, right down to the killer's identity - which every single person in our reading group of 11 figured out. And Lord, does this book go on and on and on. It's about 500 pages and could have been half that length. For some reason, the killer has targeted six women - he keeps talking about his goal of six. We're never told why he chose that number, so we speculated that the publisher said "OK, Miss Rose, you have 500 pages - figure out how many people you can kill off in that number of pages." But the killer murders a lot more than six, because he must of course eliminate anyone who is coming close to figuring out his identity; plus the world needs to be ridded of prostitutes, who are "bonus kills" beyond the targeted six.

So, the plot is downright boring, but it's the burgeoning romance between Eve and Noah that had most of us climbing the walls. While the reader feels sorry for both of them due to their tragic pasts, they spend so much time dancing around each other, having the same conversation over and over and over, that we felt trapped in Groundhog Day. I can't speak for everyone else, but by the time they got to the sex scene, I skipped the chapter.

At the end of the day, we just couldn't find many good things to say about this book. Writing is competent; plotting is weak, and so are characters. As a club, our tastes are varied, and it's rare that we all give a book a thumbs up or a thumbs down, and we do sort of pride ourselves on being open-minded readers. But the decision on this one was unanimous not a good book. Pass this one by.
In Minneapolis Eve Wilson survived the violent assault that left her face paralyzed, external scars removed by plastic surgery, and emotional wounds not healed (see DON'T TELL). She hides in the web world making friends there while working on her graduate school thesis re virtual communities can help people emotionally heal. Eve has constructed a website Shadowland to help people like her. However, some of her friends and customers in the Shadowland community commit suicide to her shock and regret.

Homicide detective Noah Webster believes a serial killer has murdered at least two people making it look like they committed suicides at work. Noah's investigation leads to Eve and her website. He soon realizes the psychopath knows the victims extremely well, which the cop thinks means Eve is on the hit list of a diabolically clever killer.

Karen Rose is gaining a well deserved reputation for great romantic suspense thrillers; her latest winner I CAN SEE YOU is a super Minneapolis police procedural that also showcases the double edged sword of on line communities. Whereas the web enables the disenfranchised to communicate with others; on the other hand the others can include sociopaths or worse. With a strong cast especially the heroine, Ms. Rose writes a terrific whodunit that provides a double edge spin to the Internet applauding the connection of the lonely one to the many but also warning these ones that predators in sheep clothing could be one of the many. This is a great poignant work.

Harriet Klausner