Name: New Sight
ISBN: 9781939967220

Jo Schneider

After succumbing to the sudden and uncontrollable urge to gouge people's eyes out, sixteen-year-old Lys learns that she has emergent magical powers.

New Sight

Jessica Nottingham

I put off writing a review for New Sight to ruminate on how I actually felt about this book. Honestly? I think the best word to describe my feelings is disappointed. When I read the synopsis I thought I'd be thrown into a story about a manic girl who has an uncontrolled need to rip people's eyes out. That I'd slowly uncover a dark secret, and maybe the "hidden powers" that I was promised. Instead, I was given a magic system that left me confused.
 
The brilliant part about this book is that the hook is intense. The first page caught my attention, and it was all I could do to keep from skipping to the bottom to find out what happened next. I felt the tension, and the anger, and the despair. Color me surprised when a few chapters later it felt like a much different book. It became a monotony of being attacked-fight, rest, being attacked-fight, rest. 
 
Sadly, not even the characters had the power to captivate me. Lys and her ragtag group of magic users were lacking in the depth department. There was so much action, so much focus on them constantly being faced with foes, that there wasn't any time to get to know them better. They felt two-dimensional, and it was like I was watching from afar rather than being right there with them. I wasn't invested in their fight. Or in their stories.