Through Violet Eyes

On November 13, 2004 I wrote this in my book journal:

Ok, she's back to sleep. After "Murder List" I read "Through Violet Eyes" by Stephen Woodworth. Jim picked up this book at the grocery store and it was actually pretty good. There are these people called violets and they can communicate with the dead. Actually, they summon someone who is dead by using a touchstone, something the dead person has touched and they inhabit the body of the violet.

There is some sort of violet governing agency called the Corps who schools all violates and places them in jobs, usually in government where they can summons someone who has been murdered and tell a court who their killer was. A violet has a very hard life because they are always summoning people who have died brutal tragic deaths and reliving the even through the mind and thoughts of that person. Very stressful.

In this book, a certain violen is killing other violets. His name is Evan and he is doing it to save them from this horrible life of never being happy or living a normal life. They are all bald and have violet irises so they are ostricized by the public as being freaks.

Again, there is a detective who is assigned to protect a certain violet because the Corps is sure she is next on the list. This book doesn't have the happily ever after ending though. They do fall in love, she gets pregnant and he gets shot in the head. The violet is able to summns him, though, with the ultimate touchstone, their child. Not a bad book but not a great one either. I really need to get away from the murder/victim/detective books. Maybe my next one will be a little more lighthearted. I sure hope so. Sorry it took so long to catch up.