Known for his historical fiction, The Silence in Her Eyes is Correa’s first foray into the contemporary suspense genre.

I was utterly fascinated by Leah’s condition, I’d never heard of akinetopsia, also known as motion blindness. I have to trust that Correa’s portrayal of the experience is accurate, and I imagine it’s a little like when the audio on a video keeps playing even though the image on screen has frozen. Its evident how disorientating and debilitating the condition would be.

It took me too long to recognise Leah as an unreliable narrator, so even though I was expecting a twist, it didn’t play out quite the way I expected. I liked that I was surprised, which doesn’t happen too often, so I feel Correa definitely deserves kudos for that.

The downfall of the novel is its pace, it’s slow even though Correa introduces tension quite early. The rhythm of the narrative also feels choppy, though I think this is intentional to mirror Leah’s vision. I feel both of these things, and instances of repetition, are off putting.

The Silence in Her Eyes is clever with an intriguing protagonist but perhaps not executed as well as it could be. ( )