Murder

The Boy Who Saw was much better than the first Solomon Creed novel The Searcher. Here, Creed is in France looking for whoever made the suit jacket and vest he wears (Creed, who has spectacular senses, intelligence, and fighting skills doesn't really know who he is or why this is so).

In France, someone is looking for and killing "The Others," four Jews who survived a concentration camp during the Holocaust. One who does get killed has a granddaughter who's researching who The Others are. She also has a 7 year-old son who can detect a person's "color" based on their level of danger. These two characters, the mother and son, are written very well.

I enjoyed getting to know Creed's backstory and the chase around France.

The book would have earned a half-star more had the author not included politics in his afterward. Just because someone is proud of their country doesn't make them a Nazi; this was just another example of folks towing the Leftist line and it disappointed me greatly as we simply cannot escape politics anymore.

Still, I'd recommend The Boy Who Saw and even suggest that reading the first Creed novel is not at all necessary. (Ironically, I'd started this one first before realizing it was a part of a series; I put it down, read The Searcher, then picked this one up again. I needn't have.) I will continue reading the series, hoping Toyne can keep his politics to himself. ( )

Like the brave (or foolish) soul I am did I jump straight to this book without having read the first book about Solomon Creed. I mean I do it all the time and this one was not a bit hard to get into, despite it being book two. Who is Solomon Creed? That's a good question, he doesn't know himself so he could be a dangerous psychiatric patient that has escaped from a high-security facility in America (looked up because of a violent deed in the past) or he could just be a man suffering from amnesia. Or he could be something entirely different ... who knows...

I have to admit did the book did not, storywise, grab me before the very end when the truth about the murders was revealed and some shocking twist happened. Not that the book bored me, it's a tragic story, and the chapters from a diary of a concentration camp survivor were hauntingly moving and tragic. And I was curious to learn more about Solomon Creed. I would say that this book is perfectly all right, I would definitely read more books in the series. However, for some reason, the story just didn't totally captivate me until the end. I'm however curious to read the first book, both to know more about Solomon and to see if it was the writing style that just didn't agree with me.

I want to thank Harper Collins for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! ( )

I have complicated feelings on the second Solomon Creed novel. My rating might even change in the next couple of days. I'll hopefully have time to expand my feelings further in writing, but I can safely say I eagerly await the third (concluding?) book in the series, despite any issues I may have with THE BOY WHO SAW. ( )

A young boy can see people's colors - their auras. His grandfather, who survived the Nazi camps) is horribly killed . A stranger "Solomon Creed" shows up at the same time. Is he the killer? Who killed her grandfather. Everyone is on the run to find the last person on a secret list that has been kept hidden since the war. Twists and turns and good ending. ( )