Doll's Eyes - Softcover

Wood, Bari

3.57

249 ratings by Goodreads

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ISBN 10: 0380720973 ISBN 13: 9780380720972

Publisher: Avon Books, 1994

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Unable to escape a painful psychic ability that enables her to know things about human pain, fear, and violence, Eve Klein suffers the loss of her loved ones and finds herself the target of a ruthless, glassy-eyed killer. Reprint.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Wood wrote three occult novels in the 80's (Amy Girl, 1987, etc.), but her current publisher is promoting her as the author of Twins (1977)--a telling comment on a sagging career that may lift a bit with this vivid if formulaic mix of occult and serial-killer chills. This time, Wood's usual Lady Luckless is poor little rich girl Eve Klein, whose millions can't buy her relief from her other inheritance: the clairvoyant powers that have recently frightened off her husband, Sam. Hoping to confront him, Eve drives from her Connecticut estate to Sam's new house in Raven Lake, New York, where she's instantly felled by a vision of a woman mutilated and dying--the handiwork of local sociopath Adam Fuller, M.D., whose eyes (``empty...dead...glassy. Like a doll's eyes'') give away his utter inability to feel for others, the product of a buried childhood trauma: Fuller kills in the barren hope of feeling pity for his victims. Eve's call to the cops snares homicide legend Dave Latovsky, who takes her to see psychiatrist Terrence Bunner, who happens to have Fuller as a patient. When, at a party, Bunner lets on to Fuller that Eve--whom he won't identify--saw the killer in her vision, the mad M.D. tracks a gory path to the psychic, torturing and shooting Bunner, then a local newsman and his wife, to get Eve's name and address. Meanwhile, at Bunner's funeral, Latovsky notes Fuller's Ken-doll eyes and fingers him for the killer but can't nab him before Fuller snatches Eve, hauling her to his childhood home. There, Eve flashes on the child abuse that turned Fuller into a maniac.... A lurid, loose-jointed tale whose frantic action and emotionalism nearly obscure the familiarity (Koontz, King, etc.) of Wood's themes. -- Copyright �1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From School Library Journal:

YA-Having clairvoyant powers is more of a curse than a blessing for Eve Tilden Dodd Klein, daughter of rich Connecticut parents and wife of Sam Klein. Her powers have alienated her from her husband, and, hoping for a reconciliation, she makes a trip to his cabin retreat in the Adirondacks. Upon her arrival, Eve has a vision of a murder so grotesque that she immediately calls the police. Her description is so accurate that she is momentarily considered to be a suspect. Charming lieutenant Dave Latovsky teams up with Eve to unravel the link between multiple related murders. Their intervention alerts the killer, who then stalks Eve as his next and final victim, a fact that she has psychically forseen. Doll's Eyes is not a book to be read while home alone or after dark. Wood tells a tale of horror so riveting that readers will be both repulsed and mesmerized. Any "splatter punk" fan will find a new favorite in this author.
Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA
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