LitPick Review
If you're looking for a book with fairies prancing through meadows, or high school basketball players shooting hoops till 8:00 at night, The Third Eye is definitely NOT the book for you. Zarku, a mysterious new healer comes to the village of Morni, a Hindu village in India. Tara, and her brother, Suraj, live with their dreadful stepmother, Kali, her wicked daughter, Layla, and their father, Shiv. After Tara and Suraj have enough of their step- family's odd wickedness, they escape into a supposed haunted forest where men of Morni, return in a deformed manner, known as the Vetalas. The Vetalas are a translucent green, with a huge wound on their forehead, and a strange black liquid which oozes its way out. Their feet are turned backward from the ankle, and their chests are 100% transparent -- you can see a black heart pumping the black liquid throughout the whole body. Suraj struggles to survive as a fever takes over. Tara struggles to find her mother, Parvati, and Prabala, her grandfather, in time to save their village from the evil Zarku, and free the captives in this thrilling story.
Opinion:
The Third Eye, by Mahtab Narsimhan was a definite page turner. The Third Eye described Hindu mythology and its gods, including: the God of the Sun, the Underworld, the Lord of the Dead, and the Heavens. This was a particularly easy read, but some sections of the story were a bit confusing. The Third Eye's genre would be classified as mystery/thriller/adventure. Narsimhan included wit when it was necessary, but most of the novel was serious. This book wasn't very predictable, and took some subtle and some obvious twists and turns. The Third Eye isn't the type of genre I would typically read, but I found it very well written.
