Million Eyes – A Review

Million Eyes

How do you fight an enemy who has a million eyes?

What if we’re living in an alternate timeline? What if the car crash that killed Princess Diana, the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower, and the shooting of King William II weren’t supposed to happen?

Ex-history teacher Gregory Ferro finds evidence that a cabal of time travellers is responsible for several key events in our history. These events all seem to hinge on a dry textbook published in 1995, referenced in a history book written in 1977 and mentioned in a letter to Edward III in 1348.

Ferro teams up with down-on-her-luck graduate Jennifer Larson to get to the truth and discover the relevance of a book that seems to defy the arrow of time. But the time travellers are watching closely. Soon the duo are targeted by assassins willing to rewrite history to bury them.

Million Eyes is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller about power, corruption and destiny.

Review

An intriguing combination of history and science fiction, ‘Million Eyes’ certainly had me engrossed early on. I’d describe the action as fast-moving thriller style, with chapters cutting seamlessly between times and characters. This might have been confusing, but C R Berry achieves a good balance, with just the right content within each chapter. It was easy to connect with the main characters, who each had a distinct role to play in the narrative. 

The only element which didn’t resonate with me was the section on Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died over twenty years ago, her death remains in the public eye. There are many people alive today who will remember where they were and how they felt when news of her death broke, I include myself in this number. It is probably the first wall-to-wall coverage news item which I do remember. The inquest into her death reported its conclusions just over 10 years ago, and conspiracy theories continue into the accident which led to her death. It didn’t sit quite right having it included in this book. Particularly the part which imagines dialogue between Diana and one of the book’s characters. The rest of the historical story telling takes place much longer ago, and is a much better fit for the book.

So I recommend the book for a well written conspiracy thriller, which fuses science fiction with history. If, however, the death of Diana evokes an emotional trigger, I suggest reading with caution.  

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Author Bio 

C.R. Berry caught the writing bug at the tender age of four and has never recovered. His earliest stories were filled with witches, monsters, evil headteachers, Disney characters and the occasional Dalek. He realised pretty quickly that his favourite characters were usually the villains. He wonders if that’s what led him to become a criminal lawyer. It’s certainly why he’s taken to writing conspiracy thrillers, where the baddies are numerous and everywhere.

After a few years getting a more rounded view of human nature’s darker side, he quit lawyering and turned to writing full-time. Berry now works as a freelance copywriter and novelist and blogs about conspiracy theories, time travel and otherworldly weirdness.

He was shortlisted in the 2018 Grindstone Literary International Novel Competition and has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Storgy, Dark Tales, Theme of Absence and Suspense Magazine. He was also shortlisted in the Aeon Award Contest, highly commended by Writers’ Forum, and won second prize in the inaugural To Hull and Back Humorous Short Story Competition.

Berry grew up in Farnborough, Hampshire, and has since moved to Haslemere in Surrey.

C. R. Berry

Social Media Links

Websites: C. R. Berry (Author), Million Eyes, Gregory Ferro Blog

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CRBerry1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CRBerry1/

Many thanks to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for hosting this blog tour, and offering me the chance to review Million Eyes. I received a copy of the book, in return for an honest review. All views expressed are my own.

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Disclosure notice: I was gifted a copy of this book in return for a review. All views expressed are my own. Thank you to Rachel, of Rachel’s Random Resources, for organising the tour, and offering me a place.