Jessica Bendinger has worked as a screenwriter (Bring it On), producer, director, a journalist for Spin Magazine and MTV News, and a fashion model. She lives in Los Angeles with her dogs, and she is writing her next feature film and working on the sequel to 
The Seven Rays by Jessica Bendinger
Beth Ray is beginning to realize she’s not just your average teenage girl. She’s seeing strange visions, and then there are the letters: shiny gold envelopes containing hints of a great destiny. Her mother tries to keep them from her, but the envelopes manage to find Beth wherever she goes.
And then a big hairy bloke shows up on a flying motorbike and takes her to a wizard school in Scotland… wait, wrong book.
What happens to Beth, instead, is that she undergoes laser eye surgery to try to correct her sight,
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Hahaha! You might like the one "Shocktober" scene near the end!
For some strange reason, I get the feeling I might like this one! 😁
Wow, 20 dollars? That seems a lot for a 100-or-so-page book, but most of my novellas have come via ARCs…
I might say "formulaic" actually.
Your review made me curious, so I looked this book up. Sure enough: Tor. Tor seems to specialize in these…