THE HIT by Melvin Burgess is a tale of love, danger,
gangsters, revolution, and of course...drugs. The story
begins with Adam and his girlfriend Lizzie at a concert.
Jimmy
Earle a famous musician has been rumored to have taken the
drug Death. Death is not just any drug though, it gives the
highest high for one week, and then the user dies. The death
of Jimmy Earle sparks what looks like the revolution.
Several events collide with the life Adam has planned,
causing him to spiral out of control. Laying on his bed
thinking about how miserable his life is, he does it. He
takes Death. He compiles a list and convinces Lizzie to join
the journey, but what they never expected was to spend
Adam's last week running from gangsters, getting beaten up,
almost dying several times, and finding out the beauty of
life.
THE HIT is one of those stories that I was really unsure of
where it was going, until it was there, a story that
completely caught me by surprise. THE HIT is nothing like
anything I have read before. It is written so differently
than most stories, however it flows in such a perfect
sequence, that it doesn't confuse. You get the joy of
hearing all points of view without being totally wasted on
the nonsense.
THE HIT makes you think about life and love,
about what is important and how we are supposed to go about
life knowing these almost secrets. THE HIT is definitely a
tale
worth seeing through to the end, it makes you think, and I'm
a better person for it.
Live the ultimate high. Pay the ultimate price. The shocking
return to YA by the author of SMACK.
A new drug is on the street. Everyone's buzzing about it.
Take the hit. Live the most intense week of your life. Then
die. It's the ultimate high at the ultimate price. Adam
thinks it over. He's poor, and doesn't see that changing.
Lizzie, his girlfriend, can't make up her mind about
sleeping with him, so he can't get laid.
His brother Jess is
missing. And Manchester is in chaos, controlled by drug
dealers and besieged by a group of homegrown terrorists who
call themselves the Zealots. Wouldn't one amazing week be
better than this endless, penniless misery? After Adam downs
one of the Death pills, he's about to find out.
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