When a strange person from Valor National Banks shows up at Patsy's house and holds a gun to her in-debt mother's chest, Patsy agrees to their deal: save her life by becoming a bounty hunter assassin for the bank for five days, targeting ten people. When the ten people Patsy must kill are all somehow tied to her, she must repeatedly make the horrible choice of kill or be killed. When it comes to the final two people on the list, her ex-best friend and the brother of the guy she is somehow falling for, Patsy will have to make the toughest decisions of all.
HIT by Delilah S. Dawson is one of the darkest young adult books I've read. No matter how terrifying dystopian or post-apocalyptic novels are, it is the stories that are still in the end of a country or end of the world that make you want to crawl under the covers and hide. HIT's premise is horrifyingly realistic, revolving around the extreme control banks have over nations. This makes the setting of a silent upheaval in the middle of a normal neighborhood with 'rich' and poor areas turn into a nightmare scene that Dawson nails.
Patsy is the kind of protagonist I love: morally ambiguous, strong, big-hearted, and full of faults. Her emotions are realistic and sincere, and I easily found myself lost in her world and circumstances. I also love the insight given to each of the people on Patsy's bounty hunter list. They each represent acquiring large amounts of debt in different ways that are certain to get readers' minds spinning. The perfect dashes of romance also offer a deeper look at humanity and the conditions in which humans can form a connection and find someone they like.
Readers who can stomach serious, psychological questions should grab HIT immediately. Though I wouldn't recommend it to anyone looking for something light, this is hands down one of my favorite books of the year. Delilah S. Dawson creates a world all too familiar with characters ready to show you their heart or shoot your own.
In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become an
indentured assassin in this sizzling dystopian thriller.
No one reads the fine print.
The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The
bad news is that we were bought out by Valor National
Bank,
and debtors are the new big game, thanks to a tricky
little
clause hidden deep in the fine print of a credit card
application. Now, after a swift and silent takeover that
leaves 9-1-1 calls going through to Valor voicemail,
theyβre
unleashing a wave of anarchy across the country.
Patsy didnβt have much of a choice. When the suits showed
up
at her house threatening to kill her mother then and there
for outstanding debt unless Patsy agreed to be an
indentured
assassin, what was she supposed to do? Let her own mother
die?
Patsy is forced to take on a five-day mission to complete
a
hit list of ten names. Each name on Patsyβs list has only
three choices: pay the debt on the spot, agree to work as
a
bounty hunter, or die. And Patsy has to kill them
personally, or else her mom takes a bullet of her own.
Since
yarn bombing is the only anarchy in Patsyβs past, sheβs
horrified and overwhelmed, especially as she realizes that
most of the ten people on her list arenβt strangers.
Things
get even more complicated when a moment of mercy lands her
with a sidekick: a hot rich kid named Wyatt whose brother
is
the last name on Patsyβs list. The two share an intense
chemistry even as every tick of the clock draws them
closer
to an impossible choice.
Delilah S. Dawson offers an absorbing, frightening glimpse
at a reality just steps away from oursβa taut, suspenseful
thriller that absolutely mesmerizes from start to finish.
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