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,
they’re
unleashing a wave of anarchy across the country.
Patsy didn’t 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 Patsy’s 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 Patsy’s past, she’s
horrified and overwhelmed, especially as she realizes that
most of the ten people on her list aren’t 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 Patsy’s 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 ours—a taut, suspenseful
thriller that absolutely mesmerizes from start to finish.
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