Two people with two different backgrounds. . . Lucy, or number 9, has escaped from the lab that made her. Zoe is trying to escape her past life. Lucy, along with 8 others, was created in a lab, but Lucy is the only one who survived. Her trainer Olivia was the only person Lucy could trust, but she was killed trying to save Lucy. . . Lucy only knows that she needs to get to Texas before the government finds her and tries to put her back in the lab.
Meanwhile, Zoe Johnson is trying to get by without too much trouble. Her mother was in a cult, and eventually, Zoe and her younger brother were placed in foster homes. Zoe made it out of the system, but her brother got mixed up with the wrong crowd and she had to let him go.
Zoe and Lucy meet at the diner where Zoe works. Zoe can tell that Lucy is a little off because she has no idea what a shake is and she seems to have a hard time remembering anything. Zoe takes her back to her apartment to figure out what to do with Lucy, who clearly needs help. There are government agents waiting for them, so they escape through a window and they are now on the run.
They do meet up with the woman that Olivia told Lucy to meet up with, but she really doesn’t help them. Then a government employee named Seeley finds them. Seeley assures them that he will help them getaway. Even though Seely works for the government and Zoe doesn't completely trust him, they follow him anyway to a barn because they have no other choice. They meet a doctor who says she can help Lucy remember her past--what Seely is really after--but this plan is stopped when government agents storm the barn and take Lucy and Zoe into custody. Will Seely hold true to his promise to help them or is he part of the plot to get Lucy back to the lab?
NINE by Rachelle Dekker is a strange, intriguing story. I found this book a little hard to get into--there are a lot of characters and I found them hard to keep them all straight. Rachelle Dekker's imagination is on display with the various storylines in NINE. It's not the type of book I typically read, but I think fans of science fiction will enjoy it.
Zoe Johnson spent most of her life living in the shadows, never drawing attention to herself, never investing in people or places. But when a wide-eyed, bedraggled teenager with no memory walks into the diner where Zoe works, everything changes. Now, against her better judgment, Zoe, who has been trying to outrun her own painful memories of the past, finds herself attempting to help a girl who doesn't seem to have any past at all. The girl knows only one thing: she must reach a woman in Corpus Christi, Texas, hundreds of miles away, before the government agents who are searching for her catch up to them.
Award-winning author Rachelle Dekker throws you into the middle of the action and keeps the pressure on in this page-turning story that, asks Are we who the world says we are--or can we change our story and be something more?
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