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    Hit

    Written by Delilah S. Dawson

    Narrated by Rebekkah Ross

    3.5/5

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    In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become an indentured assassin in this sizzling “movie ready” (Kirkus Reviews) 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 it was 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.

    An absorbing, frightening glimpse at a reality that is eerily just steps away from ours—Hit is a taut, suspenseful thriller that absolutely mesmerizes from start to finish.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 14, 2015
    ISBN9781442385153
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    Delilah S. Dawson

    Delilah S. Dawson is the author of Hit, Servants of the Storm, Strike, the Blud series, Star Wars novels and short stories, a variety of short stories, comics, and essays, and the Shadow series as Lila Bowen. She lives in Georgia with her family and a fat mutt named Merle. Find her online at WhimsyDark.com.

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    • 4/5
      I have had this book to read for awhile now. Previous to this I read Dawson’s Blud series (which I liked) and her other YA book, Servants of the Storm (which I loved). This book is really unlike any of her previous stories; it is more of an action thriller and doesn’t have any supernatural or fantasy elements to it. The 2nd book is called Stike and is already out; I believe this is planned to be a trilogy.The premise of this book is a bit hard to swallow. Basically a bank buys out the government and makes everyone’s loans due immediately. You get two options: pay off the loan or become an assassin for the credit company and hunt down other loan owners. While unrealistic and a hard to find believable, it ends up being kind of an interesting idea. I love how this change in order quickly tumbles society into chaos.Despite the fact that I found the premise to be fairly unbelievable, this ended up being a fast-paced and engaging read. Each chapter is named after the person Patsy has to hunt down next and you can’t help but be pulled into each person’s story as you wonder what they owe money for and if they will chose to live or die.Of course there is a larger story that ties the whole book together as Patsy tries to figure out who and what is behind Valor National Bank. This larger story combined with the smaller stories of the people Patsy hunts and made this a book that was impossible for me to put down.I also love how this book explored how different people react to this incredibly improbable situation; it’s very intriguing from a psychological point of view and I was surprised at how much this book made me consider our society as a whole.Overall I enjoyed it and will probably read the next book in the series just because I am incredibly curious to see what happens. I would recommend to those who enjoy action-packed thrillers that have a bit of a dystopian twist to them.
    • 3/5
      Characters were shallow and stereotypical. Nothing new or inventive at all. No likable people and wooden emotion. Not what I was expecting from reading some of the reviews. Some glaring editing issues as well. Not reading the sequel.
    • 2/5
      I received this free eARC from Edelweiss in exchange for my honest review. The concept of this book intrigued me. And it sounded like it could either be a hit or a miss. Sadly it was more of a miss. Patsy, while badass and doing what she needs to do to save her mother, is a bit annoying to me. I dunno. I can't imagine being in her shoes and having to kill 10 people (who are not so random it turns out), so I shouldn't judge how annoying she is because, hello? Killing people? That can change a person. The whole love interest in the novel we could have done without. I never got the feeling that they were attracted to each other before they hooked up, and they never really seemed to connect during the novel. More it was about Patsy not killing Wyatt's older brother. I did like the ending. It was a creative way to conclude the novel but I would have liked to know what Valor was going to do when Patsy killed her 10 victims. If I happen to see the next book when it comes out I might read it, but I'm not going out of my way to buy it on the release day. I think readers will either really like this book or really hate this book. I'm in between, but I'm glad I got this as an eARC to read and review it.
    • 2/5
      For more reviews, gifs, Cover Snark and more, visit A Reader of Fictions.Before I get into this, I want to be totally clear about the fact that it wasn’t Hit‘s blurb that made me curious; it was Delilah S. Dawson. I follow her on Twitter and love reading her blog posts. She’s incredible funny, laugh until tears are leaking from my eyes and can’t breathe funny. With how much I love all of the things I’ve read by her online, I figured that Hit couldn’t possibly miss, but, once again, I’ve been proven wrong.The concept of Hit is a fun and compelling one. Dawson draws on some of the most troublesome aspects of American society: credit card debt, the economy, and the omnipresent terms and conditions no one ever reads. The premise is that Valor National, a bank, becomes influential and wealthy enough to pay off the national debt and become the government. Valor National then takes advantage of some scary agreements they hid in the terms and conditions of their credit card contracts: if the card owners default on their payments, Valor National can call the debt in, requiring the card holder to either pay the debt in full, become a bounty hunter for them for a few days, or die. Teen Patsy has to present ten people with these options, killing them if they don’t pay up or volunteer to do what she’s doing, or both she and her mom will be killed. The whole thing is absurd but also ridiculously possible; the concept ought to be the foundation for a delicious satire.Unfortunately, I didn’t get satiric vibes from Hit. Everything’s told in a very realistic, gritty way. It’s more action/thriller/conspiracy/romance than commentary on the American way of life. There are elements of social commentary, of course, but I feel like that message gets muddied along the way. A satire should have a dark comedy underlying it that I really did not find here. There are some attempts at comedy, but they fell almost entirely flat for me, perhaps because so much of it consisted of odd southernisms. In fact, though most of her writing was descriptive and no-nonsense, but sometimes the metaphors and phrases didn’t make any sense to me.It’s like when they say a goose walked over your grave, but this was one big effing goose.Is this a thing? Hit is set in Georgia, which is where I live, and I’ve never heard this. Admittedly, I’m in Atlanta, which isn’t much like the rest of Georgia, but, based on my googling, it doesn’t seem like the most common phrase.Somewhere, deep behind my ribs, in a place I didn’t know existed, my heart opens up like one of those blooming tea bags, the ones that start out tiny and dark and then blossom like a flower.Her heart is a tea bag? Before she gets rid of her mom’s credit card debt by killing ten of Valor National’s creditors, maybe she should consult a physician, because that’s not healthy.“That thing’s tech is tighter than a turtle’s butt.”Ew. Also, I have no idea how tight turtle butts are, so this means nothing to me. Nor do I want to know. Nope nope nopeity nope.“Shit on a biscuit.”You’re already swearing, Patsy. No need to try to make it cutesy, bless your heart.Hit‘s incredibly long chapters, one per debtor, also slowed me down. Some were fifty plus pages long, and it’s really hard for me to sustain my mental interest for that long a duration. I do think that Dawson does a great job with the realism aspects. Patsy’s not model beautiful; she has zits and awkward clothing. There’s a fantastic awkward boner scene at the most inopportune of moments. When Patsy has to kill people, it’s not pretty; it’s bloody and gross, mentioning bodily fluids leaking from the corpse.The romance proved quite frustrating. Patsy’s first kill is Wyatt’s father. He confronts her and, because of reasons, they end up working as a team of sorts for the rest of the kills. They’re attracted to each other despite the circumstances and somewhat because of the increased tension and fear. Their connection’s pretty superficial, based mostly upon the fact that they’re willing to kill people and have similar musical taste, but I sort of get that. However, they only spend a couple of days together and they met when she KILLED HIS FATHER. Some ill-advised action, I can understand, but lovey feelings? FUCK NO. They keep getting mad at one another for not being trusting enough, but why the fuck would they trust each other? FUCKING WHY? Not to mention the bomb dropped by Amber: Patsy’s father was her mom’s boss. Amber also says that they might be cousins. All I know is that Wyatt’s dad was the Vice President “who fired her mom from her nicer office job downtown.” If I’m understanding this right, there’s potential incest. I mean, I’m sure it’s not, since the mom’s likely had a bunch of jobs where she worked for wealthy men and Patsy’s apparently related to Ashley Cannon and Amber (and there’s no indication they’re related to the Beards), but it still really bothers me that the possibility never even occurs to her.Then, after all of that, I’m incredibly curious to find out how Hit will wrap up, hoping that the conclusion will bring everything together and make the novel make some sort of sense to me. I was getting worried, because some pretty serious plot threads were not wrapping up, like, say, her parentage. BAM. Plot threads dangling because this is a fucking surprise series starter. I was able to confirm book two by looking at the author’s twitter feed, so that’s definitely happening. Be warned: SERIES.I will not be back to find out what happens next in Patsy Klein’s life. Hit very much missed the mark with me, lacking the humor I hoped for and just leaving me puzzled and unsettled.