Book Review: Hit

Title: Hit (Hit #1)
Author: Deliah S Dawson
Genre: Young Adult //Dystopia
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication Date: April 14, 2015
Format: Audiobook
Source:  Purchased (Audible)

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 rebellion 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 (goodreads).

Hit asks more questions than it is prepared to answer.

Book Review: Twisted

Title: Twisted (Tangled #2)
Author: Emma Chase
Genre: New Adult // Romance // Contemporary // Humor
Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication Date: March 25, 2015
Source: Purchased (Audible)
Format: Audiobook

There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who look first, and the ones who leap. I’ve always been more of a looker. Cautious. A planner. That changed after I met Drew Evans. He was so persistent. So sure of himself – and of me.
But not all love stories end happily ever after. Did you think Drew and I were going to ride off into the sunset? Join the club. Now I have to make a choice, the most important of my life. Drew already made his –in fact, he tried to decide for the both of us. But you know that’s just not my style. So I came back to Greenville. Alone. Well, sort of alone....
What I've come to realize is that old habits die hard and sometimes you have to go back to where you began, before you can move ahead (goodreads).

Emma Chase brings back the fun and drama but from a different perspective, and it's just as good if not better than Tangled!

Book Review: Ruby Red

 Title: Ruby Red (The Ruby Red Trilogy #1)
Author: Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell
Genre: Young Adult // Romance // Time Travel
Publisher: Henry Holt
Publication Date: May 10, 2011
Format: Audiobook
Source: Purchased (Audible)

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era!
Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon--the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential. Together, Gwyneth and Gideon journey through time to discover who, in the 18th century and in contemporary London, they can trust (goodreads).

Ruby Red is a fast past time travelling novel with memorable characters! I wish I had known about this series earlier!

[Book Review]Americanah

Title: Americanah
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Genre: Contemporary // Social Issues
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: May 14, 2013
Format: Audiobook
Source: Purchased (Audible)

As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze—the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor—had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion—for their homeland and for each other—they will face the toughest decisions of their lives.
Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s most powerful and astonishing novel yet (goodreads).

 

This was one of those books that I had head A LOT about, but had always said "eh, one day." Finally, I took the plunge and purchased the audiobook, and it takes so much energy for me to stop singing its praises!

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