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fai_aka's review against another edition
2.0
The concept is interesting and new to me, but the romance is just so weird and wrong (-__-)
It's just weird to fall in love with someone who'd killed your father, no matter how much of a jerk the father is or how Patsy doesn't really have a choice
And how they can have a romantic relationship while on an assasin's mission! It's felt so wrong for me lol
I like the fact that Patsy did make a lot of mistakes,it makes it more real considering she's not a professional assasin
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I don't agree when she said Valor can't change her and all that, considering that she had to kill 10 people. I mean, Come on! That'll definitely going to mess you up pretty bad!
It's just weird to fall in love with someone who'd killed your father, no matter how much of a jerk the father is or how Patsy doesn't really have a choice
And how they can have a romantic relationship while on an assasin's mission! It's felt so wrong for me lol
I like the fact that Patsy did make a lot of mistakes,
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like when she panicked and accidentally pulled the trigger on Ashley, or when she regrets about a lot of things after killing AlistairRant:
I don't agree when she said Valor can't change her and all that, considering that she had to kill 10 people. I mean, Come on! That'll definitely going to mess you up pretty bad!
deadgoodbooks's review
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
celjla212's review against another edition
2.0
High schooler Patsy Klein (yes, really) has just been given an unthinkable assignment: she must kill a list of ten people, or her mother will die. It's a harsh reality that Patsy's mother is one of the millions of Americans who's taken on more debt than they can handle...and the nation's biggest bank, Valor Savings, is erasing that debt in a horrifying manner. The person who's contracted the debt has the choice to pay it back, be killed, or kill others in their same position. Patsy has decided to take on the killing for her mom.
I'm going to take a minute here to talk about how utterly ridiculous this plot is. So this banking conglomerate, Valor, is going out and KILLING the people who collectively owe them probably billions of dollars. Maybe it's just me, but this makes less than no sense. If a person who owes you a lot of money is dead, how can you ever get back any money from them? This is, unless, I'm misunderstanding the whole plot, and somehow Valor automatically takes everything the person owns after they are dead--but this was NEVER mentioned in the book.
Looking past the plot, main character Patsy is just flat and emotionless to me. Understandably, she is nervous when she has to make her first kill, but after that the assassinations become kind of matter-of-fact to her, to the point where she even takes a shower and chills out in a man's house after killing him. The killings themselves only become interesting to the plot when Patsy somewhat forcibly pieces together that all of the targets on her list have something to do with her. But, even by the end, the most intriguing thing about the book has not been unraveled.
There is a love interest, of course. Wyatt Beard goes to kill Patsy after finding out she was the one who killed his father. Inexplicably, they immediately like each other and become inseparable for the next few days. There is very, very little substance to their relationship, but that doesn't change the fact that they are somehow making out before they know each other's names. It even happens that not only did Patsy have to kill Wyatt's dad, his older brother is also on her list! Even though Wyatt knows this, they continue together towards what can only be an ill fated end.
HIT was a miss on so many levels for me, and I am disappointed because it sounded like something new in the tired young adult genre. It seems that HIT is the first book in a series, but I'm pretty sure I will not be continuing this journey.
I'm going to take a minute here to talk about how utterly ridiculous this plot is. So this banking conglomerate, Valor, is going out and KILLING the people who collectively owe them probably billions of dollars. Maybe it's just me, but this makes less than no sense. If a person who owes you a lot of money is dead, how can you ever get back any money from them? This is, unless, I'm misunderstanding the whole plot, and somehow Valor automatically takes everything the person owns after they are dead--but this was NEVER mentioned in the book.
Looking past the plot, main character Patsy is just flat and emotionless to me. Understandably, she is nervous when she has to make her first kill, but after that the assassinations become kind of matter-of-fact to her, to the point where she even takes a shower and chills out in a man's house after killing him. The killings themselves only become interesting to the plot when Patsy somewhat forcibly pieces together that all of the targets on her list have something to do with her. But, even by the end, the most intriguing thing about the book has not been unraveled.
There is a love interest, of course. Wyatt Beard goes to kill Patsy after finding out she was the one who killed his father. Inexplicably, they immediately like each other and become inseparable for the next few days. There is very, very little substance to their relationship, but that doesn't change the fact that they are somehow making out before they know each other's names. It even happens that not only did Patsy have to kill Wyatt's dad, his older brother is also on her list! Even though Wyatt knows this, they continue together towards what can only be an ill fated end.
HIT was a miss on so many levels for me, and I am disappointed because it sounded like something new in the tired young adult genre. It seems that HIT is the first book in a series, but I'm pretty sure I will not be continuing this journey.
tiarala's review against another edition
3.0
The near-future dystopian plot — a strange take on the corporate takeover of America — still feels a bit implausible to me and leaves more questions than answers. That said, I enjoyed it enough to finish it and I'm intrigued enough that I'll be picking up the sequel when it's released. I have faith Dawson has a plan and I really want to know more about the mystery. My distaste for guns and gun violence is what's souring me on the book, but she's caught my attention.
chaosmavin's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not sure what to say about this one… I really like the premise… I think I put it on my list because it was one of the contenders for Goodreads best sci-fi of the year… But it's not really sci-fi as much is it is a dystopian speculative fiction of what would happen if a bank bought the United States government. Much to my dismay it's the first book in a series… And I don't know why I somehow seem to miss the little parentheses and number one when I click I want to read a book... Not philosophically opposed to series but I much prefer a standalone. I don't know if I liked it enough to read the second book… And that's problematic. I will say it's a good premise and the way the book ends it definitely makes me curious about how the story goes from here... Best case scenario I can get my friend Nicci to read it and give me a summary!
justwanna2read's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
kpeet's review against another edition
I just can't pretend I'm going to finish this anymore. I won't. It could've been good, but it wasn't.
Was there a point to any of this? They're just driving around murdering people. This is a day in the life of a murderer, her showering, eating, driving places, arguing with people, etc. What a snoozefest. I don't even care at this point what's going to happen with the brother.
Was there a point to any of this? They're just driving around murdering people. This is a day in the life of a murderer, her showering, eating, driving places, arguing with people, etc. What a snoozefest. I don't even care at this point what's going to happen with the brother.
billblume's review
4.0
I’ve been meaning to read Hit by Delilah S. Dawson for a long time, and in a weird way, I’m glad I waited. I think this is one of those rare books that’s improving with age.
The novel came out in 2015, during the Obama era, and the notion of an American government taken over by a bank probably sounded far-fetched. In 2018, Dawson looks like a soothsayer. That’s not to say the book doesn’t feel over-the-too at times, but while Hit delivers an intense plot, it reads more like an entertaining and disturbing character study into how being forced to kill for Valor Savings in order to repay her mother’s financial debt changes Patsy, who’s spent her life poor and is very much the epitome of a “goody two shoes.”
I think my biggest concern was what would happen in the storyline regarding Wyatt. He’s the son of the first person Patsy has to kill and the brother of the last name on the list of people Valor Savings wants her to kill. I’m impressed at how Dawson makes the idea of Wyatt staying with Patsy to drive her to her kills and even protect her at times actually work. On the surface, that seems implausible, but it’s a pairing that works. You can tell Wyatt is holding back something from Patsy, and I was relieved it didn’t end up being a twist I expected (and would have hated).
It’s worth noting that I borrowed the audiobook version of this book. The reader Rebekkah Ross does a nice job with the material.
The ending satisfied me, even though it leaves a lot of plot threads unresolved. I’ll definitely be adding the sequel to my TBR list after posting this review.
The novel came out in 2015, during the Obama era, and the notion of an American government taken over by a bank probably sounded far-fetched. In 2018, Dawson looks like a soothsayer. That’s not to say the book doesn’t feel over-the-too at times, but while Hit delivers an intense plot, it reads more like an entertaining and disturbing character study into how being forced to kill for Valor Savings in order to repay her mother’s financial debt changes Patsy, who’s spent her life poor and is very much the epitome of a “goody two shoes.”
I think my biggest concern was what would happen in the storyline regarding Wyatt. He’s the son of the first person Patsy has to kill and the brother of the last name on the list of people Valor Savings wants her to kill. I’m impressed at how Dawson makes the idea of Wyatt staying with Patsy to drive her to her kills and even protect her at times actually work. On the surface, that seems implausible, but it’s a pairing that works. You can tell Wyatt is holding back something from Patsy, and I was relieved it didn’t end up being a twist I expected (and would have hated).
It’s worth noting that I borrowed the audiobook version of this book. The reader Rebekkah Ross does a nice job with the material.
The ending satisfied me, even though it leaves a lot of plot threads unresolved. I’ll definitely be adding the sequel to my TBR list after posting this review.
jenichenny's review against another edition
2.0
This author seriously needs to learn the difference between showing and telling.
tobyyy's review against another edition
3.0
I read Hit on PulseIt -- being the procrastinator that I am, I didn't actually get to it until today, which is the last day it's available. Anyway, it was a thought-provoking novel.
I feel like there's some meta-theme in it that I'm kind of missing in writing this review -- but if it comes to me in the next couple of days, I may come back and edit this review to include it. Something about debt and buying stuff you can't afford... well, duh. That's what the book was about. But I mean, more of a theme that we as a society can learn from.
Or maybe I'm just talking bullshit. :)
Anyway, it was a quick read -- took me about 3 hours all told to finish it. I liked Patsy -- she was someone that I could relate to -- and Wyatt seemed to be pretty awesome too, although I don't feel as though I got to know him as well as I did Patsy (which makes sense, since Patsy was the protagonist and this book was told from her perspective).
I didn't like how there are questions left unanswered (presumably to be answered in the rest of the series), but I kind of figured that that was going to be what happened, based on how many answers I still wanted when there were only 30 pages of the book left.
I think Hit solidly made the list of my favorite dystopian YA novels. (Not that I've actually made that list, but I really ought to sometime...) Will definitely be keeping an eye out for other books by Ms. Dawson. :)
I feel like there's some meta-theme in it that I'm kind of missing in writing this review -- but if it comes to me in the next couple of days, I may come back and edit this review to include it. Something about debt and buying stuff you can't afford... well, duh. That's what the book was about. But I mean, more of a theme that we as a society can learn from.
Or maybe I'm just talking bullshit. :)
Anyway, it was a quick read -- took me about 3 hours all told to finish it. I liked Patsy -- she was someone that I could relate to -- and Wyatt seemed to be pretty awesome too, although I don't feel as though I got to know him as well as I did Patsy (which makes sense, since Patsy was the protagonist and this book was told from her perspective).
I didn't like how there are questions left unanswered (presumably to be answered in the rest of the series), but I kind of figured that that was going to be what happened, based on how many answers I still wanted when there were only 30 pages of the book left.
I think Hit solidly made the list of my favorite dystopian YA novels. (Not that I've actually made that list, but I really ought to sometime...) Will definitely be keeping an eye out for other books by Ms. Dawson. :)