Details
Rent The Drafter (The Peri Reed Chronicles)
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: Apr 2016
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $9.99
Pages: 480
Synopsis
In the first explosive book in the Peri Reed Chronicles, Kim Harrison, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Hollows series, blazes a new frontier with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Detroit 2030. Double-crossed by the person she loved and betrayed by the covert government organization that trained her to use her body as a weapon, Peri Reed is a renegade on the run. Don't forgive and never forget has always been Peri's creed. But her day job makes it difficult: she is a drafter, possessed of a rare, invaluable skill for altering time, yet destined to forget both the history she changed and the history she rewrote. When Peri discovers her name is on a list of corrupt operatives, she realizes that her own life has been manipulated by the agency. Her memory of the previous three years erased, she joins forces with a mysterious rogue soldier in a deadly race to piece together the truth about her fateful final task. Her motto has always been only to kill those who kill her first. But with nothing but intuition to guide her, will she have to break her own rule to survive?
Reviews
I had a really hard time getting into this one. I loved the Hollows series, so I was looking forward to this, but it moved way too slowly.I listened through getting home to Detroit. Kim could have said all that in 6 pages instead of 6 chapters. More points of view? What were the bad guys doing all this time? So far I was into the story for several hours and we still had met only 2 of the main characters, and I already knew Peris hearthrob was a loser. Sometimes first person really works. This time not so much. I wanted to know more about the world than Peris narrow POV could give me.
This book drew me in. A very interesting premise about those with the ability to time travel and how a corrupt government might abuse their vulnerabilities. Kim Harrison created a fascinating world with real feeling characters.My only compliant was that it was a bit hard to read emotionally. The main character gets taken advantage of so much, it was hard for me to keep reading about. But theres hope for a better future for her, so read on!