Nine - Rachelle Dekker - Blog Tour

 ‘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.’

Here’s a good, tasty, twisty thriller that dips its toes into dystopian fiction, suspense and mystery yet also has some philosophies about past and person that gives you plenty to think about. Ideas about how individuals are programmed by their upbringing, genetics, environment, darker forces etc and whether that fundamental programming can be changed.  

At times I thought it overlong or was that just my impatience at wanting to find out the truth about what had happened? But it’s action packed with an intriguing cast of characters. Using a multi narrative approach with both first and third person alternating which unsettled me and I believe that was the intention for the premise of the story is unsettling and horrific. But……… I am no spoiler boiler so I will say no more.

The three main characters Zoe, Lucy and Seeley are complex individuals struggling with their pasts and, I guess, their presents. It was Zoe I warmed to the most. It was her basic compassion that allows her to become embroiled in this most unethical mess and puts her very survival in the balance.

It’s exciting and tense and even the reader finds themselves cautiously looking over their shoulder. For who can truly be trusted?

My thanks to Kelly Lacey and the LoveBooksGroup for having me aboard the blog tour and my gifted copy of the book itself. But blog tours are never for one blogger alone! Do head over to social media and check out what other bloggers to say about - Nine!