Delilah S. Dawson
Simon Pulse
Publishing April 12th, 2016
ISBN: 1481423428 (ISBN13: 9781481423427)
After faking her own death to escape indentured servitude as an assassin for Valor Savings Bank, Patsy runs off with her boyfriend Wyatt to figure out what their next steps should be.
They meet with a mysterious group called Citizens For Freedom, led by the good ol’ boys in the Crane family. Patsy has little choice but to join their cause against Valor, but it seems working for the CFF is almost as bad as working for Valor.
Strike takes place in a near future dystopia where a company called Valor Savings Bank have their hands in just about everything. Once their subtle control reached just about everywhere in America, they started strong arming young people into killing debtors by threatening the newly minted assassins’ parents.
Strike is the sequel to Hit, but it’s fairly easy to pick up on what’s going on even if you haven’t read Hit first. Strike is full of snappy dialogue and gritty, non-stop action. As Kirkus Reviews says, “movie ready“, indeed.
JL Jamieson is a strange book nerd who writes technical documents by day, and book news, reviews, and other assorted opinions for you by night. She is working on her own fiction, and spends time making jewelry to sell at local conventions, as well as stalking the social media accounts of all your favorite writers.