Hey everyone! Today I have a review for Rachelle Dekker's new release, Nine. This book is a Christian mystery/suspense novel that just released at the beginning of the month. Thought-provoking is definitely one word I could use to describe it, but I'll let you get to the blurb and author information before giving my full review. Read on!
BLURB
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.
Award-winning author Rachelle Dekker throws you into the middle of the action and keeps the pressure on in this page-turning story that, asks Are we who the world says we are--or can we change our story and be something more?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The oldest daughter of New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker, Rachelle Dekker was inspired early on to discover truth through the avenue of storytelling. She writes full time from her home in Nashville, where she lives with her husband, Daniel, and their diva cat Blair.
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MY REVIEW
By reading the blurb, I was expecting something completely different from the story that was delivered in Dekker's Nine. Told in multiple narratives (third person and first person alternating, which is one of the first books I've ever read like that), it alternates between the perspective of Zoe, a waitress just trying to live a normal life, and Lucy, the person who throws a wrench in Zoe's plans. The storyline is fresh and unique, and the themes of growing despite your past, and despite what other people had planned for you, were great and well-rounded. While readers are scrambling to learn about the mystery girl that shows up at Zoe's diner one night, they're also busy trying to decode Zoe's past too, which is slowly revealed throughout the story. Zoe and Lucy share many, many similarities given their past and involvement in scientific trials, but at the same time, they're radically different -- and that's what makes this story so compelling. I must admit that the main male character in this novel was not my most favorite character in the universe, but he made some pretty interesting decisions by the end of the novel as well. McCoy, on the other hand, deserved so much more and I still want to cry about him...if you read Nine, you'll see why. Overall, while this book had its flaws, I still enjoyed it. It's the kind of book that you have to sit and think about for awhile after the fact, and I'm starting to like it more the longer I think about it. So if you're in the mood for a heavy fall read, this is it.
I must admit that I struggled back and forth between what star rating I wanted to give this one -- from an action-scene standpoint, I'd give it maybe 3 stars, but the story itself was so gripping that I thought about 5 stars...so we'll average it out as a 4.
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