The Drafter by Kim Harrison
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Reviewed by: Andrew Zollman
What I Read: The Drafter by Kim Harrison
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What It's About: In this first novel in the Peri Reed Chronicles, Kim Harrison touches on a new frontier in science fiction with an edge-of-your-seat thriller filled with spies and time travel that will keep you guessing until the very end.
In the near future, Peri Reed is an Opti Soldier trained to complete U.S. government missions others would never dream of being able to complete. The year is 2030, the setting is Detroit. Peri is 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 has become 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?
What I Thought: Kim Harrison’s new
novel The Drafter is a fast paced techno-thriller that pushes the boundary of
morality and understanding of the world around you. Peri Reed is a very strong
character with a very unique problem. The people around her as using her, and
because she can draft she doesn’t know who she can trust.
Peri can take care of herself in a fight, but at
times can seem fragile and broken. She’s been used by both sides for so long
that her life has become a fragmented mess. The book will keep pulling you in
different directions, but your feelings toward other characters in the
story will be immediately grounded by their actions.
Kim Harrison doesn’t pull any punches and even if
you think you know where the story is going, you don’t have all of the details.
The Peri Reed Chronicles reminds me a little bit of the movie Time Cop without
the horrible acting or the need for a fancy device or machine to make the
process work. The characters mesh well together and provide support for Peri
throughout the story through their actions.
If you like sci-fi thrillers with a strong female
protagonist, but don’t like space ships or far futures, I would recommend this
book to you. If you do get to read the book, I would recommend Kim Harrison’s first
adult fiction Hollows Series. You won’t be disappointed.
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