Review: Kiss by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy

Review by Jill Williamson

 

Shauna McAllister discovered something corrupt about her father’s campaign for president. She consults her brother, Rudy, and her therapist on the matter and decides to confront dear old Dad. As usual, they argue, and Shauna leaves angry.

 

She wakes up three months later in a hospital. Stricken with a recent-events-only amnesia, she learns that there was a car accident. Rudy has terrible mental damage. Drugs were found in Shauna’s blood, the glove compartment of her car, and her loft apartment. Shauna knows that can’t be right. She’s never taken drugs. Right? But she truly cannot remember. She starts to investigate the accident, seeking out the truth of what happened that night. But there are some who don’t want her to find out the truth, and Shauna is forced to use a drastic method of hunting for clues to reconstruct her past: stealing the memories of others.

 

Kiss was an interesting book. As usual, Ted Dekker grips you into a story that you can’t put down. I liked that Shauna didn’t know who to trust and that she made some dangerous choices. I really liked her gift of stealing memories, but I felt like it could have been explained a little better in the end. I also found it a bit predictable as far as who the bad guys and good guys were. The story was still very entertaining read, but I would have liked a bit more mystery in a mystery. Recommended.

 

Age Range: 16 and up

Genre: Suspense

Part of a Series: no

Pages: 322

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Released: 2008