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Ricochet
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Brenda Roseberry’s youth was fractured with personal loss and sexual assault. In response, she’s trained her body through rock climbing and Isreali martial arts. Her genius at engineering tends toward the devious: she invents technology that allows her to see through walls, along with bulletproof clothing and specialized grenades.
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Move over, Laura Craft! A new video game hero-anti-hero has arrived!
With a sense of stubborn aloneness, graced with hyper-athletic finesse and a solid tinge of malevolence, Brenda is a crazy train of fierce. She’s a Robin Hood of right over wrong, whatever side she decides. Even if/when the sides switcheroo on her – and you!
She’s an uncommon Cat Woman, a Sasha Fierce, a Wonder Woman with barbs rather than deflecting cuffs.
Author David Kennedy performs a high wire act with vigorous prose and vibr ...more
With a sense of stubborn aloneness, graced with hyper-athletic finesse and a solid tinge of malevolence, Brenda is a crazy train of fierce. She’s a Robin Hood of right over wrong, whatever side she decides. Even if/when the sides switcheroo on her – and you!
She’s an uncommon Cat Woman, a Sasha Fierce, a Wonder Woman with barbs rather than deflecting cuffs.
Author David Kennedy performs a high wire act with vigorous prose and vibr ...more
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The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Ricochet is spooky. Not the story itself, but the main Character. Brenda lost her parents at a very young age and her life has been hard ever since. Dealing with life, she made herself into the kick-ass machine. Her body is worked to perfection, she has incredible endurance, can climb and transfer herself into anyone (with help of wigs and accessories). What is the most thrilling about her, is her personality. ...more
The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Ricochet is spooky. Not the story itself, but the main Character. Brenda lost her parents at a very young age and her life has been hard ever since. Dealing with life, she made herself into the kick-ass machine. Her body is worked to perfection, she has incredible endurance, can climb and transfer herself into anyone (with help of wigs and accessories). What is the most thrilling about her, is her personality. ...more
# What I liked
I don't want to spoil everything so I'm telling you only the technical things that I liked or didn't.
First of all the writing style was great. I found myself to be engulfed by the novel like immediately after the first few sentences. I had absolutely no problems getting into the story and even though I didn't like the novel as much at the beginning as I did towards the end, I found myself being fascinated by it. The story is written in the third POV of Brenda so it's pretty easy to ...more
I don't want to spoil everything so I'm telling you only the technical things that I liked or didn't.
First of all the writing style was great. I found myself to be engulfed by the novel like immediately after the first few sentences. I had absolutely no problems getting into the story and even though I didn't like the novel as much at the beginning as I did towards the end, I found myself being fascinated by it. The story is written in the third POV of Brenda so it's pretty easy to ...more
Brenda is one of those main female leads that you want on your side. She is kick-ass, with incredible endurance. Her personality is captivating. Nothing bothers her and she rains vengeance on bad guys, and she was just a really awesome character to read.
This story is really driven by Brenda. It was almost like watching an action video game, and it reminded me a bit of Tomb Raider because of Brenda. I really liked that aspect.
David Kennedy has a knack for describing heart-pounding action. This is ...more
This story is really driven by Brenda. It was almost like watching an action video game, and it reminded me a bit of Tomb Raider because of Brenda. I really liked that aspect.
David Kennedy has a knack for describing heart-pounding action. This is ...more
With chilling, sometimes disturbing but always thought-provoking elements, David Kennedy carves out a novel with a distinctive narrative style. Brenda Roseberry is unique- and that, friends, is an understatement. Whether Brenda is a symptom of today's culture or a cure for it is debatable, but Kennedy's adept story-telling ability is not. Well created, readable and ultimately quite...surprising, this book will keep you engaged until the very end. This is not the genre I typically read, and this
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Lots of action as Brenda, the protagonist, begins work for secret agency SCRAM putting to work so many skills, talents, and techie inventions that James Bond would be jealous. Jumping into her psyche and history reveals much more of the character and the problems she faces. Looking for a serious thriller, try elsewhere, this is pure escapism. I received an advanced digital copy through #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Whilst I enjoyed parts of this book, I felt it was a little hard to follow in the beginning, and took me a while to get into. Brenda is her own brand of crazy, a vigilante working for a secret organisation, to take out different kinds of criminals. She doesn't really trust anyone, and rightly so. I did enjoy the story more as it went along, and understood more about Brenda and why she is the way she is.
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Ricochet is compelling and fast-paced. The female protagonist is quirky but cunning: an overall badass. In coordination with the tight plot, skilled writing, and plenty of action scenes, Ricochet will have you turning pages and wanting more!
Very strange
This is one weird macabre book ! Overwritten in some places,
It is part science fiction, part greeny protest, and a jumble of basic hostilities against humanity
This is one weird macabre book ! Overwritten in some places,
It is part science fiction, part greeny protest, and a jumble of basic hostilities against humanity
Oct 29, 2018
Nancy (The Avid Reader)
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it was amazing
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Brenda is a young woman who has had a hard life. But she has trained herself to be even harder than life itself. Brenda is one tough woman who can take anything life sends her way. She has taught herself to be tough and trained in martial arts. Brenda is one bada** who can take on just about anyone and survive. My opinion is this if you see Brenda coming then run like h3ll.
Brenda is hired by this secret company to do the one thing that she is good at and that is tracking people down and getting ...more
Brenda is hired by this secret company to do the one thing that she is good at and that is tracking people down and getting ...more
Nov 02, 2018
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Ricochet is a medley of vigilantism, pulp feminism, and a splattering of misdirected romance. Kennedy's take on the fractured soul of a woman, who just happens to prefer the deviance over honor, is dark and gritty.
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