Book Review One Kick by Chelsea Cain : If you’d been abducted by a paedophile, become part of their ‘family 'for 6 years before being rescued and returned to your family at age 11- what sort of adult would you turn out to be be?

If you’d been abducted by a paedophile, become part of their ‘family 'for 6 years before being rescued and returned to your family at age 11- what sort of adult would you turn out to be be?

Well Chelsea Cain has, in Kick Lannigan, created a young woman who suffered all of that and came out of the other end a ‘survivor’. 
Kick, although a survivor is in no way a super hero. She has issues, guilt for inadvertently destroying a directory of paedophiles, and a determination to protect herself .  It is those things that make her such an intriguing, beguiling and realistic character.

When, the mysterious John Bishop offers Kit the chance to help find the latest in a series of abducted boys, she puts her distrust of the man to the side and agrees to help.  This agreement puts her in danger and forces her to face elements of her past.

One Kick plunges us into the world of organised paedophile groups and how they operate to protect their ‘family’ members.  It is fast paced and the characters are totally convincing as the time begins to run out in their search to rescue the missing child and they face more and more dangerous situations.

I was already a fan of Chelsea Cain’s Gretchen Lowell/Archie Sheridan series before reading this and so I had high expectations of One Kick.  

Fortunately, it met my expectations and I look forward to further books in the Kick Lannigan/John Bishop series.

Release Date August 4th 2014
Amazon Kindle £4.99