Review: Wild Child in overdrive
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2014
Fiona Drazen is "a party waiting to happen", and she has seemingly delighted in being the bad-girl heiress who flaunts her drug use and sex addiction to the world.Kick is the first novella in the Songs of Perdition series and it excellently sets up the story and frames the main characters of the story.  Our favorite red-headed party girl wakes in a prestigious psych hospital with no memory of what happened the night she stabbed her boyfriend.  She is raw, crass, vulnerable, feral, and scared.The plot felt thick and sluggish like Fiona coming out of her drug and meds haze.  Much of the novella involves Fiona recalling things of her near and distant past as she begins her psych evaluation and therapy.  C.D. Reiss makes the characters intense, wicked, misguided and the setting claustrophobic and confining.  Readers easily become Fiona's inmates instead of her observers.