When I went into reading One Kick, I was excited. I have loved all of the Heartkiller series books by Chelsea Cain, and I was interested in reading some new characters and a fresh story. At least, I hoped it would be.It took a bit for me to get excited about One Kick. The story really ramped up towards the middle, but overall it left sort of a strange taste in my mouth. The story followed Kick Lannigan, a trained fighter, archer, and markswoman. As the story unfolds, you find out that Kick used to be Beth, who was abducted at a young age and had some truly terrible things happen to her (if you are not good with suggestions of child abuse, this is definitely not the book for you). She takes it upon herself, along with a mysterious detective named John Bishop, to find children who have been abducted, as she has a sneaking suspicion her abductor has something to do with it.
Without giving too much away, I will say that the book was still moderately exciting, except it felt like an offshoot and too similar a storyline to the Gretchen and Archie storyline from the Heartkiller books. I was not at all disappointed in it and didn't feel like it was a waste of my time completely, but would have much rather it hadn't felt like a transplant of new characters in the oh-so-familiar story. As the first book in a new series, the flat, sudden ending also made it difficult to see a sequel, or series, coming out of it. I am not giving up hope completely, but also hope that the next installment can be refreshing and not so similar to the Heartkiller saga.
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