Through the generosity of the lovely Kim Harrison, I got to read an 
ARC of The Drafter this week. I will be featuring a 5 Questions in 5 Minutes with Kim soon.
In the meantime, I wanted to tell you about the book. I liked it. I really did. In fact, I rushed home from work yesterday just so I could finish it. If keeping your audience guessing and unbalanced is an art form, Kim is a master. The concept of Trust No One is taken to the nth degree here, and you’ll want to keep reading just to find out what happens next.
The concept of the book is an entirely new one and I’ve asked Kim some questions about it that I’ll save for the 5Q5M.
The main character, Peri, isn’t Rachel, so if you are reading this for a similar look and feel and ethos as the Hollows, you will be disappointed. I admire Kim for branching out and taking such a new stance. It would easy to write a Rachel 2 character and world and just carry on without changing and growing, but Kim has not taken that easy path. She’s innovating here, and I absolutely love that.
Peri, our heroine, is a kind of super-secret agent for an organization called Opti. She has an unusual power called drafting, that allows her to slip back and change a timeline. This power manifests if she’s been shot or seriously injured and her life is at stake. The problem is that drafters cannot mentally withstand having two timelines in their heads, and so they need an anchor to help them defrag the memories into one cohesive timeline. In this story, Peri has to figure out who she can trust, because her memories and sense of self are determined by her anchor and what he or she allows her to remember. She is quite vulnerable, which is a consistent theme with Harrison’s books, but has an inner strength that I suspect will assert itself more in coming stories.
Watch for the 5Q5M with Kim soon!
