Kiss by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy; 2008; 322 pages; Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, TN; 978-1-59554-470-4; 3/24/09-3/26/09

Shauna McAllister begins the story with an accident that puts her in a medically induced coma, leaves her brother brain damaged and her with amnesia.  But things are not what they seem.  There are things that just don’t add up to her and things that make absolutely no sense.  Then she discovers that she has the ability to take memories from others, but only those who trust her, and she has to work to refine the ability to get the memories she wants or needs.   This leads her into all kinds of avenues of drugs, AWOL memories, human trafficking, dirty politics, and money laundering.  Shaunas’ mother died young and her idealistic father has married the wicked stepmother who despises Shauna and has ambitions of her own.  We watched ‘In Her Shoes’  last night and it just reinforced the belief that the wicked stepmother is done, it’s over, don’t do it again.  It was a good book, but not up to the usual Dekker mark.  I think any time an author starts co writing is about the time I begin to stop reading them, i.e. Tom Clancy and James Patterson.  RRr