Finding Gideon book review

Sometimes when you're looking for everybody else, you end up running into and finding yourself. That’s what today’s book is all about.

Finding Gideon is written by Eric Jerome Dickey. The genre of the book is fiction, and the theme is suspense thriller.

I’ve read this book before. I’ve probably read it five times. And while rereading it, I kept thinking, “I’m so sorry Gideon, I’m gonna miss you,” because I know there’s no more after this.

In Finding Gideon, Eric Jerome Dickey takes a departure from what he typically does in the prior books.

Yes, it’s about Gideon, but we finally get to see the point of view from other characters, and that was my favorite thing about this book.

We’ve been following Gideon ever since Sleeping With Strangers, Waking With Enemies, Dying for Revenge, and Resurrecting Midnight. In every book, we’ve only really seen Gideon’s side of things. We know how he feels, what he’s going through, why things matter to him. We’ve watched him meet people, love people, and get rejected by people.

We’ve been right there with him the whole time.

But Finding Gideon is the first book where we hear from the people chasing him down. We hear from Preacher. We hear about Shotgun. We even get Scamzito’s perspective.

And if you’ve read the series, then you already know:

“We don’t like Scamzito.”

Gideon is 28 or 29 years old, and he’s never really had a best friend because he and his mother have spent his entire life moving and staying on the run. Then he finally gets one: Alvin “Shotgun” White.

This book gives us a behind-the-scenes look at all these people connected to Gideon, and that was such a brilliant choice because as Gideon is learning about himself, we also get to see what everybody else thinks about him.

You get to see the respect Mideonoce has for Gideon.

You get to see how much hatred Scamzito has for Gideon.

You get to see the loathing Preacher has for Gideon.

And you get to see the love Shotgun has for Gideon.

It’s rare that we get to step outside the main character and really understand what everybody else in the circle is feeling, and I absolutely loved that.

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Now I will say this.

The entire Gideon series is basically him trying to hunt down and kill one woman.

I’m not saying anything else.

But I do think the woman in this book matters in a major way because when Gideon starts discovering the roots of this one person, it starts to explain everything else in his life.

You really have to read the book to understand that.

But I think seeing all these different perspectives and emotions becomes important while Gideon is finding himself. All he really knows are the stories his mom told him: your dad used to fight bulls with his bare hands and jump out of planes.

So Gideon’s trying to figure out, “Okay, I know all that… but who is he really?”

Would I reread Finding Gideon?

Yes. Absolutely yes.

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Until the next book review, 

Kyla