Author: Rebecca Hanover
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Genre: YA Sci-fi
My Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis:
“When six clones join Emmaline’s prestigious boarding school, she must confront the heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend’s face each day in class.
The Similars are all anyone can talk about at the elite Darkwood Academy. Who are these six clones? What are the odds that all of them would be Darkwood students? Who is the madman who broke the law to create them? Emma couldn’t care less. Her best friend, Oliver, died over the summer and all she can think about is how to get through her junior year without him. Then she comes face-to-heartbreaking-face with Levi—Oliver’s exact DNA replica and one of the Similars.
Emma wants nothing to do with the Similars, but she keeps getting pulled deeper and deeper into their clique, uncovering dark truths about the clones and her prestigious school along the way. But no one can be trusted…not even the boy she is falling for who has Oliver’s face.”
It’s official everyone, I HAVE NOW READ MY FIRST BOOK ABOUT CLONES! As a newbie to this whole clones in YA thing I have to say that this book felt like a great place to start. It was an intriguing fast paced book with a ton of mystery and a dash of romance. I really enjoyed the story and would have given it a perfect 5/5 stars if there weren’t some things about it that I personally get annoyed with as a reader.
I loved the pacing of this book. It was hard to put down and easy to breeze through in one sitting. It kept a nice pace throughout with tons of different twists and mystery to keep everyone guessing. Most of the twists were done well but a few of them were predictable. I’m obviously not going to say them here, because hello spoilers, but I was a little bitter that I guessed the biggest twist in the book long before I got there. However, a lot of it still threw me off! I loved having to continuously guess about what was happening in this book. The writing delivered every twist well and It has left me eager to read the next book the moment I can get my hands on it!
The characters in this book were well written. Their personalities and development played perfectly with the plot. I loved Emma and Levi and couldn’t get enough of their romance! I’m a sucker for hate-to-love and their relationship dynamic was written perfectly.
The clones in this book were really interesting too! (and I really enjoyed how they were so different from their originals). I would read the crap out of novellas about each of their lives individually before they came to Darkwood Academy just to understand them a little better!
Overall I had a great time reading this book! It was interesting, quick, and full of mystery that kept me guessing. I CANNOT wait for the next book to see how this story wraps up and until then I will be hugging this book and trying to guess exactly how everything will play out.
PS Thank you to @bookish_kali on Instagram for gifting me an ARC copy of this book!
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