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Impostors
by Scott Westerfeld
She’s twenty-six minutes older than me. That’s why she gives the speeches and I train with knives.
Frey is Rafi’s twin sister and body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must.
When her father sends Frey in Rafi’s place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor. But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. As the deal starts to crumble, Frey must decide if she can trust him with the truth...and if she can risk becoming her own person.
My father makes his own reality. Sometimes with force. Sometimes with atrocity.
The Imposters series is supposed be about dealing with the consequences of ending the Pretty Regime. However, in doing so, I feel like Westerfield took all that I loved from the Uglies dystopian universe and stripped it out.
After the "mind rain" (what they've called the events that happened during [b:The Uglies|13477446|The Uglies|Thomas Burchfield|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1332970581l/13477446._SX50_.jpg|19008198], [b:The Pretties], and [b:The Specials|15719589|The Specials|Kel Pollard|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1340733740l/15719589._SX50_.jpg|21401807]), it feels like we've gone back in time to the Rusty era, albeit with attack drones and spy dust because Frey and Rafi's father is a tyrannical leader that wants to steal all the metal and take over the world...kinda like what the Rusties did, amiright?
What I liked about [b: The Extras|13451247|The Extras|Kiran Nagarkar|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348218833l/13451247._SY75_.jpg|18973441] was that it took a whole new take on the society itself. I was very disappointed that this was not the same...and therein lies the rub. It seems like a lackluster fantasy when I know it's supposed to be in the Uglies universe.
My whole life, I always thought that I was the only impostor. That everyone else was certain they were real in some way that I could never understand. But what if they’re all just faking too? Maybe none of us know who we really are.
I did really like Frey's character development as she finally accepts that she's a person in her own right, not just a spare tool to be thrown away, though.
Not recommended for fans of the Uglies universe or haters of insta-love romance but an okay read none-the-less.