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A review by silencia167
Deviation by Heather Hildenbrand
3.0
This review also appears on my blog, The Reality of Books: https://therealityofbooks.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/deviation-by-heather-hildenbrand/
I enjoyed the first book of the Clone Chronicles, Imitation. I was excited to read the next one; however, it got lost in the reading shuffle for me and the series fell off of my radar. Needless to say, I was excited to receive Deviation, by Heather Hildenbrand as a DRC.
A brief summary, in case you didn’t read the first book—Ven is an imitation, a clone. Titus Rogan is the father of Ven’s authentic, Raven Rogan. Titus is slowly replacing people in society with their clones in order to advance his own motives and eventually control society. Ven is working with other Imitations who have escaped the warehouse where they are held by Titus's people and told that they do not have souls and are thus not human.
Deviation let me down. The first book in the series was great—well written, strong characters, and an intricate weaving of science and reality. But book two feels rushed. Deviation moves from point to point to point without stopping. There is no time to enhance the characters or provide them any further development. The Ven of Deviation is light years away from the Ven of Imitation. She doesn’t come across as patient, soft, of careful—in Deviation, Ven is reckless and angry, and we don’t get a solid explanation as to why beyond the obviousness of Ven’s situation. Linc’s character changes as well—he suddenly becomes Spanish at a brief moment in the book when there has been absolutely no prior mention of his origin.
The prose in this book also feels rushed, and doesn’t stay true to the original either. There are a lot of lines that are just plain tired.
One of the best things about this book for me was the fact that it really makes you think about people, cloning, and human rights. Another great things is that the opening of this book reminded me where we left off in book one. Being as it had been quite a while, this was very much appreciated. And it didn’t feel like an info dump either—the way Hildenbrand works this in is incredibly skilled. I also really love the ending. The cliffhanger packs a definite punch. But I didn’t love the character let down or the slow moving, borderline cheesy, prose. This one gets three stars from me.
**I received Deviation as a DRC from Netgalley. I was not paid to write this review. Deviation was published on March 12th, 2014.
I enjoyed the first book of the Clone Chronicles, Imitation. I was excited to read the next one; however, it got lost in the reading shuffle for me and the series fell off of my radar. Needless to say, I was excited to receive Deviation, by Heather Hildenbrand as a DRC.
A brief summary, in case you didn’t read the first book—Ven is an imitation, a clone. Titus Rogan is the father of Ven’s authentic, Raven Rogan. Titus is slowly replacing people in society with their clones in order to advance his own motives and eventually control society. Ven is working with other Imitations who have escaped the warehouse where they are held by Titus's people and told that they do not have souls and are thus not human.
Deviation let me down. The first book in the series was great—well written, strong characters, and an intricate weaving of science and reality. But book two feels rushed. Deviation moves from point to point to point without stopping. There is no time to enhance the characters or provide them any further development. The Ven of Deviation is light years away from the Ven of Imitation. She doesn’t come across as patient, soft, of careful—in Deviation, Ven is reckless and angry, and we don’t get a solid explanation as to why beyond the obviousness of Ven’s situation. Linc’s character changes as well—he suddenly becomes Spanish at a brief moment in the book when there has been absolutely no prior mention of his origin.
The prose in this book also feels rushed, and doesn’t stay true to the original either. There are a lot of lines that are just plain tired.
One of the best things about this book for me was the fact that it really makes you think about people, cloning, and human rights. Another great things is that the opening of this book reminded me where we left off in book one. Being as it had been quite a while, this was very much appreciated. And it didn’t feel like an info dump either—the way Hildenbrand works this in is incredibly skilled. I also really love the ending. The cliffhanger packs a definite punch. But I didn’t love the character let down or the slow moving, borderline cheesy, prose. This one gets three stars from me.
**I received Deviation as a DRC from Netgalley. I was not paid to write this review. Deviation was published on March 12th, 2014.