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A review by sianhthomas
Imitation by Heather Hildenbrand
4.0
From Rebel Angel.
This book sounded like it would be right up my street - set in a Dystopian near future with the description mentioning clones. It follows Ven, who is a complete carbon copy of her wealthy counterpart Raven Rogen - she has lived her whole life in a unit packed with other clones, learning how to serve should they needed in the real world, knowing somehow that even if they aren't called to that, they may be used in other, slightly more gruesome, ways. Of course as you can imagine, Ven is finally called to serve her life's purpose as Raven in the real world - she has anticipated this every day of her life, watching videos of her, imitating her, knowing seemingly everything about her, and yet she feels nervous at the prospect. There has been an attack on Raven, and her wealthy and very important father decides the plan of action is to draw in the culprits with the fake version of her, so this is what Ven must do, and not let anyone know who she really is.
The story flows as you might imagine - it's YA so there is of course a love interest, the usual struggle with identity (heightened in this case) and also Ven's struggles to try to keep secret who she is in the face of a growing underground revolution. It was a good story, definitely what I was looking for when I picked it, but did have some slightly more childish aspects (the very rushed love story). I have read some negative reviews saying that the book delves too far into "slut shaming" and dehumanises those who choose to be more sexually active - I disagree slightly with these, as it's coming more from the perspective of someone who doesn't know this world and is not conveying the views of the author as it's fiction. Overall, a good book but not a great book. The Goodreads page for it calls it "Clone Chronicles #1", so imagine there are more to come - I'd definitely be interested in reading these and seeing where the story goes.
This book sounded like it would be right up my street - set in a Dystopian near future with the description mentioning clones. It follows Ven, who is a complete carbon copy of her wealthy counterpart Raven Rogen - she has lived her whole life in a unit packed with other clones, learning how to serve should they needed in the real world, knowing somehow that even if they aren't called to that, they may be used in other, slightly more gruesome, ways. Of course as you can imagine, Ven is finally called to serve her life's purpose as Raven in the real world - she has anticipated this every day of her life, watching videos of her, imitating her, knowing seemingly everything about her, and yet she feels nervous at the prospect. There has been an attack on Raven, and her wealthy and very important father decides the plan of action is to draw in the culprits with the fake version of her, so this is what Ven must do, and not let anyone know who she really is.
The story flows as you might imagine - it's YA so there is of course a love interest, the usual struggle with identity (heightened in this case) and also Ven's struggles to try to keep secret who she is in the face of a growing underground revolution. It was a good story, definitely what I was looking for when I picked it, but did have some slightly more childish aspects (the very rushed love story). I have read some negative reviews saying that the book delves too far into "slut shaming" and dehumanises those who choose to be more sexually active - I disagree slightly with these, as it's coming more from the perspective of someone who doesn't know this world and is not conveying the views of the author as it's fiction. Overall, a good book but not a great book. The Goodreads page for it calls it "Clone Chronicles #1", so imagine there are more to come - I'd definitely be interested in reading these and seeing where the story goes.