Falls the Shadow (Hardcover)

from TherinKnite

-sigh- I hate it when a book with an awesome premise (and a spectacular cover) ends up being a huge letdown. Let me count the ways this book disappointed me. ___ Firstly, the first third of the book is boring. Nothing of interest really happens -- and that is a significant chunk of the story for ...

from lost_in_here

I liked the premise but the follow-through wasn't all that great. The characters felt kind of like caricatures: the outsider, the perfect guy, the wiseass... The romance was way too instant to be believable. (And why do all of these sorts of stories need a romance anyway?) The book was basically ...

from ewyatt

Cate's sister was ill and died. But Violet was immediately replaced by her clone. Cate noticed a difference and spent her life defending her sister and knowing there was a clone at the Huxley lab just waiting to replace her in case anything should happen. The anti-clone forces and the Huxley supp...

from readingbeader

Falls the Shadow is an action filled clone book. I think with the popularity of clones (Orphan Black, anyone?) this will move fairly well at my library. It has a cool sister relationship that gives the storyline a little depth. The romance was a little much for me, in that I didn't feel like ther...