Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: More of Me
Author: Kathryn Evans
Narrator: Bailey Carr
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-13-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Teens, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher's Summary:
Teva goes to school, studies for her exams, and spends time with her friends. To the rest of the world, she's a normal teenager. But when she goes home, she's anything but normal. Due to a genetic abnormality, Teva unwillingly clones herself every year. And lately, home has become a battleground. When boys are at stake, friends are lost, and lives are snatched away, Teva has a fight on her hands - a fight with herself. As her birthday rolls around, Teva is all too aware that time is running out. She knows that the next clone will soon seize everything she holds dear. Desperate to hang on to her life, Teva decides to find out more about her past...and uncovers lies that could either destroy her or set her free.
Members Reviews:
Breathless reading this, highly recommend
I loved this book [disclosure: I know the author. However, and therefore, I wouldn't be writing a review if I didn't love the book!] I picked it up late, after it had been published in the UK, where it was the first YA novel ever to win the prestigious debut novel award at the big-deal Edinburgh Literary Frestival. The US edition came out in June and I pre-ordered it because I had heard such good things about it.
More of Me did not disappoint. It starts with the new, sixteen-year-old Teva literally tearing herself out of body of the struggling, viciously angry year-younger version of herself. Now she is dealing with an enemy in her own family, whose life she's taken over. Fifteenâthe younger Tevaâdoes not go quietly.
From the first page, I was pulled into the headlong pace of the story and ended up staying up to finish it, late that night. Knowing the premise, I had been skeptical anyone could pull this off, but the characters are vivid and real, the school scenes believable (although a bit British in toneâthe US editor could have done a better job) and the conflict and plot pull you in and have you rooting for the heroine, who decides she's not going to stand for this kind of life and sets off to research and discover and fight her condition, which has condemned her "siblings"âactually just younger versions of herselfâto a housebound imprisoned life. How did this terrible fate fall on them? And why are some of them missing?
Highly recommend!
Solid Read
I feel so conflicted about this review, but here goes. Let me list the positive and the negative.
Positive:
-The concept for this is so cool and unique!
-While for a while I couldn't connect really to Teva, she does undergo a character transformation which 'saved' her for me
-I appreciate that her situation is extremely complex, but I felt that Teva was a little self-centered. However, so was I as a teenager.
Negative:
-I felt like Teva's situation could have been improved with an honest conversation with her mom
-The side characters were a little simplistic, they had a little backstory, but not as many quirks as I would have liked
-The ending was wrapped up so neatly and conveniently. I feel like it had so much potential and it could have gone so many different ways: horror-like, family drama style, or even more growth.
-When Teva is concerned about her life, she talks a little about mental illness, but in a way that was a little insensitive. Also Trigger Warning for Self Harm.
OVERALL: I felt it had a mystery element to it and it was an intriguing plot, but it lost me a little. I was confused about the characters, and disappointed at the end.
