WARNING - SPOILERS!!!!
I have really enjoyed some of
Haddix's books, especially Running Out of Time and Among the Hidden.
And I enjoyed this one, too, BUT ... and somehow there is always a BUT
... this one ties up a bit too neatly at the end for me. The sinister
guy stalking the teen wasn't really that sinister; Mom and Dad come back
and are as loving as ever. Worried teen is now mostly carefree and
confident.
And it leaves some things that need to be
explained completely unexplained - not even alluded to. There is no
mention, that I noticed at any rate, of just WHY Mom and Dad felt they
had to clone their first daughter, rather than simply having another
baby. You can infer that they loved their first daughter so much, they
wanted someone just like her - but that seems so shallow. And, as
caring as they have been for her every need, her every want, why in the
heck didn't they give her ANY CLUE as to why her mother cried all of the
time. They are not stupid; they have GOT to notice that Mom's
incessant crying has an effect on their daughter.
It
is an intriguing idea, just like the ideas of the other two books
mentioned above, but I think this book needed some more polishing before
being published.
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