Title: Falls the ShadowAuthor: Stefanie GaitherPublication Date: September 16th 2014Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young
When Cate Benson was a kid, her sister, Violet, died. Two hours after the funeral, Cate’s family picked up Violet’s replacement. Like nothing had happened. Because Cate’s parents are among those who decided to give their children a sort of immortality—by cloning them at birth—which means this new Violet has the same smile. The same perfect face. Thanks to advancements in mind-uploading technology, she even has all of the same memories as the girl she replaced.
She also might have murdered the most popular girl in school.
At least, that’s what the paparazzi and the anti-cloning protestors want everyone to think: that clones are violent, unpredictable monsters. Cate is used to hearing all that. She’s used to defending her sister, too. But Violet has vanished, and when Cate sets out to find her, she ends up in the line of fire instead. Because Cate is getting dangerously close to secrets that will rock the foundation of everything she thought was true.
In a thrilling debut, Stefanie Gaither takes readers on a nail-biting ride through a future that looks frighteningly similar to our own time and asks: how far are you willing to go to keep your family together?
Ugh, you have no idea how much I loved Falls the Shadow,
it's a little embarrassing. Halfway through I was thinking a solid four, and
then it just upped and upped and away it went, pretty much perfect. It reminded
me a lot of Jennifer Rush's Altered series,
but longer, It's not exactly the same as it, but the character vibes I got from
Altered I got from Falls the Shadow. That chemistry between them, when
characters just click. They bounced
off one another and it's just makes the whole book just flow a lot better
because of it.
Falls the Shadow pretty much had me from the get go with the
opening sentence, I don't usually use quotes in reviews unless they're utterly
ridiculous so I use them to rant with, but I just had to with this.
