The Unquiet
Author: Mikaela Everett
Publication Date: September 22nd 2015
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
For most of her life, Lirael has been training to kill—and replace—a duplicate version of herself on a parallel Earth. She is the perfect sleeper-soldier. But she’s beginning to suspect she is not a good person.
The two Earths are identical in almost every way. Two copies of every city, every building, even every person. But the people from the second Earth know something their duplicates do not—two versions of the same thing cannot exist. They—and their whole planet—are slowly disappearing. Lira has been trained mercilessly since childhood to learn everything she can about her duplicate, to be a ruthless sleeper-assassin who kills that other Lirael and steps seamlessly into her life.
An intricate, literary stand-alone from an astonishing new voice, The Unquiet takes us deep inside the psyche of a strong teenage heroine struggling with what she has been raised to be and who she really is. Fans of eerily futuristic and beautifully crafted stories such as Never Let Me Go, Orphan Black, and Fringe will find themselves haunted by this unsettling debut.
IS IT BAD I’M ONLY NOW NOTICING THE COTTAGE ON THE COVER?
Probably. The comparison to Never Let Me Go-which I haven’t read-so guess who’s
out of her depth? Yes, Me-but now I do want to read it because The Unquiet was
bloody brilliant.
