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aviabraham's review against another edition
2.0
I really wanted to like this book! The concept and themes were what drew me in, but I just couldn’t get on board with the writing. It was super confusing and felt sort of aimless to me.
audaciaray's review against another edition
4.0
Very funny and bizarre. If you liked Orphan Black, you will like this book.
joemacare's review against another edition
4.0
A prescient satire about ableism, genetic engineering, and the morality of science & medicine, with a brilliantly messy protagonist whose love life is a train wreck.
martha_w's review against another edition
5.0
So great. Anne Hatley was chosen to go to The Colony because of her DNA. The story follows her through her months at The Colony as she develops relationships with her fellow colonists and works with the doctors. Interesting story-telling that bounces around all over the place, but still manages to follow a clear narrative. In other words, weird and quirky, but still very human. Loved it.
acinthedc's review against another edition
3.0
An interesting premise- a genetics company has recruited a group of individuals for their "defective" genes in order to study their genes and offer them a cure. If given the option to grow a limb you'd never had, would you do it? That's the central question posed to the protagonist, Anne Hatley, as she also wrestles with lovers past and present.
Weise does a great job of exploring how Anne identifies herself, how she believes others think about her, and how she wants to be perceived. Some elements of the story left me scratching my head (floating, Darwin), and others left me wanting more, specifically on the ethics of the experiments being conducted at the Colony. Overall, a well written novel.
Weise does a great job of exploring how Anne identifies herself, how she believes others think about her, and how she wants to be perceived. Some elements of the story left me scratching my head (floating, Darwin), and others left me wanting more, specifically on the ethics of the experiments being conducted at the Colony. Overall, a well written novel.
johannalm's review against another edition
1.0
Unreadable. Just didn't care where it was going and what she had to say.
mattie's review
3.0
I liked:
- the unconventional way this was written -- the interludes of lists, etc
- the protagonist, generally
- the commentary on ableism and genetic ethics
I didn't so much like:
- how eventually the characters got so ~*~quirky~*~ that they were paper dolls doing things that don't make sense with no consequences. Character X makes a suicide attempt (real? fake?) and within one sentence -- in the middle of the scene! -- it's completely forgotten, never to be mentioned again. The main character acts super cold (to her love interest) or false (cheerily telling people being incredibly rude that it's fine) most of the time, and it's often hard to understand why. (I also couldn't get into the love interest calling everyone baby the second he met them; who does that?)
- the Darwin bits got fairly tedious as the book went on. In general, the pacing was fairly slow.
- the unconventional way this was written -- the interludes of lists, etc
- the protagonist, generally
- the commentary on ableism and genetic ethics
I didn't so much like:
- how eventually the characters got so ~*~quirky~*~ that they were paper dolls doing things that don't make sense with no consequences. Character X makes a suicide attempt (real? fake?) and within one sentence -- in the middle of the scene! -- it's completely forgotten, never to be mentioned again. The main character acts super cold (to her love interest) or false (cheerily telling people being incredibly rude that it's fine) most of the time, and it's often hard to understand why. (I also couldn't get into the love interest calling everyone baby the second he met them; who does that?)
- the Darwin bits got fairly tedious as the book went on. In general, the pacing was fairly slow.
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