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A review by alli_thebookgiraffe
Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard
1.0
At first i didn't know how to feel about this one. I do enjoy that there was a lot of useless information in the book. It was really interesting and the idea of the book was really great but, as far as everything else goes it wasn't all that good.
Project Cain is about a boy named Jeff. He is a clone of a serial killer named Jeffery Dahmer. He is one of many. These people in a secret part of the government would extract the DNA of all the serial killers they could and clone them. Our Jeff is in a very idealistic home. He doesn't have a mother but, other than that he has a pretty great life. They would take another Jeff and put him in a home where the parents abused him and they would try to find out if serial killers are driven into murder by their awful pasts or if they are born killers.
Now, the plot is about Jeff and Castillo and they travel around trying to find a bunch of other clones of other serial killers who are grouped together going on a killing spree.
The story is told completely in Jeff's head so there isn't any dialogue in the book at all. He would go off on tangents about the useless information which i enjoyed but, i doubt everyone would. And also, it isn't anything i couldn't find out on a Wikipedia page.It felt like i was almost reading a history book on serial killers. I also felt like the internal monologue was more making fun of teenagers versus how we actually talk. Saying "like" and "totally" a bunch of times or when he was on the phone you only got his half of the conversation and there wasn't any way to know what the other person was saying.
Project Cain is about a boy named Jeff. He is a clone of a serial killer named Jeffery Dahmer. He is one of many. These people in a secret part of the government would extract the DNA of all the serial killers they could and clone them. Our Jeff is in a very idealistic home. He doesn't have a mother but, other than that he has a pretty great life. They would take another Jeff and put him in a home where the parents abused him and they would try to find out if serial killers are driven into murder by their awful pasts or if they are born killers.
Now, the plot is about Jeff and Castillo and they travel around trying to find a bunch of other clones of other serial killers who are grouped together going on a killing spree.
The story is told completely in Jeff's head so there isn't any dialogue in the book at all. He would go off on tangents about the useless information which i enjoyed but, i doubt everyone would. And also, it isn't anything i couldn't find out on a Wikipedia page.It felt like i was almost reading a history book on serial killers. I also felt like the internal monologue was more making fun of teenagers versus how we actually talk. Saying "like" and "totally" a bunch of times or when he was on the phone you only got his half of the conversation and there wasn't any way to know what the other person was saying.