In a world where cloning is here and now, The Similar tells a tale of clones, conspiracy and murder. Emmaline is a student of a prestigious school, but she dreads going back for the new year. It will be her first year without her best friend, Oliver, who died over the summer. But things are just about to get much worse, as when she gets to school, she meets the Similars, clones of her classmates that are being brought to her school for the first time ever. To top it all off, one of them turns out to be a clone of her deceased best friend. With these new students comes a mystery and danger. Why were they made? Why are they just coming to the school now? What are their plans? What are the plans for them? Emmaline has limited to figure it out before it might just be too late.The book is definitely a slow starters. A very slow starter. It takes getting through 2/3rds of the novel before things get very interesting. It felt like there were some fairly interesting ideas in the novel, but I definitely thing there was a lot of junk in-between/dead air. I did like Emmaline, but she was nothing revolutionary as a character, and the romance/romances were a little unfocused and underdeveloped. What did work for The Similars was the convolution of plot lines at the end that left me finally invested and wanting to read more. I wished I'd had that moment right before the end, but it's good that it at least happened at some point. All in all, I don't really endorse The Similars, it was just okay, and I give the Similars THREE AND A HALF STARS OUT OF FIVE!
*Advanced Readers Copy Review*
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