Showing posts with label Dualed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dualed. Show all posts

Monday, June 23, 2014

{YA Minute Review} Dualed (Dualed #1) by Elsie Chapman

Dualed (Dualed, #1)
In the city of Kersh, everyone must eliminate their genetic Alternate twin, raised by another family, before their twentieth birthday. West Grayer, 15, has trained as a fighter, and has one month to hunt and kill her Alt. A tragic misstep shakes her confidence. Guilty, grieving, she feels unworthy, runs from her Alt and from love - both can destroy her. {Blurb via Goodreads}
{Details} Hardcover, 292 pages. Published February 26th 2013 by Random House. Source: library

{Rating} 3/5 - I liked it!

{Review}
"I've buried nearly everyone I love. (page 1, line 1)
Dualed is exciting, original and emotional. Elsie Chapman has created a really interesting world - to survive you have to kill the person who looks exactly like you, who shares your DNA but is your mortal enemy. It made me think about what I'd do if I lived in Kersh. If I was West, a girl who has lost everyone, who is filled with guilt and doubt, what would I do? Would I be the one who survived?

This book was very focused on West's assignment, kill or be killed, I wish there had been more about the Board, more... just more everything. Still, I'm excited to see what happens next in Divided.

Friday, June 20, 2014

First Line Friday (37) Dualed (Dualed #1) by Elsie Chapman



First Line Friday is a meme hosted on Rampant Readers, where we share the first line of the novel we a currently reading in order to pique the interest of other readers like you. So basically, we just share the first sentence or two of the novel you are currently reading, and tell us whether or not it hooked you in!

The book:



Dualed (Dualed, #1)

 
In the city of Kersh, everyone must eliminate their genetic Alternate twin, raised by another family, before their twentieth birthday. West Grayer, 15, has trained as a fighter, and has one month to hunt and kill her Alt. A tragic misstep shakes her confidence. Guilty, grieving, she feels unworthy, runs from her Alt and from love - both can destroy her. (Blurb via Goodreads)
 The first line(s):

"I've buried nearly everyone I love."

Hooked?
Yep.
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