Review: Enjoyable but wanted more
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2014
I had a hard time getting into this book. The pacing was a little slow at times, and I often found my mind wandering. It had so much potential to be a fast paced, thrill a minute read, but it kind of fell flat.The story was very intriguing and quite suspenseful, and I enjoyed piecing together each clue as it was given, but by the end of the book I still felt out of the loop. I didn't quite get what the whole cloning thing was for and I wished there had been more clarity. So much was put into what Die Auserwahlten were doing, but the main result, the big WHY, was just out of grasp.Another thing that kept me feeling disconnected from this story was the unbelievable acts that sometimes occured. I know this is fiction, and I've never been pregnant before, however, some of Gisa's actions just seemed impossible. I'm not sure how she coped at nine months doing some of the daring thing she did, and it just didn't feel real.Having said all that, I still enjoyed this book to some degree. The plot was interesting, the characters were well developed and showed a lot of strength throughout the story, so much so that I was their biggest cheerleader.Unfortunately, this book was just missing that special something that draws me in completely, and doesn't let go until the very end.