Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
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A washed up star creates a clone tasked with eliminating other clones of herself; a whip-smart and thrilling sci-fi read that's perfect for fans of Orphan Black, Killing Eve and Keeping it Real by Justina Robson.
Her purpose is to track down and eliminate her predecessors. Simple, right?
In the glitz and glamour of Bubble City even a washed-up film star simply has too much to do, too many places to be. Thank heavens for clones. Lulabelle Rock has twelve, doing the tiresome celebrity rounds.
But times have changed: you can have too much of a good thing. And time is up for the twelve Lulabelles. A thirteenth clone, an assassin is created.
Killing yourselves should be easy. We’re talking clones, not people; it’s not murder. Not really. But love has a way of complicating things…
“An addictively enthralling SF thriller with razor sharp prose, cinematic scenes and a surprisingly tender exploration of the highs an lows of life and finding love.”
– Nils Shukla, Fantasy Hive
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Woolf debuts with a dazzling noirish romp through a near future world in which the rich and powerful can have themselves cloned into perfect copies called Portraits, which are capable of fulfilling myriad functions, but are treated as subhuman. Actor Lulabelle Rock, desperate for good publicity ahead of her next film, which is projected by the media to be a flop, commissions her 13th Portrait and tasks her with murdering her extant predecessors, the 12 previous Portraits, in the manner of a serial killer to drum up press coverage. Armed with a self-driving car, a dossier on each target, and a gun, the Portrait, who calls herself Death after the Tarot card, embarks on her grim mission across the streets of Bubble City, a satirical take on Hollywood. Each killing proves harder than the last, as Death faces doppelgängers who each embody different aspects of Lulabelle's personality—party girl, fashion model, homemaker, would-be artist—and comes to question her own identity and purpose. Worse, she even begins to sympathize with her targets. Woolf sucks readers in from the start and mines her clever premise for suspense and surprises. By turns sad, introspective, and defiantly optimistic, this tale of self-hatred, self-love, and self-discovery delights.
