Prototype
A Novel
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4.2 • 9 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
From a writer to whom “comparisons to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and S.J. Watson’s Before I Go To Sleep are justified” (Library Journal), in Prototype, a woman’s dual pasts lock onto a collision course
Emma looks forward to the day when she can stop running from her past—both of them. But when Declan Burke decides he wants his wife back, there’s nowhere on the planet she can hide. One man could help her, but he’s the person Emma most dreads confronting: Noah Tucker. When she finally returns to face him, Emma discovers that Noah has moved on and another woman is raising their daughter.
Emma will stop at nothing to reveal the truth and prove she isn’t the woman they thought she was. Even if it means she winds up dead. Or worse, reborn.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This disappointing follow-up to Archetype develops its predecessor's weaknesses rather than its strengths. The first novel believably showed the emotional turmoil of Emma, a beautiful young clone, as she recovered from her past and found herself torn between two men: Declan Burke, a ruthless tycoon who had her cloned and loved her as a possession, and Noah, her true lover and a leader of the underground resistance against the oppressive system. Uncertain of her identity, Emma fled from both. The sequel begins with Emma on the run, but when Declan's attempts to recapture her become too bothersome, she takes refuge with the resistance, where she finds Noah and their daughter comfortably settled into a relationship with another woman. Much hullabaloo follows, sometimes in martial arts combat, sometimes in swoony romantic moments, and sometimes in both simultaneously. Emma's tortured psyche is still impressive, but the plot is too clumsy to carry the heavy load of passion.
