Twain grows up never going outside, never seeing what’s beyond the opaque glass. He longs for unity, to be fully part of the clan, not just learning about it and never able to join the group. Father says it’s safer this way. Until one day Twain is discovered, he learns he is a mutant. The punishment is usually death, but it is decided that he will join the group as a builder and survive as part of unity…or not.
Twain quickly learns that unity is not all it appears from the outside and there is a whole underworld the clan either doesn’t know exists or ignores. Twain learns that there are those who would be his friend and will risk everything to help him survive. And also that the clan is not what it seems, not at all.
This was a good book and an interesting take on cloning. It all seems so foreign to begin with and the cruelty is hard to listen to. But as I got into it, I was drawn in and by the end I was fully invested in Twain and his friends and their struggle to survive an impossible situation.
The narration by Jeff Hays is a good one. His tone and cadence is perfect for the material and almost all of the voices are male as it is about a cloned society of the same person. But, interestingly, he manages to make them all seem different and unique so I always knew who was speaking.
I received this audiobook for free through Audiobook Boom! in exchange for an honest review.