More of Me

The first thing I thought when I finished this book: What the tingling Teva did I just read?

I was interested in the cloning part. The Sci-fi mystery part. Why does Teva duplicate every year? And it was interesting seeing the strangeness of living in a house filled with your older selves, and sharing memories with those selves, and...it was interesting!

But the author doesn't let the book be about that interesting stuff. Instead, she turns it into a generic high school drama with the sci-fi stuff in the background.

Why? I don't care about the creepy Ollie guy, or Tommo who wants Teva to rub baby oil on his chest. I don't care! They aren't interesting characters, they don't raise the stakes for what should be the main plot.

I do care about conflicts directly related to Teva's “condition”, like when she worries about showing too much of her weirdly-marked clone skin during a fashion show. But that's it.

The climax was kinda dumb.

Teva dies, and a new Teva comes out and yells at her lab dad (who completely appears out of nowhere. Well, I guess it was hinted at earlier, but come on...) to tell him YOU DID THIS! And everyone backs her up and they make a big scene out of it...And the clones all go to school and get normal lives...But there is no solution. Our protagonist just died for no reason. And will Teva keep cloning until she dies? Or is every old Teva gonna die, like 16, when the new Teva emerges? Nobody knows!

This book would have been good on Wattpad, but as a published book it's a bit disappointing.