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Unique (2004)

by Alison Allen-Gray(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0192753355 (ISBN13: 9780192753359)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Oxford University Press

review 1: really really good. Its starts of with this boy called Dominic who has an alcoholic mum and a millionaire dad who expects to much of him. He then looks at his family photos at his grandads house and realises his mum and dad is holding another child that looks like him. He thinks its his brother but then he meets his 'brothers' university mates and knows there very edgy around him. He then meets his 'brothers' tutor, Professor Imogen Holt, and overhears a conversation between her and her husband that he's her child. He thinks she his is mother but then she tells him that when his brother died she cloned him and that clone is him. He then runs away from everything his parents, Imogen and the media and from cambridge with the possibly that somebody who knows his face. Except ... morea journalist girlfriend of his brothers recoqnizes his face and hunts him down threatening to sell his story to newspapers across the world. It is a haunting but good story that was hard to put down. 5* for the book! :)
review 2: Un ado de 15 ans découvre l'existence d'un frère aîné, décédé peu avant sa naissance, dont la ressemblance physique est plus que frappante. Ce sont de parfaites copies doubles ! Jamais ses parents n'ont parlé de lui, pourquoi ce silence ? L'enquête se poursuivra à l'université de Cambridge, là où son frère a trouvé la mort, et regroupera très rapidement tous les morceaux du puzzle. Les secrets de cette famille sont choquants, et pour le jeune héros ce n'est que le début d'une cavale infernale. Parce qu'il doit fuir son père, parce qu'il doit se construire et comprendre l'origine de son histoire. Le rythme est soutenu, toute la première partie se dévore en un rien de temps, la suite de l'intrigue cherche à poser des questions et à pousser le lecteur à réfléchir sur le thème du roman (que j'omets volontairement de citer). C'est une lecture redoutablement efficace, qui se lit aussi vite qu'un thriller, c'est prenant et très pertinent. less

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