The great reveal in the last 30 pages that provides the book's most compelling moment is not nearly enough to make it worth getting through the preceding 250 pages.

The narrative feels like a stream of consciousness diary, and has all the problems and events you'd expect in a middle school and teenage diary. I suppose it does provide readers' an insight into familiar and universal experiences many people have in those young years, but in the end I am just not interested in reading that kind of diary.

In many places it just takes so long for the narrator to tell the reader a simple story. It walks you through the preceding weeks and days of an event to explain why it is significant, though in the end all those events feels so insignificant. It would have been better if it just didn't have to jump back and forth in time. Not that there is anything wrong with that in itself, but it didn't do many favors for this book.

The characters themselves just felt stupid. I get that they are sheltered and cut off from the world for most their lives, but even so it does not feel like they should be as stupid as they are. Like really? You think they will see your drawings of imaginary animals as proof you are capable of true love?

The concept itself is interesting, clones that are raised only in order for their organs to be harvested. though in my opinion the concept was poorly developed. There are plenty of other books that dive into this moral dilemma more effectively.

Maybe I should have know what I was getting into and known this was not the book for me. But in the end I read the book anyway, and here we are. I am glad plenty of others read this and found it a valuable experience, but for me it just was not worth the time.