Replica: Volume 1

Jenna Black

Jul 2013 · Replica Book 1 · Sold by Tor Teen

About this ebook

REPLICA is the breathtaking new SF novel from JENNA BLACK, author of the Faeriewalker series.

Sixteen-year-old Nadia Lake's marriage has been arranged with the most powerful family in the Corporate States. She lives a life of privilege even if she has to put up with paparazzi tracking her every move, every detail of her private life tabloid fodder. But her future is assured, as long as she can maintain her flawless public image—no easy feat when your betrothed is a notorious playboy.

Nathaniel Hayes is the heir to the company that pioneered human replication: a technology that every state and every country in the world would kill to have. Except he's more interested in sneaking around the seedy underbelly of the state formerly known as New York than he is in learning to run his future company or courting his bride-to-be. She's not exactly his type...not that he can tell anyone that.

But then Nate turns up dead, and Nadia was the last person to see him alive.

When the new Nate wakes up in the replication tanks, he knows he must have died, but with a memory that only reaches to his last memory back-up, he doesn't know what—or rather, who—killed him.

Together, Nadia and Nate must discover what really happened without revealing the secrets that those who run their world would kill to protect.


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Ratings and reviews

I have a thing for young adult, futuristic fiction. I enjoyed how there was a strong main character who was a female, but didn't end up falling in love with the supposed love interest. Usually, the girl starts of being hardcore and all 'I-don't-need-a-boyfriend' and ends up with the boy. Instead the boy is her best friend and, yes, they're engaged (kinda), but they are just good friends. This message needs to be encouraged, just because you are friends with someone of the opposite gender, doesn't mean you 'like' each other. It was very typical, however, of there being lots of technology and the bad guys are at the top with all the power and the poorer people have no input at the bottom.

What is this new overused, boring thing with having unlikable, irredeemable characters? I couldn't read this because there was not a single interesting person in the book.

It was really good

About the author

JENNA BLACK is your typical writer. Which means she's an "experience junkie." She got her BA in physical anthropology and French from Duke University. Once upon a time, she dreamed she would be the next Jane Goodall, camping in the bush making fabulous discoveries about primate behavior. Then, during her senior year at Duke, she did some actual research in the field and made this shocking discovery: primates spend something like 80% of their time doing such exciting things as sleeping and eating. Concluding that this discovery was her life's work in the field of primatology, she then moved on to such varied pastimes as grooming dogs and writing technical documentation. She is now a full-time writer and lives in North Carolina with her husband. Her books include Shadowspell and Watchers in the Night, which was nominated for the 2006 Paranormal Excellence in Romantic Literature (PEARL) award.