Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Pages: 270
Many hundreds of years
ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything
needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost
out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the
city and worst of all—the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be
engulfed by darkness….
But when two children, Lina and Doon,
discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if
there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long
ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen
to them?
Author: Sangu Mandanna
Goodreads Rating: 4.3
My Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 418
Reviewed by: Nicole
Goodreads Synopses:
Eva’s life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination—an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her “other”, if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it’s like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready.
But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this.
Now she must abandon everything she’s ever known—the guardians who raised her, the boy she’s forbidden to love—to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive.
What Eva finds is a grief-stricken family; parents unsure how to handle this echo they thought they wanted; and Ray, who knew every detail, every contour of Amarra. And when Eva is unexpectedly dealt a fatal blow that will change her existence forever, she is forced to choose: Stay and live out her years as a copy or leave and risk it all for the freedom to be an original. To be Eva.
From debut novelist Sangu Mandanna comes the dazzling story of a girl who was always told what she had to be—until she found the strength to decide for herself.
