The Similars

The Similars
by Rebecca Hanover

Emma is at a prestigious boarding school when six clones join the junior class.  Cloning is illegal and there was a big discussion and secrecy of who the clones are.  They are not allowed to share with the outside world who the clones are.

Emma's best friend, Oliver died just a few months ago.  She is still in mourning and she is shocked when one of the clones looks just like Oliver.  She immediately takes a dislike to Oliver's clone, but it makes you wonder if they will eventually become friends, or more.  He is Oliver's clone and they might have similar personalities, or he might be a completely different person with the same face, who knows.

It was interesting, bringing the clones to school.  A discussion of are clones human, do they have rights, are they the same as their human original?

If the author writes more in this series, I would read them.  However, for a young adult book with clones at a school, I would recommend Rachel Vincent's Brave New Girl series. That one was really good.  

This one was still a good story, it just felt like for a while the story wasn't actually going anywhere and I was starting to wonder what was the point, it picked back up towards the ending and had a couple of surprises.