So I'm back with another book review. We read this one in class together. The teacher picked it. And boy, was it a good pick! I really like Nancy Farmer books, this is one of the great ones that she's written.So this story takes place in the future (ooh I love books that take place in the future... there is always so much creativity in the book...), and it is about a boy named Matteo Alacran who learns that he is the clone of El Patron, a powerful drug lord who is the tyrant in the country of Opium. As a clone, Matt is considered and treated like an animal by El Patron's greedy family. They throw him in a room that is quite like a cell and leave a maid to abuse him. Later, El Patron discovers what his relatives are doing to Matt, and quickly rescues him and puts him under the care of Celia, a surrogate mother, and Tam Lin, a scottish bodyguard. They become like mother and father to him. But, growing up trapped in a society where enemies are all around, he eventually flees the escape, only to be captured by "Keepers" who push him towards the direction of a whole new problem.
Trying to escape from one problem after another, he finds himself thrown into a chain of traumatizing and life-changing events.
I thought this book was very riveting. It is by far the best futuristic fiction book that I have ever read. You find yourself skipping parts because you are so desperate to find out what will happen next. This is definitely one of the few books that I have read that are irresistible and almost... mind-controlling. It is such a great book, and if I had to pick one book to read for the rest of my life, it would be this one. (no doubt!)
Alrighty then, see you!
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