5/30/2023 0 Comments Cut Off by Adrianne Finlay![]() ![]() ![]() In this consistently well-structured world, Finlay weighs the cost of conformity verses rebellion, and the narrative's gracefully restrained style amplifies the story's profound underlying emotions. River, Trip, Cam, and Liza are all very different but compliment each other well. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 17. I was fascinated by the premise of Cut Off a bunch of teens are on a reality show where they are put in. Finlay introduces a second protagonist in Althea, a clone who develops an affinity for Jack that she doesn't understand and which threatens the collective harmony of her community. ARC Review: Cut Off by Adrianne Finlay My Review. After a life of painful isolation, Jack finds there are dangerous fissures in the clones' culture%E2%80%94some cracks he has caused but others that arise from generations of genetic manipulation. But the generation of clones who raised Jack failed to integrate him with clones his own age. Long after the death of the human race from the Slow Plague, a series of nine models of clones are all that is left resembling humanity%E2%80%94save Jack, the only human boy alive in the world. ![]() ![]() Finlay's fine debut novel is a dystopian story about a future society gone terribly wrong due to irresponsible cloning. Cut Off by Adrianne Finlay Competing in a wilderness survival reality show for a million-dollar prize, a group of teens discover that they have been. ![]()
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