![]() ![]() Worldbuilding is a little on the thin side, but Addie and Eva's emotions are more than enough to carry readers along.Ī thought-provoking first installment in a series that unflinchingly takes on ethically challenging topics.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. ![]() Brackets within the text differentiate Addie’s external communication and Eva’s internal dialogue with Addie, helping to clarify who is speaking when. ![]() However, when an experiment with their classmates goes wrong, Addie/Eva find themselves institutionalized and wrestling with what it means to have a voice. To hide their shame, Addie takes the dominant role and Eva becomes invisible to the outside world, thereby convincing society that they are not a hybrid. At age 6, Addie and Eva started seeing specialists to hasten the settling process, but the years of treatments have been unsuccessful. Children who don't settle are labeled hybrids and institutionalized. ![]() As young children, the two personalities were both loved and indulged by their parents, but, unlike all the other children, Addie and Eva didn't “settle.” In settling, the dominant soul takes over the single body and the recessive soul fades away. Like all children, Addie and Eva were born as two souls in the same body. An unsettling dystopian adventure of two souls trapped in a single body. ![]()
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