This book is very hard to review. First hurdle is the title: Billy and the cloneasaurus sounds like a child's book, when it is anything but. The next hurdle is the opening line 'The Whirling Fan of Death...' which really didn't give me any hope. But I persevered and there's a reasonable book in here. It's well hidden and really takes a bit of work to find but there is a decent read in here.
Effectively Billy is a clone, a William to be precise and one of many. When an accident stops him from being slurried, he takes the place of his replacement clone and starts to be an individual.
The ideas of individuality and freedom are very interesting, however it is completely undercut by terrible world building. Why did they clone Williams? There is a passage in the book that tries to explain that its a corporate ploy to make money, but make money for whom? Is there more to the world? How did this happen and really do I care?
I think I would have cared up until the point the William 'female' clone entered the story. Yep apparently clones of yourself can be female and happy to jump into the sack with you after some banter. This bit is explained but I switched off my kindle for a bit at that.
'Billy' is a decent character but his narrative was a little wearing at times. And as the other characters were basically the same person, I couldn't tell if they were interesting or not.
It is an intriguing read but not amazing.
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Effectively Billy is a clone, a William to be precise and one of many. When an accident stops him from being slurried, he takes the place of his replacement clone and starts to be an individual.
The ideas of individuality and freedom are very interesting, however it is completely undercut by terrible world building. Why did they clone Williams? There is a passage in the book that tries to explain that its a corporate ploy to make money, but make money for whom? Is there more to the world? How did this happen and really do I care?
I think I would have cared up until the point the William 'female' clone entered the story. Yep apparently clones of yourself can be female and happy to jump into the sack with you after some banter. This bit is explained but I switched off my kindle for a bit at that.
'Billy' is a decent character but his narrative was a little wearing at times. And as the other characters were basically the same person, I couldn't tell if they were interesting or not.
It is an intriguing read but not amazing.
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