Wow! Different. A SYFY , medical, mystery around cloning.

Only made it half-way.Had to give up. Was tedious reading. I had no idea what the point of the story was, and could not see the connection between the two simultaneous storylines!

Don't read this. You're welcome.

Engaging and exciting story for about 2/3 of the book. The latter part became tedious and exhausting.

Pretty good mystery sci-fi novel

Pretty decent thriller. A bit too long. Well paced and with some twists and turns, particularly in the end. There is a lot of the whole "when does science cross the line from good to evil", "what things are we meant to control and what we're not" sort of action going on. The science writing was done pretty well and accessible to layman reader. Recommended for fans of thrillers with mad scientists.CAUTION minor sort of SPOILERS ahead.Reading this book, I couldn't help but think that this is basic...

Thrill....Suspense....Science. Rolled into one. This is definitely a page turner. Talks about DNA's and experiments that scares the hell out of me. It makes me wonder if all these things would eventually happen in the near future...hhmmm....the book is a page turner...go ahead and take a look at it...

ARGH. The entire thing was written in 3rd person. It had a few short spoken conversations, but not nearly enough to make up for the "3rd-personness". Darnton did his research--all the science was legit, all the theories were plausible, the results were what's to be expected in cloning research.I could barely make it through. Don't read it.

Read in 2000. Riveting medical thriller.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first picked this book up. While some of my expectations weren’t met, it was overall a good read. I really appreciated how Darnton infused scientific facts and experiments with realistic fiction, it really added to the creep factor! The only downsides I saw were a few small grammatical errors that threw me off, and how the book wrapped up. It felt very predictable and it would have been nice to end with more questions, but that’s just how I interpreted the the...

Skyler was raised on an island of the Louisiana coast and has had no contact with the outside world. A reporter, Jude is investigating a murder in New Paltz, NY that has some strange twists. the FBI is interested in the murder. Skyler escapes from the island and tracks down Jude because hey look identical. Skyler notes that Jude's girlfriend, Tizzie, looks exactly like his girlfriend back on the island. So - what kind of experimentation is going on at that island? It's the stuff of science ficti...

I found this book exciting. The story begins on an island where children are brought up without parents. Then the story skips to New York, and the reader follows the life of a newspaper reporter for a while. Suddenly the lives of the main character from the island and the one in New York collide in strange ways. Readers who like science fiction will enjoy. A couple of delightful twists really surprised me in the end.

I picked this book up originally because it sounded interesting. A secluded island with a bunch of people in their mid 20's who discover one of their friends dead in the basement of the main building. On the main land a reporter is looking into a story about a body that was found that was missing the face, finger tips and some of the internal organs. I mean how can that not pull you in. It did, at least for the first 200 pages.I felt that the middle section of this book was just way to freaking

This is an adventure story and a horror book if the reader considers the consequences. Extremely rich people pay big bucks to have clones of themselves created and raised in case a transplant is needed, in which case there's no reason to hunt around the world for potential donors who might be compatible. This is a similar story to a movie named the Island.

I'm classing this rather uninterestingly titled piece as "Medical Sci Fi Mystery Thriller."An interesting, if no longer quite novel, premise: moderately successful New York reporter unexpectedly meets his own clone and together they uncover a sinister conspiracy for life extension which implicates many of the rich and powerful. There's a lot of hard science in the book, which the author presents in an interesting manner nicely comprehensible to a laymen. Clearly this is his forte. Unfortunately

I didn't finish this book. I got half way through and it bored me to the point that I kept putting it down. I was captivated in the beginning but lost interest in the long scientific dialogue throughout. There are long talks about genetics and twins and despite being one myself it just didn't interest me.

I enjoyed this book, though I felt it took a little while for the pieces to start connecting and also that there were an awful lot of coincidences in the plot. I suppose if you are a spiritual person (even though this wasn't a book that leaned on religious themes to carry it), I can see where the idea of destiny could explain it. The overall concept was interesting, though to go into too much detail would spoil it.Published author Jude is promoting his first book when Skyler escapes from the isl...

The basic premise was interesting but the writing was quite bad. Excruciating detail for things that were commonplace and warranted the barest glossing over but scenes and actions which required descriptive detail were rushed by. Clearly the author was unable to correctly prioritize focus. The characters were very unevenly drawn. In a blatant effort to create suspense, the author would have the characters make lame decisions, arbitrarily decide to withhold information, or have hyper-convenient m...

A Michael Crichton likw science/medical thriller based on cloning and lengthening human lifespans. The book was alittle uneven and drawn out in laces. But the concept was good and the book enjoyable.

I read this years ago, when I was in high school or college. It left an impression on me, though, as being plausible, if not necessarily realistic. That's the only way I like science fiction - as something that COULD theoretically happen, and therefore is much more thought-provoking.I'm glad I stumbled around until I found the title of this, because it's one I'd like to recommend to people and couldn't because it had been so long since I'd read it that I'd forgotten the title and author! Definit...