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This is a book about a boy, Matteo Alacrán, who finds out he is the clone of the real Matteo Alacrán, and learns that he has an entire family; or at least he is a clone of someone who does. This happens only after he escapes his cabin, where he lived the first at least 7 years of his life, for the first time ever, but he also finds that clones are loathed by everyone and not thought of as human, or as having a soul. María was the only one who ever really appreciated him for who he was. This book was written well: everything was described well without wasting space on the pages. The plot of this story was good and had a lot of twists, but it could have still been improved in some ways, for example Farmer could have gone into more detail about what happens at the end, and even though her ending worked OK, it would have been better to actually include some of his adult life. Another thing in this book that bothered me was how many characters there were that were not explained enough except for a sentence about them before the first chapter. This made the entire book very confusing and I found myself looking back to the page of characters constantly to find who Farmer was talking about. The problem was not having the character page there, it was the fact that the character page actually needed to be there to understand the story. This story was not a very fast paced one, as most of the time Matt was in the Big House either learning to play the piano or studying hard to prove to everyone that a clone is just as capable of doing anything as everyone else. The story's pace seemed to speed up nearing the end of the novel, although still not quite as fast as action and adventure novels. Overall this was a pretty good book and was written OK, but it was not the type of book I would usually read, so I would give it a 7/10 if I had to rate this novel.