Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist.
Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air induces a strange, euphoric high, which only the island's workers-soulless clones like Elysia-are immune to.
At first, Elysia's life is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesne's human residents, who should want for nothing, yearn. But for what, exactly? She also comes to realize that beneath the island's flawless exterior, there is an undercurrent of discontent among Demesne's worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not care-so why are overpowering sensations clouding Elysia's mind?
If anyone discovers that Elysia isn't the unfeeling clone she must pretend to be, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When her one chance at happiness is ripped away with breathtaking cruelty, emotions she's always had but never understood are unleashed. As rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, Elysia must find the will to survive.
So this is the first book in the Annex series and so far it is the only book published. This book though is great. I loved it!
The story was great. Elysia is just a great character well developed and just who she is kind of meant to be really. The wording in this book is just perfect! Like it starts out with Elysia not really feeling anything just stating things, how everything looks, how things are suppose to be how, they work, that kind of thing. Then she slowly adds feeling to her words and it is just perfectly done.
The story was great. Elysia is just a great character well developed and just who she is kind of meant to be really. The wording in this book is just perfect! Like it starts out with Elysia not really feeling anything just stating things, how everything looks, how things are suppose to be how, they work, that kind of thing. Then she slowly adds feeling to her words and it is just perfectly done.
I love how well the setting is described also, like I could actually see it and like you were actually there with the Elysia in this island paradise of Demesne.
I also loved the twists and turns that made this book exciting and great. Also the ending is pretty cool, makes me want to hurry up and jump into the next book. Though this book has set the bar high for the next books. So hopefully they aren't disappointments. Though over all great book, I think.
I also loved the twists and turns that made this book exciting and great. Also the ending is pretty cool, makes me want to hurry up and jump into the next book. Though this book has set the bar high for the next books. So hopefully they aren't disappointments. Though over all great book, I think.
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