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The Similars is an incredible work of young-adult fiction by Rebecca Hanover. The story is set at Darkwood Academy, an elite boarding school in New England. This year, six new students will be attending Darkwood, and they aren’t just any students.
They are the “Similars”, six DNA duplicates (clones, if you will) that all happen to be copies of current Darkwood students. The Similars are all anyone at Darkwood can talk about. Who are they? Why are they here? However, the main character Emma, couldn’t care less about the arrival of these new students. She recently lost her best friend Oliver, and can hardly fathom going through this school year without him. That is until she runs into Levi…Oliver’s exact DNA copy. How does Emma deal with the pain of seeing this Levi in the body of her dead best friend? Although she wants nothing to do with the Similars, she keeps getting pulled further and further into their world…
Loved The Similars? The adventure continues in book 2 of the series, The Pretenders.
Both The Similars and The Pretenders, by Rebecca Hanover are available on the Kindle App and the Apple Books App.