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Just boring!
This is a dreadful book: A girl, Iris the clone, whining through 263 pages how bad it is to be a clone. Eventually I just skipped huge parts of the book because it was just more of the same. To top it all off: Finally she finds some individuality by meeting Mr. Right. The least I had hoped for was the resolution, that it is not ALL in the genes, but no, not in this book.

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terrific philosophical science fiction
Elizabeth Surrey told her daughter Iris that she once was a big shot Manhattan investment consultant, but burned out over the lies required to climb the ladder and over a city that was turning uglier by the nanosecond. Thus she quit and fled to this small college town near Chicago looking to start over. What she didn't tell Elizabeth was much about her daddy and that the child is a clone of the mother.

The twosome is best buddies, but relationships change in 2017 when Steven enters their lives. Elizabeth and Steven fall in love, but he cannot deal with what he feels is the abnormal relationship between his beloved and her twelve year old daughter. A confused Iris begins to learn more about her birthing and decides to leave home to investigate whether she has a soul of her own or just an extension of Elizabeth as she now knows she is her mother's clone.

THE SECRET will not be kept a secret for long as readers will receive a terrific philosophical science fiction tale that keeps the audience pondering questions of ethics and morality in modern science. The novel is no sound byte pandering by the political leaders, but instead is a deep first person account of a young individual wondering whether she has a soul, did her mother steal her soul, or did her mother give her part or all of her soul. Can she go to heaven? Fans will debate these issues and more while thinking of Phillip K. Dick (though Eva Hoffman's book contains no violence) especially DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP as one wonders whether Iris is Memorex or real.

Harriet Klausner

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the secret is to figure out why anyone reads this book
i will be honest and tell you i couldn't finish the book. and it's not long - it just was not worth it. the "secret" is obvious from the first page and it is pure drivel as you plod through the first half of the book with the heroine as she tries to figure it out.

so maybe there is another gem of a secret in the second half of the book that i don't find out because i never finished it. but given the first half of the book, i can't imagine there is enough to create a multi-layered secret.

the philosophic premise of the book is so flawed from the outset (that clones are EXACT replicas - physically, emotionally, intelligently, etc. to the point that they essentially repeat "history") that it makes the rest of the book predictable and boring. it is too bad because the premise and the original question have great potential to be fascinating.