Book Review: Vitro

I fell in love with the writing of Jessica Khoury when I read Origin last year.  She captures Science Fiction and conspiracies perfectly, and Vitro is no exception.

Vitro

Jessica Khoury

From Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17617762-vitro?from_search=true

On a remote island in the Pacific, Corpus scientists have taken test tube embryos and given them life. These beings—the Vitros—have knowledge and abilities most humans can only dream of. But they also have one enormous flaw.

Sophie Crue is determined to get to Skin Island and find her mother, a scientist who left Sophie behind years ago. With the help of Jim Julien, a young charter pilot, she arrives--and discovers a terrifying secret she never imagined: she has a Vitro twin, Lux, who is the culmination of Corpus's dangerous research.

Now Sophie is torn between reuniting with the mother who betrayed her and protecting the genetically enhanced twin she never knew existed. But untangling the twisted strands of these relationships will have to wait, for Sophie and Jim are about to find out what happens when science stretches too far beyond its reach.

 Let me start off by saying, I did not stop reading this book except to go to the bathroom and sleep...though I stayed up until 3am reading, and I was able to eat while reading!

Jessica Khoury is a great YA author for a few reasons: she is NOT a cookie cutter author--sure there is a love story, and good vs. evil, but she knows her science.  She knows her plot. She knows her characters.  She doesn't say "Hey! Teens love werewolves, let's write a book about them!" No.  She works outside the box to create a REAL story with depth.  There are secrets and betrayals that you may not even see coming.

Vitro works with teens as science experiments--where adults think they know what they are doing, all the while, not taking into account that these teens are real people. There is a good deal of Science "mumbo-jumbo" but Khoury explains it in terms that teens can completely understand, and can even use that information to solve the real conspiracy before the end of the book.

I have yet to buy these books for MCPL...I had to go to Goshen...but they are on my cart and should be here momentarily!

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