Rating: 
Summary: Quite the pastiche
Review: There's a lot going on in this novel, as well as the tender love tome that is so poetically told. For those of us keeping up with the current events of the day, we see the issues of cloning are second only to our war on terror. There are agencies set up to stop Cloned humans from inhabiting the earth and politicians from both sides of the aisle are lining up to deliver pro and con filibusters. A line from the novel that addresses this: "Where there is legislation, there is activism; where there is activism, there is impasse and issues reach no decisions, which creates outrage that demands mandates which force ever-vacillating politicians to take a stand." The author has cleverly crafted what he believes the laws for cloning should be; euphemistically referred to as: "The Clonestitution." The novel unfolds in the last half of this century, so the author is able to make a very logical assumption as to how it will be for these people once they are among us. He does not digress from the story when he delves into these issues and gives you the Clone's perspective of what it is like for them in a procreated world and how they are perceived by humanity. My wife read it and found one story and I found another, but we both agree that this novel was sensational. It had just the right blend of love story and social editorial to appeal to the heart and to the mind and it is quite stimulating. P.S. We are neither friends or family of this author, but we are fans, so there goes the theory of the anonymous 1 star Albuquerquian, who should work on his vocabulary before suffering us with further reviews filled with 1st Grade invectives like "Stupid" and "Goofy" which describes his or her review, not this novel.
Rating: 
Summary: It will touch you if you let it.
Review: You sure won't read this book and think "Oh I've read this before" or "This is like that other book." There is nothing like it really. The style and the story is one of a kind. This was a great concept. The characters are very realistic and there are no flights of fancy that leave you thinking "No way that could happen." Their romance is not cliche. Even though the hippy couple and the clone couple are very different, it still seems like one couple and that's what makes you feel for the clones as they struggle with the tontine of love left behind by the hippies. This book is definitely a re-read. There's so much going on in two different time frames yet the book is a fast read. It was very tender and touching without being heavy or mushie and it had a great vision without running on. An excellent read, five stars all the way.
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