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Summary: Crash and Burn
Review: After reading this book, I immediately told my mom not to read beyond book two. I was twelve when I started reading and am now fifteen...Marilyn Kaye's ending was atrocious. The entire, miraculous three pages she spent to end the tale probably took about twenty seconds. Characters who didn't even BELONG in these books (including Adrian Peele), somehow managed just for the sake of wrapping the book up as quickly as possible. If you're currently reading the series, my advice is to stop now before you get disappointed.
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Summary: The series is great, don't get me wrong.
Review: But this book...it just....how should I put it, sucked! The plot was poor, the ending unbelievable, even for a Replica book. Please don't misunderstand me, I love the Replica books, just not this one. Don't waste your money folks.
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Summary: The series is great, don't get me wrong.
Review: But this book...it just....how should I put it, sucked! The plot was poor, the ending unbelievable, even for a Replica book. Please don't misunderstand me, I love the Replica books, just not this one. Don't waste your money folks.
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Summary: What an unbelieveable ending to a great series.
Review: i cant believe that such a good author would write such a terrible ending to this series. I own and have read all 24 books and the plague trilogy and I loved them all. I would not be able to put them down.... I always thought that if Marilyn Kaye did decide to end the series that she would end with something that would make you wonder or keep you hanging on or something!!!!!!!!!! I mean, come on already it was realistic until the end.
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Summary: Terrible Ending to Okay Series
Review: I started reading Replica in seventh grade, and I'm now a high school junior. For awhile I was reading the books because I genuinly enjoyed them, then I kept reading them because, even though I was outgrowing them, I wanted to finish what I started. As time went on, I became more and more dissapponted as Kaye pulled stranger and stranger plots out of the air that had no basis in actual science or even good science fiction. going into the past? chromosomes? the future? the plague trilogy I thought had to be the absolute worst of it, but unfortunatly I was wrong. When I read the last book, the first thing that struck me was the timing. Amy's supposed to be two years older, but she's only almost fourteen, and she got the powers when she turned twelve. She was also for some reason in ninth grade (but still in middle school?). From what I can recall, everyone in ninth grade when I was there was either fourteen or fifteen, and since Amy was about to enter tenth grade, she really should have been fifteen or sixteen. Would it really have been so outlandish for Marilyn Kaye to have her age properly, instead of continuing one of the most annoying tradition of young adult literature? I can still remember how insane I was driven by the fact that no matter how many Babysitter's Club books I read, they were always in eighth grade. Kaye was actually building to a good, genuine ending to the series, with Amy finally realizing that her abilities don't make her a freak or strange, they're just who she IS. Then Kaye has to completly and utterly derail what had up to this point been an overall good series. The ending was unrealistic and I still am very dissapointed that Marilyn could let down her long-time readers (like me) down like that, and I wish that she would recall this book, apologize, and sit down and actually write a good and proper and FITTING ending to a series that deserves much better.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: I started reading the Replica series in seventh grade, and I have now finished Amy, on Her Own, presumably the last book in the series. I can honestly say that this book is HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE and is quite possibly the worst thing I've ever read in my life. Amy can FLY? How lame is that? Kaye's books were very good and interesting for maybe the first 10, 15 or so. But when the Plague trilogy started, you could tell she was only doing this to get money. How ridiculous was that trilogy? Back to the last book, I can't get over how awful it was! If you haven't read it yet, don't read it at all, it's a complete waste of money and time. I picked 1 star because that's the lowest possible rating. If it were an option, I would have given it negative stars.
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Summary: A Terrible Waste of Time and Talent
Review: I've enjoyed reading the whole series along with my daughter over the past few years. We'd get each book as it came out; she'd read it first and then I'd read it and then it was fun to talk about the new book. But as the series went on, or I should say dragged on, the plots turned from compelling to silly, and our interests waned. Still, we kept up and wanted to see it to the end. We did, and we're sorry that a talented author wasted her gifts and our time.The series actually could have had a satisfying ending after book 23, when The Organization was defeated. But Ms. Kaye apparently wanted to have a personal ending for Amy. That's all well and good. In fact, the book started out well enough, with Amy's talents disappearing, and there was some fine and meaningful discussion about how things that come too easily don't have much value. Ms. Kaye had an opportunity to produce a fine ending with a real message, but she completely blew it. In fact, Amy's character, as developed all through the series, was completely undermined and destroyed. Instead of the good, ethical, and unselfish heroine of the rest of the series, Amy ends up as vain, conceited, self-centered, egotistical, and, well, not a very nice person. Ms. Kaye utterly trashed Amy as a worthy protagonist. Can this be what her readers wanted? I doubt it. And, Amy going off to be a flying superhero, working out of a Florida hotel? What could Ms. Kaye have possibly been thinking? Do yourself a favor. Stop after book 23. It's a satisfying end point, and you won't completely ruin your entire experience with this series. If you read book 24, you will be sorry you ever read even one of these books.
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Summary: A Terrible Waste of Time and Talent
Review: I've enjoyed reading the whole series along with my daughter over the past few years. We'd get each book as it came out; she'd read it first and then I'd read it and then it was fun to talk about the new book. But as the series went on, or I should say dragged on, the plots turned from compelling to silly, and our interests waned. Still, we kept up and wanted to see it to the end. We did, and we're sorry that a talented author wasted her gifts and our time. The series actually could have had a satisfying ending after book 23, when The Organization was defeated. But Ms. Kaye apparently wanted to have a personal ending for Amy. That's all well and good. In fact, the book started out well enough, with Amy's talents disappearing, and there was some fine and meaningful discussion about how things that come too easily don't have much value. Ms. Kaye had an opportunity to produce a fine ending with a real message, but she completely blew it. In fact, Amy's character, as developed all through the series, was completely undermined and destroyed. Instead of the good, ethical, and unselfish heroine of the rest of the series, Amy ends up as vain, conceited, self-centered, egotistical, and, well, not a very nice person. Ms. Kaye utterly trashed Amy as a worthy protagonist. Can this be what her readers wanted? I doubt it. And, Amy going off to be a flying superhero, working out of a Florida hotel? What could Ms. Kaye have possibly been thinking? Do yourself a favor. Stop after book 23. It's a satisfying end point, and you won't completely ruin your entire experience with this series. If you read book 24, you will be sorry you ever read even one of these books.
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Summary: What's your problem Marilyn Kaye?!??
Review: NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER read the 24th book!!
If I could have written this book, Amy would have married Eric or Andy, she wouldn't be able to FLY, and she would stay in contact with all the other clones who still have their powers. But, NO! Marilyn Kaye HAD TO end it horribly! WHY?
The whole series was terrific until this point.
A word of warning: DON'T READ THIS BOOK!
Thank-you. If you agree with me, tell me in an e-mail.
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Summary: Oh cmon!
Review: Ok everyone is complaining about the ending, but what about the rest of the book? Didnt that mean just a little bit to you? In my personal opinion this book was good! The ending was just kinda wierd. I have loved this series since i was 11 and i am not giving up my love for it just because of one silly little ending. I still reccomend this book to anyone who would actually look at the book for its character, not to its obviousness.
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