Early Review: Dualed by Elsie Chapman

Dualed

Author: Elsie Chapman

Publisher: Random House, 2013

Genre: YA Dystopia

Buy: Amazon ♥ B&N ♥ TBD

Overview

The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate—a twin raised by another family—and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage—life.

Fifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. But then a tragic misstep shakes West’s confidence. Stricken with grief and guilt, she’s no longer certain that she’s the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running not only from her Alt, but also from love . . . though both have the power to destroy her.

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With All My Soul

Rachel Vincent

March 19 2013

Goodreads:

What does it mean when your school is voted the most dangerous in America?

It's time to kick some hellion butt...

After not really surviving her junior year (after all, she did die), Kaylee Cavanaugh has vowed to take back her school from the hellions causing all the trouble. She's going to the find a way to turn the incarnations of Avarice, Envy and Vanity and the rest on each other. And so she–and her gang–make plans to protect her friends and finish this war, once and forever.

But then she meets Wrath. And Kaylee realizes that she's closer to the edge than she's ever been. Especially when one more person she loves is taken...

Why am I waiting for it?

I can’t believe it’s the end of this series. I know it’ll be all kinds of heartbreaking but still awesome and memorable. They MUST make a box set of the series then, and I will so buy it!

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Dualed
by Elsie Chapman

~Chord and West~

          “You’re not weak, West. You’ve always been a fighter, for as long as I’ve known you. Since we were little kids. You’re like…I don’t know…a bulldog refusing to let go.”

          “A bulldog.”

          “Well, yeah. You’ve always been so stubborn.”