The Hybrid Chronicles #2
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published September 17, 2013
Hardcover, 352 pages
Overview:
Eva was never supposed to have survived this long. As the recessive soul, she should have faded away years ago. Instead, she lingers in the body she shares with her sister soul, Addie. When the government discovered the truth, they tried to “cure” the girls, but Eva and Addie escaped before the doctors could strip Eva’s soul away.Now fugitives, Eva and Addie find shelter with a group of hybrids who run an underground resistance. Surrounded by others like them, the girls learn how to temporarily disappear to give each soul some much-needed privacy. Eva is thrilled at the chance to be alone with Ryan, the boy she’s falling for, but troubled by the growing chasm between her and Addie. Despite clashes over their shared body, both girls are eager to join the rebellion.
Yet as they are drawn deeper into the escalating violence, they start to wonder: How far are they willing to go to fight for hybrid freedom? Faced with uncertainty and incredible danger, their answers may tear them apart forever.
Review:
Once We Were by Kat Zhang continues the story of hybrids Eva and Addie, twin souls sharing a body in a unique world where people are born with two souls but only one is expected to reach adulthood.
What I loved so much about What's Left of Me was the concept--a world two souls are born into one body, and one (the weaker, "recessive" soul) gradually fades out, usually before reaching adolescence. The hybrids (people whose recessive souls haven't faded out) are seen as a threat to the rest of society, and the government has been working to find and remove these extra souls who haven't settled.
Once We Were starts off shortly after the events in What's Left of Me--Eva and Addie have escaped the mental hospital Nornand with a few other hybrid children and are living hidden with other hybrids. While What's Left of Me focuses on Eva, the recessive soul, grappling with the possibility of existing and relearning how to use her shared body (for the past few years, she's only been able to watch, immobile, as her twin soul Addie lives), Once We Were focuses on the rebel group of hybrids as they plot to stop the government from further harming other hybrids.
Compared to the fast-paced action of What's Left of Me, the second book in this series takes longer to develop, as the rebels spend months deciding on and perfecting their counterattack on the government. Much of the book feels like it's leading up to events in the next book, and while I didn't enjoy Once We Were as much as the first book, I'm excited to see how the story continues in the third and final book.
Once We Were starts off shortly after the events in What's Left of Me--Eva and Addie have escaped the mental hospital Nornand with a few other hybrid children and are living hidden with other hybrids. While What's Left of Me focuses on Eva, the recessive soul, grappling with the possibility of existing and relearning how to use her shared body (for the past few years, she's only been able to watch, immobile, as her twin soul Addie lives), Once We Were focuses on the rebel group of hybrids as they plot to stop the government from further harming other hybrids.
Compared to the fast-paced action of What's Left of Me, the second book in this series takes longer to develop, as the rebels spend months deciding on and perfecting their counterattack on the government. Much of the book feels like it's leading up to events in the next book, and while I didn't enjoy Once We Were as much as the first book, I'm excited to see how the story continues in the third and final book.
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