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Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock | Maud Woolf
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A washed up star creates a clone tasked with eliminating other clones of herself; a whip-smart and thrilling sci-fi read that's perfect for fans of Orphan Black, Killing Eve and Keeping it Real by Justina Robson. Her purpose is to track down and eliminate her predecessors. Simple, right? In the glitz and glamour of Bubble City even a washed-up film star simply has too much to do, too many places to be. Thank heavens for clones. Lulabelle Rock has twelve, doing the tiresome celebrity rounds. But times have changed: you can have too much of a good thing. And time is up for the twelve Lulabelles. A thirteenth clone, an assassin is created. Killing yourselves should be easy. Were talking clones, not people; its not murder. Not really. But love has a way of complicating things An addictively enthralling SF thriller with razor sharp prose, cinematic scenes and a surprisingly tender exploration of the highs an lows of life and finding love. Nils Shukla, Fantasy Hive File Under: Science Fiction [ Blade Runner Barbie | Time to Kill | All of Me | Tarot Reading ]
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Mehso-so

Film star Lulabelle Rock had 12 clones of herself made: each one fulfilling a different role in public. Now, to generate some publicity for her latest film, she creates one more & this 13th clone also has a specific task - to eliminate all the other Lulabelle clones. No. 13 heads to Bubble City & starts her task, but as she starts to work her way through the list, she begins to wonder if there's more to life than being an assassin. (continued)

OutsmartYourShelf All the ingredients were there: clones (I loved Orphan Black), the fame angle, the question of what truly makes a person unique & what constitutes life, but unfortunately this just didn't work for me. The clone aspect was intriguing, I liked the fact that the only way to really tell a clone apart from the real thing was that they didn't have lines on their palms but that this could be done via surgery. Hmm could make things tricky. 4mo
OutsmartYourShelf Also the whole concept of the killing of an original by a clone being classed as murder, but the original killing their clones is acceptable. They are viewed as the property of the original & therefore can be disposed of. Plus there's the whole falling in love with another clone. Morality minefield! Overall though it was all very surface-skimming & not as dark as it could have been. 3⭐

4mo
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Librarybelle Awesome! A 2024! 4mo
DieAReader 🥳Off #MountTBR👋🏻 4mo
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 4mo
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