What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang

Date Started: 7/2/2013
Date Finished: 16/2/2013
Rating: Five out of Five
Format: Paperback
Series: The Hybrid Chronicles (Book1)
Owned:Yes

Hmmm where do I begin with this book? I guess I should start from when I bought this. I bought this book after seeing someone review this on YouTube and I thought…maybe this would be quite good…and I decided to buy it when I had some spare money…that theory lasted all but five seconds! I was browsing through Waterstones when I saw this book…it was the last book and oh so lonely with no other book by the same author or the same title anywhere near it. I walked nearer to it and I heard a faint noise…”BUY ME” it said to me, I looked around and no one else heard the noise that was now been repeated. I couldn’t let this book down, so I picked it up and gave it a new home knowing full well I would start reading it on the bus home and boy did I not want to put this down.

Starting this book in October, I hoped I could finished it in time for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) that I was participating in the next month. unfortunately it got to the point where I hat do put it down to start my novel. I had only got through a quarter of the book and knew I would go back to it. That didn’t happen. I next picked it up in February and thought to myself that I will get through this book until the very end.

I decided to re-read it and within a week I finished it. This book is the most interesting book I’ve read. It is the first dystopian book I’ve read and it has opened my eyes to the genre.
The novel is about Addie and Eva, hybrids who have not SETTLED. When I say settled I mean the recessive soul in one body hasn’t gone away. Addie and Eva are in the same body but are two different souls. The story is told by Eva, the recessive soul, and she tells us about their past and how they had to move because of the girls.

Addie and Eva meet Hally, another hybrid as well as her brother and they try and get Eva to become more outspoken then she is now. Only problem is the three hybrids, six people if you count all souls, are caught by the government who are trying to capture all hybrids and take them to a psychiatric hospital where they are thrown into scans and tests to prove their status as hybrids. After a few days in the hospital, Addie and eva choose to escape.
The ending to me was a bit of an anti climax as at the beginning of the book I expected the escape to be more climactic than it was.

Kat Zhang wrote in detail of Addie and Eva’s life and the conversations the two souls had brought the book into another dimension. I liked the way the ressesive soul told the story and how Addie added her own bits when needed. I expected some romance in this book and in a way there was…you could see Eva and Ryan (Hally’s brothers recessive soul) connect and how they worked together to escape.

Overall I enjoyed the book as my first dystopian novel and look forward to reading more in the genre.