Alpha BETA Charlie Delta!!!

Ooo!  Cloning!  Something that thoroughly intrigues me in YA Lit.  Especially when the authors don't really have a good explanation for how it works so they just gloss over that part and dive right into all the meaty, cloney goodness.  Beta by Rachel Cohn was definitely a worthwhile addition to the cloning literature world.  I enjoyed the world within the world that Cohn created and completely believe that humans, in general, are arrogant and selfish enough to create an entire population of individuals with no rights to serve them day in and day out.  We can't have slaves? Let's get clones!  You know from the start, of course, that something is different about Elysia (seriously, that's her name) and you kind of figure she'll be a headliner for Clones Gone Wild, but the story execution was very well done. Kudos to the author.  There were enough twists and turns to make it all so interesting and definitely set up enough meat for a sequel, which some YA books lack and bank only on a superficial cliffhanger.  It gets 5 out of 5 strawberry shakes and I look forward to reading the next installment!