Gordon Dahlquist

Sharing synchronized days of work and education on a desert island of the near future, Veronika, Caroline, Isobel and Eleanor, four girls who are identical in every way except for their hair color, encounter a lone shipwreck survivor named May—a very different kind of girl—who compels them to question everything about their existence.

The Different Girl

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Was that what death meant—no answers, a finally locked door? As my foot touched the floor I decided what was wrong, because death always left a why, and a how, and a what next. Questions weren’t the same as answers—they didn’t tell me this dead girls name—but for her sake I wasn’t going to let them go.

Why did we know the things we did? When did the knowing settle in, like a circling bird to the earth? 

She stood in the center of a spinning globe, transfixed and taking refuge in the patterns.

I almost understood—because we learned by adding one thing to another thing to make a third we hadn’t known before—except May didn’t add things the way we did. She felt them, like the weight of an object in the dark of a pocket, hidden but still at hand. 
That was May’s everything. That was May’s heart.

Now her part of any conversation would be left unsaid, and any direction she would have gone walking would always be empty. Her absence extended in lines of numbers made up of smoke, backward in memory ad forward in futures never to occur.

LOTS of good quotes in this book. Unfortunately, all of those quotes occurred in the last 20 or so pages of the book.
I mean, this book was alright. It was sort of sci-fi, but not really, because the sci-fi elements weren’t center to the story, nor were they really explained. This book was about people and how people to the same things in different ways. It’s about questions and answers and that there’s not an answer to every question.
The characters—were a little flat. Most of them were robots, true, but still. 
The plot was very minimal. 
The world was hardly explained.
Normally, that would earn a book a great big F. But, for this book, I think that was sort of the point, so I’ll let it slide.
This book made a point. It was interesting, but not very exciting.

Jeannette Ordas

The story about robot girls hidden away on an island starts off well, but the ending is a total let down. There is apparently a lot going on in the world outside of the island and we only get little peeps and glimmers which is pretty lame since the outside world does make a big impact on the island life. How could something that started off so promising be such a letdown? Bummer. 2.5 stars.

The Different Girl

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