Dom feels so guilty that, he thinks he ought to let the police know the hole story. They have a shouting row, and, at the end of it, as they are on the ledge of a mountain, they accidently thow themselves to their death. As Dom thinks he is defeated, Imogen turns up and snatches the journalist's phone away from her. As Dom trys to hide on a cliff ledge, the reporter follows him and threatens to tell the newspaper about this. As Dom heads out to find her, he is cornered by a journalist, who knew his brother Nick and has suspected something fishey. In one last frantic surge he runs away again up to Scotland to meet Giles and Becky, who only want whats best for him.Īfter a couple of weeks living with Baecky and Giles, Dom gets a mysterious call from Imogen, telling him that he is in danger and he needs to meet her urgently. Suddenly, out of the blue, his evil father turns up and tells him he's taking him to Australia. Felling lost and emotionless, Dom plans to go up to Scotland with Giles and Becky. Imogen knows that if this comes out in the press she will be executed. He was only made to keep the memorys of the long dead Nick (his brothers nick-name) alive. Basiccly, he is living inside his brothers dead body. They had employed Imogen to clone the dead Dominic to make the Dominic that lives today. His Mum and Dad could not come to terms with their perfect son's death. But then, Imogen turns up and when Dom questions her about the baby, the real truth comes out. With a desperate surge he called Giles and he met him at Cambridge Uni. she had been on holiday with his parents just before Dominic was born. 'Why did your baby have to turn up now?' That solved it. Later on, as Dominic gets up to get a glass of water, he overhears them talking. Imogen (Professer Holt) lets him come back to her house with her and her husband and lets him selep there the night. She is the worlds greatest scientist, and so was his brother. Unable to come to terms with himself, he meets his brothers Tutor, Professer Holt. There he meets his brother's best friend, Giles and his wife, Becky, who was once his brother (also called Domonic's) girlfriend. And his life is changed forever.Ī few days later he is on a train heading to Cambridge Univercity, where he has found out it is where his brother studied and died. Then the word 'Brother' flickers across his mind. Thats what he thinks, until he turns the last page and finds himself 5 years older than he acctually is. Whilst Painting at his Grandad's house he discovers an old family photo album, with pictures of him inside. I loved his ramblings and his occasional insane nonsense that he would spurt out like near the end of the book when he's rushing through the house and shouts "fish balls", he's a bit of light entertainment in an otherwise serious young-adult novel.ĭefinitely interesting and enjoyable on the whole, I might have a look at some of the author's other writings.ĭominic Gorden's life suddenly takes a shocking turn. The point seemed rather void to me when Dominic didn't have much of a personality - isn't that ruining the whole moral of the story? The author was trying to say something about individualism in this novel and make Dominic (2) a unique person that could shine apart from his brother without turning into a psychological as well as a biological clone. You'd have to be an idiot not to guess what was going on.Īs for Dominic, I felt sorry for him on occasion but, overall, I found him quite a boring and uninventive character. However, the author spent the first half of the book trying to create some mystery around the circumstances of Dominic's secret brother's life and death, this would have been fine if the book wasn't called 'unique' and the protagonist hadn't already found a photo album with pictures of a boy who looked exactly like him but was supposedly just his brother who died in the year before he was born. I liked the ethical questions about scientific advances and the different philosophical viewpoints of the religious and the non-believers, some were nothing like what we would expect them to be. This wasn't bad at all, quite an easy enjoyable read and fairly typical of what you'd expect from a young adult science fiction story.
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