★★★☆☆ The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, by Cameron Reed
Dystopian love story
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For
Cameron Reed
Dystopian love story
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The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For is a love story. It takes place in a future dystopia, in which corporations rule the world (more overtly than they now do). There is cloning in this Brave New World, and custom bodies, and mind transfer from body to body. Of course, things go wrong and it turns into an adventure.
I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. Three stars seems fair.