Girl One

368 Pages

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux / MCD

Release Date: June 1, 2021

Josephine “Josie” Morrow is at a university in Chicago researching reproduction systems. She wants to follow in the footsteps of her mentor, Dr Joseph Bellanger. He successfully helped nine women give birth to daughters using their own DNA without any male DNA. Josie sees a news report that her mother’s house had a devastating fire and her mother is missing. She takes a leave from the university and goes home looking for her mother. She finds a few unexplained notes hidden behind a wall clock which begins a search that will change her life.

At first when I started this book, I thought of Orphan Black but in that scenario all the sisters were clones. In this case, the daughters were exact replicas of their mothers. The story is fast paced and written in the third person point of view. The characters are somewhat developed. If you enjoy stories that have unexpected twists, you will like this one. It has everything you could ask for—murder, kidnapping, science fiction, and traveling the country.