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Adaptation Hardcover – September 18, 2012

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	Ash	Huntress	Adaptation	Inheritance	Natural Selection
Welcome to the beautifully haunting and thrilling world of Malinda Lo!	Hauntingly romantic lesbian retelling of Cinderella beautifully unfolds the connections between life and love, and solitude and death.	This exciting adventure prequel to Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details and is filled with action and romance.	Reese can't remember anything from the accident up until she woke up a month later. But she does know one thing: She's different now.	Thoughtful exploration of adolescence, identity, and "the other" in Adaptation's impossible to put down sequel.	This novella takes readers on a trip through Amber's past and gives a deeper look into one of Adaptation's most compelling characters.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1st edition (September 18, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316197963
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316197960
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 15 years and up
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ HL790L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 10 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches

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Malinda Lo is the bestselling author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, winner of the National Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, as well as Michael L. Printz and Walter Dean Myers honors. Her debut novel Ash, a Sapphic retelling of Cinderella, was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award and the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the Lambda Literary Award. She can be found on social media @malindalo or at malindalo.com.

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Fins1997

enjoyable

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2022

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I was really surprised on where this book went to and how it ended. Lots and lots of conspiracy theories.

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Wiredferret

This one time at speech tournament.... and then the aliens came.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2012

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I think the best part of this book is how sharply observed it is. It made me homesick for San Francisco, for the fog and Dolores Park and cafes and loud murky bars with poetic bathroom graffiti. I was delighted that someone else has been to the universal slavic bra-fitting lady:

"Reese wore plain, taupe-colored bras selected by the gray-haired bra-fitting lady at Nordstrom, who had a measuring tape slung around her neck and came into the fitting room with her to prod her breasts into proper formation. "Enjoy it while you're young!" she would say in her dry, slightly accented voice. Reese always thought she must be Russian"

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"Amber smelled like cupcakes, and long after she had waved and headed off in the opposite direction, the scent lingered in Reese's memory: buttercream and the sweetness of sugar."

Reese is a highschooler very convincingly. She has a crush on her debate partner, but doesn't want to mess with a good thing, no matter how attractive he is. The book opens while she is travelling back from a national speech tournament that she feels like she flubbed. She wears ringer tees and jeans and Converse and worries about taking the car and is attached to her phone. Even her explorations with making out seem both age-appropriate and well-described, from what I can remember of my distant misty past.

It's also kind of hilarious at times, partially because of the accute detail observation.
"She grinned at Reese's expression. "What? I grew up in San Francisco. You don't think I've ever kissed a girl?"
Reese's mouth dropped open. "So," her mom continued, "is she your girlfriend?"
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"Are you sleeping together?"
"Jesus Christ--"
"The lord isn't going to help you with this, honey. Are you using protection?"

(the maybe-girlfriend in question is a lesbian manic pixie dream-girl. She has pink hair and wears candy-flavored lip gloss and is An Older Woman by a whole year, and I thought she was sort of charming. Also she's pretty good at taking no for an answer, although not perfect.)

haha, Reese, guess what? Your mom, she is a person, too. And also apparently bisexual. Not the BEST coming-out story I've ever read, but it made me giggle.

I loved the roles of women in this book. Reese's mom is an ADA. Amber's mom is a high-powered scientist. The president is a woman, and not an entirely good person.

The less-strong part of the book was the conspiracy plotting. I suspect that that's because we were establishing the groundwork for more books in the series, but they're not out yet. So we are left with a lot of area 51 and Men in Black and alien DNA and kidnapping. It's kind of scary, but also maybe a little hokey. However, I have faith that Lo is going to do some interesting investigations. That's the cliffhanger.

Read if: You like reading about young love, government conspiracies, and aliens. Also if you love San Francisco.

Skip if: You would get in trouble for reading a book about a bisexual teen. You are not comfortable not-knowing stuff for a bunch of the book (David and Reese are going through some Things, but it takes a while to figure out what).

Also read:
Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy) for the ultimate teenagers and conspiracy book. (Warning: SUPER SCARY)
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (New Edition) for possibly the ultimate Manic Pixie Dreamgirl.

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A good beginning to a satisfying sci-fi duology

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Reese Holloway and David Li are on their way home from a debate competition when things start to go really wrong. Like, they wake up in a military hospital a month later wrong. When they wake up, they aren't the same as they were. For one thing, they can read minds.

I never quite got into Malinda Lo's first two books, even though I'd been especially excited by ASH, since I love fairytale retellings. I found her style a bit stiff and cold. They were good enough, but nothing I was over the moon about. ADAPTATION, on the other hand, sucked me in and forced me to go to the library and borrow a copy of INHERITANCE so that I could read it immediately.

ADAPTATION is a science fiction novel with some thriller and romance elements. Like many other science fiction novels, it is preoccupied with what makes us human. Unlike many science fiction novels, Reese is also questioning her identity because she falls for a girl. (Although Reese dates both David and Amber in the book, there is no cheating. One relationship clearly ends before another begins.) It's a lovely mishmash between the philosophy of reality and of the imagination. But it's not ponderous - there's lots of crazy, creepy stuff happening, including stalking by men in black.

A highlight for me, in both books, were Reese and David's family and friends. Something strange has happened to them, but they have a loving, fierce support group backing them up. Reese's mom might be one of my favorite parents in YA fiction. Lo does a great job of showing that competent adults don't have to ruin the plot of a teen-oriented book.

If you're into science fiction, I highly recommend ADAPTATION and INHERITANCE. I would say more about specific sci-fi elements that might entice you, but I'm afraid to give anything away. Lo doesn't employ the most shocking twists, but it's still a fun journey. (Side note: I thoroughly enjoyed how the love triangle resolved in INHERITANCE.)

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4 Stars and High Hopes for Book 2

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 11, 2018

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This book really surprised me. It wasn't at all what I expected, but in a good way.

I really liked Reese as a main character. She was flawed and had a lot of complex feelings to deal with - on top of being thrust into a series of very surreal and extreme situations. And in discovering that she might not be as straight as she thought she was and you get a very, VERY intersting cocktail of feelings, developments and problems.

I really enjoyed the twists and turns this story took, including some of the more... far-fetched(?) issues with governments, military, law enforcement and extraterrestrials. The pacing was different in a unique way, but made for a good mix of quiet typical teenage moments and extreme action, some violence and a lot of suspense. There might have been some plot holes here and there that I would've liked to be resolved and explained more, or handled differently, but they never took away too much from my enjoyment of the story.

The only thing that actually bugged me was the implication of bi = binary, and the repeated "there are only boys and girls" remarks. I'd say this is something to look out for and be aware of, although considering when the book was published, I kind of expected it a bit.

All in all a very enjoyable read. I'm a bit on the fence about the romantic developments, but I'm hoping for more satisfying resolutions in the second book. And I'm really hoping I'll get to known David better - because that was one thing I missed in this first book. 4.5 stars rounded down to 4 and really high hopes for book two from me.

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Milka

Juste énorme et additif !!!

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on August 14, 2016

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J’avais ce livre depuis pas longtemps en ma possession, mais le résumé me donnait tellement envie, alors ce livre est vite atterri dans mes mains et n’a pas été posé une seconde, car oui, j’ai lu ce livre d’une traite !!!

Dans ce livre nous allons principalement suivre l’histoire de Reese. Elle se trouve à l’aéroport avec son ami David et leur prof de débat car il rentre d’un concours de débat. Alors qu’ils veulent rentrer chez eux, des oiseaux commencent à perturber le trafic aérien et par malchance, les avions tombent du ciel comme des mouches. Les trois décident donc de prendre la route. Alors qu’ils roulent, un oiseau percute leur voiture… Entre le moment où l’oiseau percute la voiture et Reese se réveille, la jeune fille ne se souvient de rien. Elle va donc vouloir savoir ce qu’on lui a fait car elle a d’étranges cicatrices sur le corps…

On va d’abord parler de l’intrigue qui m’a fasciné du début à la fin !!! C’est vrai que les choses mettent longtemps à démarrer, mais grâce à la plume de l’auteure, les évènements passent crème. Dans ce livre il est question de la zone 51, la zone consacrée aux extraterrestres qui n’est pas censée exciter. Dans Adaptation, il est toujours question de conspiration contre le gouvernement, de mensonges, de secrets… Enfin bref, question mystère, c’est génial !!!

Parlons maintenant des personnages. J’ai trouvé le personnage de Reese sympathique, mais peut-être un peu trop timide à mon goût. Mais je lui pardonne car elle se questionne beaucoup et se demande bien ce qui a bien pu lui arriver. Nous avons aussi David, mais lui n’est qu’un « personnage secondaire », dans le sens qu’il est là, mais sans vraiment être là. Mais il répondra toujours présent si Reese à besoin de lui. J’ai trouvé leur amitié simple et complexe à la fois. Je vais vous expliquer ça dans le prochain paragraphe. Nous allons aussi faire la connaissance d’Amber. Dès le départ j’ai eu du mal avec elle. Elle était toujours là au bon moment. Ce que je n’ai pas apprécié c’est que Reese ait une confiance aveugle en elle alors qu’elles ne se connaissaient que depuis quelques jours… Mais à la fin le comportement d’Amber s’explique mais je ne sais toujours pas si je devrais la croire.

Je vais ensuite parler de quelque chose que j’ai trouvé très intéressant dans ce livre. Dans ce livre, Reese va faire la connaissance d’Amber, une fille haute en couleur ! Les deux vont tout de suite s’entendre et les choses iront un peu plus loin entre elles, car oui, les deux vont tomber amoureuses l’une de l’autre. Mais d’un autre côté, Reese pense toujours à David, son meilleur ami, pour lequel elle a peut-être des sentiments. Ce que j’ai trouvé intéressant c’est que l’auteur joue avec les sujets dits « un peu tabous ». Le sujet LGBTQA+ est clairement discuté. Ce que j’ai trouvé intéressant ce que l’auteure n’a pas peur et en parle librement. Ce que j’ai beaucoup aimé ce que l’on mélange ce sujet à la science-fiction, car on n’a pas l’habitude de voir ce genre de choses dans ce type de livres.

En clair. J’ai adoré ce livre. Tout était parfait pour moi, tout m’a plu. C’est même un coup de cœur ! Si vraiment ce livre vous intrigue, lisez-le. L’anglais n’est pas difficile à comprendre, ce livre est accessible à tout le monde !!! Mais il y a quand même un truc que je me demande… Que va-t-il se passer dans le second tome ?!?!?!

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Jamie D Jeans

A Disappointment

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 1, 2017

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While I was intrigued by the set up and lead along by Malinda's wonderful writing style, the deceptive alien lesbian and the lack of character on the part of David Li ultimately undermined the story to the point where I could no longer enjoy it. Sadly, I will not be buying the sequel.

Gwen Rowe

Unpredictable

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 29, 2013

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I was never really sure where this was going, which for the most part was a good thing. I found the ending a bit disappointing, but of course the idea is to read the next one.

Isa

Interesting story

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on August 28, 2017

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I've read both books (I don't remember the other title), it has an interesting story and I enjoyed reading it. Get yourself a free sample and be the judge.

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