Perfect A Genesis Trilogy Book #1
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Lisa's Lair Publishing
May 2, 2022
Kindle
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Amazon
Juliet Huff’s life depends on it.
She’s never been outside, had friends over, or attended school. She’s also never had a cold, a bruise, or a scrape.
Her parents are researchers, part of the secretive Genesis Foundation, and they have one goal. Utopia. No one will ever lose another child to disease or birth defects. They’ll achieve their goal through cloning perfect children. In order to attract funding, any imperfect subjects are terminated.
As she nears her eighteenth birthday, she discovers she will become the first Genesis child to reach this milestone and will be “preserved” as a permanent record of their work unless she can break free.
But Juliet has a secret. She met someone from the outside world once, the boy from across the street. Escaping her house, she finds Bill Manning all grown up, but time is running out and she must expose the Genesis Foundation…
Because she’ll never be perfect again.
Review by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Juliet Huff lives her life confined to her home; no friends checked every morning for any blemishes that could make her not perfect. She sleeps with gloves and has her feet covered for fear she will scratch herself and in that house something as simple as a scratch or pimple would be a death sentence. Her parents are researchers for a secret organization called the Genesis Foundation whose purpose is to clone perfect children with the goal that no child will ever suffer from illnesses and Juliet has never been sick, never had a simple scratch she knew what the result of any of those things would be.
She witnessed one child after another dying and now she has her sister Julie who is 8 to keep her company and who like Juliet is perfect. At the age of nine she Juliet dared to open the back door to say hello to the boy who lives across the street, a boy who had something she desperately wanted; a life. As she grew older, she was determined to discover what her parents were going to do when she turned eighteen which was soon coming up. Sneaking into her dad’s lab she discovers his journal and a note detailing the ceremony when she turns eighteen, a ceremony that would have her die and be entombed in a class coffin. She will be preserved as the only clone to live to eighteen.
So many children died because they had diaper rash, or a pimple and Juliet knew about seven but there were many more she was unaware of. Her first priority is to get out and take Julie-8 with her but the house is locked up tight. She had no idea what she would do if she escaped but she knew for sure that she was going to die if she stayed. With her sister in tow Juliet manages to get out only to nearly be run down by a truck, a truck belonging to the boy she met when she was nine, Billy Manning. Shocked to see the bruises on Juliet and listening to her story he knows he will do whatever he can to keep her and her sister safe.
Will calls on his two best friends for help with the hope of finding information that could bring down the organization whose desire for perfection leaves a trail of dead bodies. The search reveals information that would bring all of them to a point of disbelief but now they know that their lives as well as the girls are in danger. The more information they gather the more comes to light.
This book had the wow factor because it kept me glued from page one to the end. Suspense, lies, betrayals, secrets and amazing characters. My only complaint is that I have wait for more.