Tall, slender, and with her long, dark hair, Sarah is a striking young woman. Intelligent, caring, and physically fit, she is a natural athlete. Her identical sisters, Ellie and Maria, are equally striking in appearance. Ellie is a math prodigy and Maria is one of the most gifted dancers in their region of the galaxy.For this trio of sisters, the future looks bright.Only as clones, their mere … clones, their mere existence is a crime. Property of the SEM Corp, the sister’s entire life has been spent in the lab they were engineered, grown, and birthed in. Being treated like lab animals, constantly tested, and subjected to constant training is not the worse part of their lives.
A simple-minded savant, Maria is subjected to regular sexual abuse by powerful corporate investors and government officials. When the order is given to harvest Maria’s organs, the sisters decide it is time to do more than dream about freedom.
The time has come for them to escape.
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As always,author Sivils presents a full plate of back story,and character development of his Inspector Sullivan novels! For lucky dedicated readers of this series,This is such a treat..Recommended!
The Girl Who Wasn’t There – a review by Rosemary Kenny
Those familiar with K.C.Sivils’ great Thomas Sullivan series, set in Capitol City on the frozen planet of Beta Prime, will also know about illegal fugitive clone Sarah and her ‘sister’ clones, Maria an ‘idiot savant’, (think of Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man) and the manipulative Ellie, the first of the three to be created to order.
Sarah’s backstory is sensitively and perceptively narrated from her point of view, telling how she and the others reacted differently in their enforced imprisonment, before being helped to escape by a sympathetic scientist, using Sarah’s unique traits and abilities.
This fantastic story is a cleverly-written and fascinating glimpse into how Sarah and Sully first meet, then follows her subsequent integration into the church group, run by Father Nathan and other new friends.
It’ll whisk you off to a whole new world, where the Covid-19 pandemic will be the last thing on your mind.
Don’t miss The Girl Who Wasn’t There by K.C. Sivils – whatever else you might read on World Book Day – it’s out of this world!
Clone humans hatched for profit develop and consider a life outside their creator’s lab – 4.5 stars
In an off-world future, clones of people emerge as full-sized adult humans and can be sold at a great profit. The demand for organs, sex workers and expendable fighters is more than sufficient for the corporation that created them.
We follow three clone sisters, Ellie, Sarah and Maria as they mature mentally. They want independence and to avoid ‘bad touching’. Unlike others in their birth bath who were harvested early for their organs, the three sisters stay in the lab for close observation.
The women, bred for beauty, are meaner and smarter than they look. Traits beyond beauty have been developed for specific markets. The growing up phase lasts a few months while the “newborns” are caged, trained, analyzed and classified. Each sister was designed with special features such as computational ability, quick healing and an ability to become invisible.
We follow the sisters’ development as they change from being told what to do to deciding how to proceed. The women are quick studies.
Made in a lab for all the wrong reasons yet human feelings still exist, including the need for freedom. Three sisters with very different personalities. Sarah, the brightest of the three, leads the sisters to freedom with the help of a human who has nothing to lose. Their adventures bring about freedom but what will it cost them? Hunted 24/7. Who is the bad guy and who is the good guy. Will they survive or end up a specimen on a table for dissection? Captures your interest from the first page to the last. Sci-fi at it’s best.
The Girl Who Wasn’t There: Capital City Characters: Episode IV, my first read from author K.C. Sivils, an author I’d wanted to read for some time but never got around to him (so many books, so little time). Well-written and captivating with well-developed main. I was given a Kindle copy and am voluntarily reviewing it. I’ll be reading more by this author as I get them. (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 – July 24, 2018).