![]() Part of growing up is deciding who you are and what do you want. Can Frey trust him with the truth and risk becoming her own person? But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. When her father sends Frey in Rafi’s place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect imposter. Her only purpose is to protect her sister – to sacrifice herself if she must. While Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. But Frey’s very existence is a secret.įrey is Rafi’s twin sister - and her body double. ![]() ![]() NB – this story is set in the universe of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series – but this doesn’t feel an essential pre-read based on contentįrey and Rafi are inseparable…two edges of the same knife. I would like to thank Mary from Scholastic for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review ![]()
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