12. The Different Girl - Gordon Dahlquist

Dutton Books, 2013
231 pgs.

Written for Middle & Ya

Finished: 3-21-13

Genre: Fantasy

Goodreads Rating: 3.10

My Rating: 1.5 I actually didn't like it very much

Acquired: TPPL

First sentence/s  "My name is Veronika.  We had been there for years, but I only remember things from part of that time.  Living on the island was like that, because it seemed to be always bright, and always hot, and every day passed like the day before.

Veronika, Caroline, Isobel, Eleanor.  Their caretakers, Irene and Robbert.  And then came May....

My comments:  This book had so many possibilities - but I don't think it quite hit the mark. Why so much "mystery" ... mystery that went unexplained ... and the ending was way too abrupt and nether-worldly....

Goodreads: Four nearly identical girls on a desert island. An unexpected new arrival. A gently warped near future where nothing is quite as it seems.One blond, one brunette, one redhead, one with hair black as tar. Four otherwise identical girls who spend their days in sync, tasked to learn. But when May, a very different kind of girl—the lone survivor of a recent shipwreck—suddenly and mysteriously arrives on the island, an unsettling mirror is about to be held up to the life the girls have never before questioned. Sly and unsettling, Gordon Dahlquist’s timeless and evocative storytelling blurs the lines between contemporary and sci-fi with a story that is sure to linger in readers’ minds long after the final page has been turned.