And those who don’t respond to the vaccinations? Well…I’ll just let you read it for yourself. Soul-mates are ripped apart through forced vaccinations. The souls know each other intimately, they can speak to each other with just a thought, and both have the same definitive motor skills over the body they share.īut what if the government decided that hybrids were not a viable way to live? What if the government forced one soul to disappear – forever? That’s how the Americas deal with hybrids in What’s Left of Me.

In Zhang’s dystopian world of the Americas, people are hybrids two souls – I hesitate to call them twin souls, since each soul is very different – exist in every physical body. What’s left of me after I’ve turned the last page? I’m still not sure. Read moreĪmazing concept, story-telling and a killer plot, Kat Zhang has created quite the page turner. If the summary sounds good to you and it's something you feel in the mood for, I definitely recommend it. Like I mentioned before, I don't think I can do this book the justice it actually deserves, only because of the circumstances surrounding my reading of it. Surprisingly, it was the last chapter that hooked me and ensured that I'll be reading the next book in the series.

I stayed curious about and interested in everything going on. Whereas I didn't connect with the characters, I still enjoyed the storyline. For me, this didn't detract from the story though. The closest I came to it was with Eva (who's point-of-view the story was told in). The story is original and Kat Zhang's writing style is wonderful, but I did not find myself connecting with the characters. There's not as much set-up as there is in a lot of other books in the genre and we are able to get directly into the story a lot sooner. However, I can see where this would be refreshing for some readers. Unfortunately, information about this world was given only on an as needed basis. I found myself very curious about the world it was taking place in and wanting to learn more. To be honest, the setting of the book almost had me more interested than the actual story itself. The whole premise is very different from anything else I've read in the same genre this year and Kat Zhang does a very good job with it. However, I honestly feel that if I would have picked up What's Left of Me before my current contemporary addiction, I would have really loved it. I had also just filled my e-reader with a ton of fantastic looking new adult contemporaries that I'm super anxious to break into! All of those factors combined, I felt rushed and forced to get through this book and was never quite able to get fully immersed into the story. When What's Left of Me came in for me at the library after being on hold for weeks, I new I had to read it now or risk never giving it a chance again.

I've been on a huge contemporary, mainly new adult contemporary, binge lately and I can't get enough. This was a case of a good book but at a bad time.

What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang