Imposters by Scott Westerfeld - ESSENTIAL

Imposters by Scott Westerfeld, 416 pages.  Scholastic Press, September 2018.  $19

Language: G (4 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG (fighting training)

BUYING ADVISORY:  HS, MS - ESSENTIAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

Welcome back to the world of the Pretties.  Frey’s destiny is to be her sister’s body double.  Except for her father, less than a handful of people know she exists.  Her job is to go into all of the dangerous situations.  That’s why when Frey is offered as a hostage to another country, she knows that her father has no intention of keeping any promises he made – Frey is the expendable one. But what happens when Frey starts to realize that there is a whole world out there besides being her sister’s shadow. That her father has always been an evil, sadistic man who cares not a wit for the younger twin?  How can Frey carve out a life for herself?  Since Tally Youngblood brought down the Pretty system, the world has become more rawer, but also more free.

You will have to number this #5 in the series, because you have to have read the others first to truly appreciate where this world started from, but clear some shelf space, because there is no way this is the last of Westerfeld’s new books.

Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS